Events

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Master Class: Stephen Powell, Baritone
Friday, February 3, 2023 - 3:00pm
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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The Boston Conservatory Voice/Opera Department will host a master class presented by Grammy Award-winning baritone Stephen Powell.

Admission
FREE
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Moment's Notice: A Multidisciplinary Salon
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 8:00pm
Studio 401
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 4—Studio 401
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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This interdisciplinary performance series illuminates the art of improvisation and live time creation. The works presented celebrate experimental territories, ephemeral natures, and margins taking center, through dance, song, theater, music, poetry, and visual art.

Admission
FREE
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The Island of Tulipatan
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 8:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This 1868 satirical opera by Jacques Offenbach is a subversive piece questioning gender assignment and gender norms.

Admission
$15–$30
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As One
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 8:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This riveting and heart-warming chamber opera is a transgender coming-of-age story composed by Laura Kaminsky with a libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed. Audience talkbacks with the creative team will follow each performance. 

Admission
$15-$30
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The Island of Tulipatan
Saturday, February 11, 2023 - 8:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This 1868 satirical opera by Jacques Offenbach is a subversive piece questioning gender assignment and gender norms.

Admission
$15–$30
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As One
Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 2:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This riveting and heart-warming chamber opera is a transgender coming-of-age story composed by Laura Kaminsky with a libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed. Audience talkbacks with the creative team will follow each performance. 

Admission
$15-$30
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Studio Recital: Rebecca Folsom Classical Voice Studio
Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 2:00pm
Houston Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 1
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Students of Rebecca Folsom’s classical voice studio perform a selection of art songs and arias.

Admission
FREE
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First-Year Voice Recital: In the Bleak Midwinter
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 8:00pm
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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First-year Boston Conservatory voice performance students perform English art songs with texts by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan poets to brighten the wintry mood.

Admission
FREE
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Robert Honeysucker Memorial Concert: An Evening of Spirituals
Saturday, February 25, 2023 - 8:00pm
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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The Black Student Association presents a concert of spirituals in celebration of Black History Month and in memory of former Boston Conservatory voice faculty member Robert Honeysucker.

Admission
FREE
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Class Recital: M.M. Vocal Pedagogy
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 8:00pm
Houston Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 1
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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The M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy students present a recital.

Admission
FREE

Past Events

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Opera Innovators Series: Nina Yoshida Nelsen
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 3:00pm
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Mezzo-soprano and Asian Opera Alliance founder Nina Yoshida Nelsen shares her personal journey and ways to foster constructive dialogue that seeks to explore culturally sensitive, inclusive, and responsive practices in the field of opera.

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Studio Recital: Vocal/Piano Duo—Music of Spain and the Americas
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 10:30am
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Students of Scott Nicholas’s Vocal/Piano Duo: Music of Spain and the Americas studio will be performing a vocal recital of select repertoire learned in class this semester.

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Student Recital: Tianming Qi, Voice
Friday, December 9, 2022 - 8:30pm
Houston Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 1
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Tianming Qi (M.M. '22) presents a recital of songs performed in five languages: German, French, Italian, Chinese, and English.

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Opera Innovators Series: Karen Slack
Friday, December 9, 2022 - 3:00pm
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Metropolitan Opera Soprano Karen Slack presents a master class to Boston Conservatory students and members of Boston Lyric Opera’s Emerging Young Artist Program. Slack, who serves as codirector of Canada’s Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, has been hailed not only for “possessing a voice of extraordinary beauty,” but for her ability to create thoughtful reimagined programming.

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Susannah
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 2:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This award-winning opera in two acts by American composer Carlisle Floyd tells the story of an innocent girl who is targeted as a sinner in the small mountain town of New Hope Valley, Tennessee. Sung in English with English supertitles.

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Studio Recital: William Cotten Voice Studio
Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 8:00pm
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Students of William Cotten’s voice studio perform selections from musical theater, contemporary pop, standard, and jazz repertoire.

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Susannah
Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 8:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This award-winning opera in two acts by American composer Carlisle Floyd tells the story of an innocent girl who is targeted as a sinner in the small mountain town of New Hope Valley, Tennessee. Sung in English with English supertitles.

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Susannah
Friday, December 2, 2022 - 8:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This award-winning opera in two acts by American composer Carlisle Floyd tells the story of an innocent girl who is targeted as a sinner in the small mountain town of New Hope Valley, Tennessee. Sung in English with English supertitles.

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Susannah
Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 8:00pm
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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This award-winning opera in two acts by American composer Carlisle Floyd tells the story of an innocent girl who is targeted as a sinner in the small mountain town of New Hope Valley, Tennessee. Sung in English with English supertitles.

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Studio Recital: Marilyn Bulli Classical Voice and Musical Theater Voice Studios
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 8:00pm
Houston Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 1
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Students of Marilyn Bulli's classical voice and musical theater studios perform musical theater and classical repertoire.