Upcoming Concerts & Performances
7 upcoming concerts and performances from Boston Lyric Opera, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Fri Oct 16 · 5:30pm
BLO's 50th-anniversary gala at its Fort Point studios culminates in a performance by Michael Fabiano, one of the leading American tenors of his generation. It is a fundraising evening with gala pricing — but also the only chance to hear Fabiano in Boston this season.
Nov 5–6/8
Thu Nov 5 · 7:30pm / Fri Nov 6 · 7:30pm / Sun Nov 8 · 3pm
André Previn's operatic setting of Tennessee Williams's play: the self-deluding Blanche DuBois takes shelter with her sister Stella and the brutish Stanley, and unravels. Daniela Candillari conducts and Patricia Racette directs, with Brittany Renee, Angela Yam, Thomas Glass and Brenton Ryan in the cast.
Mar 12/14/19/21
Fri Mar 12 · 7:30pm / Sun Mar 14 · 3pm / Fri Mar 19 · 7:30pm / Sun Mar 21 · 3pm
Mozart and Da Ponte's comedy of one wedding day: Figaro and Susanna outmanoeuvring the philandering Count, the farce laid over a sharp critique of aristocratic privilege. David Angus conducts and Anne Bogart directs, with Michael Sumuel, Madison Leonard and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, a highlight of BLO's fiftieth season.
Fri Apr 16 · 8:00pm
The tenor Lawrence Brownlee and the coloratura soprano Erin Morley sing nineteenth-century French and Italian opera arias drawn from Golden Age, the album they recorded together in 2025. Both are Metropolitan Opera regulars; Brownlee sang the title role in BLO's Mitridate in 2024 and made an early debut with the company as Almaviva in 2002. Co-presented with Vivo Performing Arts.
Sat May 8 · 2:00pm
Boston Lyric Opera's community opera project puts Bostonians who answered its story-gathering call on the Symphony Hall stage beside the company's professional artists — a participatory new work assembled from the city's own stories, and the community-facing capstone of BLO's 50th-anniversary season programming.
Wed Jun 2 · 7:30pm
The soprano Nadine Sierra sings Puccini and Bellini alongside Neapolitan song and Latin American repertoire by Ponce, Turina and Villa-Lobos, with the Metropolitan Opera assistant conductor Bryan Wagorn at the piano. Sierra has sung at the Met, La Scala, the Paris Opera and the Staatsoper Berlin; she was BLO's Gilda in 2014 and its Tytania in 2011. Co-presented with Vivo Performing Arts.
Thu Jun 17 – Sun Jun 20
Thu Jun 17 · 7:30pm / Fri Jun 18 · 7:30pm / Sat Jun 19 · 7:30pm / Sun Jun 20 · 5pm
Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre, a song cycle staged as opera and sung by Ailyn Pérez in Ladino, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, Sardinian and English, reaching for the moment before Muslim, Jewish and Christian Spain came apart. A new BLO production with the company's orchestra.
