Boston Lyric Opera Company Inc

Programs: Core opera productionsboston lyric opera company (blo)is a massachusetts nonprofit institution incorporated in 1976. Blo is new england's largest and longest established opera company. Celebrated for its artistic excellence and diverse repertoire, blo's mission is to build curiosity, enthusiasm and support for opera by creating musically and theatrically compelling productions, events, and educational resources for the boston community and beyond. Blo's long-term success is rooted in its commitment to offering the highest caliber productions of both classic and contemporary operas; providing an internationally renowned platform on which emerging artists can grow and develop; engaging new and diverse audiences through innovations in technology, ourteach and strategic communications; and by offering collaborative education and community events both on its own and in partnership with other world-leading, boston-based cultural institions. Through the whole of its efforts, blo achieves its mission by ensuring the availability and accessibility of one of the world's greatest and oldest art forms for generation to come. Blo reaches annual audiences of more than 20,000 people through the staging of four productions and community outreach programs each season. In fiscal year 2018, blo staged its four productions at the emerson/cutler majestic emerson/paramount theater, the cyclorama at the boston center for the arts, the huntigton theatre and the dcr steriti memorial rink.

boston lyric opera's education and community programs are central to blo's mission of engaging new and diverse audiences in the living art of opera. Blo's programs provide valuable learning and curriculum resources for teachers at all levels; engage families, young adults and underrepresented groups; and create linkages with other vital art forms, including theater, classical music, dance, the visual arts and beyond. Through educational programs and partnership programs blo collaborates across a broad spectrum to take opera deeper into the fabric of the local community and beyond.