November 18, 2016 8:00pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
By Lowell Liebermann
Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde
BOSTON PREMIERE
A semi-staged opera in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Sung in English
Wilde Opera Nights season sponsored by Randolph J. Fuller
A handsome, naïve young man is offered perpetual youth and immunity to life’s cruelty, for a price…
Join us in a shadowy world of debauchery and deals with the devil as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera team up for a semi-staged production of Lowell Liebermann’s opera The Picture of Dorian Gray. Based on Oscar Wilde’s immortal novel of the same name, this performance marks the first installment of Odyssey Opera’s 2016-17 season of “Wilde opera nights,” channeling the dynamic work and world of the famous Irish author, playwright, and wit.
Liebermann’s taut and evocative score provides the perfect setting for a venture into the dark corners of the human psyche. The virtuosic musicians of BMOP and a host of top-notch singers provide the action.
“This is proof that…opera can certainly flourish in Boston.”
–EDGE
Cast and Creative
Jon Jurgens
DORIAN GRAY
Matthew Curran
BASIL HALLWARD
Thomas Meglioranza
LORD HENRY WOTTON
Deborah Selig
SIBYL VANE
David Kravitz
JAMES VANE
Claudia Waite
WHORE
Frank Kelley
LORD GEOFFREY
Jeremy Ayres Fisher
GAMEKEEPER
Gil Rose
CONDUCTOR
PRODUCTION TEAM
Brooke Stanton…Costume Designer
Rachel Padula-Shufelt…Hair and Make-up Designer
