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📍Boston area concert-goer • Classical music & Opera 🎶• Parent to the Kid • #operasquad • #BSOsquad • she/her • MD in a previous life
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · Sep 10
Fall 2025 #OperaInBoston listings

1. Sept 19 & 21, 2025
Elisabet Curbelo's Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible presented by Guerrilla Opera at BCA Plaza Theater
guerillaopera.org/eventcal/202...
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible — Guerilla Opera
TICKETS NOW ON SALE NOW at Boston Theatre Scene Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible is a boundary-breaking, interdisciplinary opera by Elisabet Curbelo, developed and produced by Guerilla Oper...
guerillaopera.org
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 10h
Today's Macbeth is my 5th Macbeth in 22 years! Previously 4 were
Opera Company of Philadelphia (2003)
Dallas Opera (2007)
Boston Lyric Opera (2011)
The Met (2012)
Program book of Macbeth at Opera Company of Philadelphia opened to cast page plus ticket stub Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor Gregg Baker Banquo, a Scottish General Eric Owens Lady Macbeth Lauren Flanigan* Program book of Macbeth at Dallas Opera opened to cast page plus ticket stub Macbeth, a General Alberto Gazale** Banquo, a General Eric Halfvarson Lady Macbeth, Macbeth's wife Tatiana Serjan** Macbeth's servant John Bates Macduff, Lord of Fife Brandon Jovanovich Program book of Macbeth at Boston Lyric Opera opened to cast page Macbeth Daniel Sutin* Banquo Darren K. Stokes Lady Macbeth Carter Scott* Program book of Macbeth at Boston Lyric Opera opened to cast page plus ticket stub Macbeth Thomas Hampson Banquo Günther Groissböck Lady Macbeth Nadja Michael
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 11h
BTW the week after we are getting a rush it a-list pianists! Yunchan Lim on 10/22, Yuja 10/23-25, Trifonov 10/24. Plus this pianist whom I've never heard of but apparently well-known?
www.tixtree.com/e/konstantin...
Tixtree
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 12h
Gabriella Ortiz's Kauyumari is a new-to-me piece and Kendall Sq Orch did a great job with it. I haven't been to any BU opera institute shows in recent years so it's always a delight to hear and see the student singers. And Macbeth overall is pretty good! Supporting singers >> lead soloists
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 12h
Saul was pretty enjoyable ! 3 hours went by pretty fast. Love Sasha Cooke singing Songs of a Wayfarer with the Boston symphony chamber players. That was a real highlight. Missa solemnis was fine given such a great cast of soloist
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 12h
October #concert-athon

Show No. 7 with my kid!

Verdi's Macbeth @bostonlyricopera.bsky.social with Garrett, Lobianco, Junghoon Kim, Zaikuan Song, Najmi; conducted by David Angus

My kid's first real opera and he said he liked it! #parentingwin
Hand holding Macbeth program book Program book opened to Creative Team page Curtain call of Macbeth with stage full of singers in period garb; stage with white walls and some leafless trees Same group of musicians on stage taking a bow
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 1d
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/a...
BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus run a gantlet with Beethoven’s ‘Missa solemnis’ - The Boston Globe
The chorus deserves extra flowers for an explosive peformance.
www.bostonglobe.com
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 1d
October #concert-athon

Solo outing tonight for Show No.6

Chamber opera The Eleanors by Jodi Goble and Michael Ching, at Boston University Opera Institute Fringe Festival. My first time back at BUOI fringe fest since pre-pandemic. Directed by Edward Strum; conducted by David Scott
Hand holding program leaflet for The Eleanors 7 singers + conductor holding hands facing the audience for applause. The set is 1940s ice cream parlor with red and white checkered floors and neon sign that says Leopold's facing backwards.
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 1d
I'm just happy I live in greater Boston area; currently on a (very full) city bus and I see tons of people walking on the streets at 9:20pm.
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 1d
Had a text convo with a friend about a neighborhood bakery near me. Friend complains there's no parking *at* the bakery when there are literally lots of street parking within 2 blocks. Just never occurred to them that they can walk > 1 block ...
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 1d
It's the closest to my house and o can only stomach going there once every 3 months to stock up.

And if they don't have the item I want in stock then I'm SOL for another 3 months 😭
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 2d
In my house it's me nagging him for 3 weeks for a 3 minute chore
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 2d
I don't know how KFV managed to sound so bright and youthful still!
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 2d
Nice photo there 😁
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 2d
October #concert-athon

2-show day today. This evening

Show No. 5 with the fam for Kendall Square Orchestra playing Gabriella Ortiz's Kauyumari, Brahms double concerto, and Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, led by @kristokonducts.bsky.social
Hand holding cover or K2O program book Hand holding program book opened to today's concert program Orchestra on stage with Brahms double concerto soloists Full orchestra on stage with conductor Kristo Kondakçi
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 2d
October #concert-athon

Show No.4 with
@mountmccabe.bsky.social

Boston Symphony Orchestra performing Missa Solemnis, with soloists Eleanor Lyons, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Klaus Florian Vogt, Franz-Josef Selig. Led by Andris Nelsons.

Part of #SymphonyHall125 celebration
Hand holding program book opened to today's concert program page Symphony hall stage full of musicians including orchestra members, Tanglewood festival chorus, 4 soloists and Andris Nelsons
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 3d
Hope your plants survived? We covered a couple but seems like the temps didn't go as low as predicted. I would love to see more of these blooms for another week or more
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 3d
What a lovely story by @knitandlisten.bsky.social. If you are around in Boston this weekend, go check this out
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Sue Veal @sueveal.bsky.social · 3d
Arts critic Richard Dyer’s record collection offered to the public!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/a...
Critic Richard Dyer’s final gift to the Boston music community: an astounding library of records - The Boston Globe
Dyer’s nephew, who is managing the estate, is offering the collection for sale this weekend.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Sue Veal @sueveal.bsky.social · 3d
Arts critic Richard Dyer’s record collection offered to the public!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/a...
Critic Richard Dyer’s final gift to the Boston music community: an astounding library of records - The Boston Globe
Dyer’s nephew, who is managing the estate, is offering the collection for sale this weekend.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 4d
Surprised by yet more changes being made (chopped down) at the Kennedy Center, this time on the lower terrace
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 3d
Off SM for 5 hours to spend time with old friends and their family: shared a delicious lunch, laughed a lot, and saw some fall foliage

Highly recommend 🍂🎃💦🛞

Also, do not recommend coming home to doomscroll
Beautiful fall day in New England with blue skies, trees with orange foliage, a wooden wagon filled with pumpkins and wooden signs that say "MUMS" and "LOCAL HONEY" A stone building with a large red waterwheel on its outside wall, and a waterfall in the back of the building. You can see fall foliage and blue skies in the background
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 5d
Gourd morning Laura 🎃
Half dozen pumpkins in yellow and orange lined up on a wood block Closeup of a "warty" pumpkin with green bumps on its surface
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 5d
October 7 #homegrown garden update. Last warm day of the season (81F!) ahead of rainstorm tomorrow. Slight chance of frost Friday morning, hopefully the plants will survive

Yes lots of dahlias & zinnias!

(Looking to buying a few new dahlia varieties for next season, suggestions?)

#bloomscrolling
3 vases of dahlias- 2 varieties. One small deep burgundy and one medium white with fuschia petal tips A tabletop with multiple vases of mostly cut dahlias, plus a few orange and pink zinnias A vase filled with zinnias of various shades from yellow to orange, and light pink to dark pink
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yuegozy.bsky.social @yuegozy.bsky.social · 5d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...
Did a Single Generation Ruin Modern Music for Everyone Else?
www.nytimes.com
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 5d
Exactly how I feel about Nelsons's conducting most of the time
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y2000k @y2000k.bsky.social · 6d
The large one is commercial, the mini ones are the ones she made. Regardless she's an amazing cook and can make all sorts of things from scratch that I would never consider doing so myself!
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