The Eleanors

Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre present The Eleanors as part of the 2025 Fringe Festival, from October 10 – 12, 2025 in Studio ONE. Tickets available soon.

Jodi Goble, composer and librettist • Michael Ching, co-librettist • Matthew Larson, music director • Edward Sturm (CFA’24), stage director

The Eleanors is a 90-minute chamber opera set in the final year of World War II. Newlywed nurse Maxie turns to her friends Lilian and Ramona for support when her husband Cal is captured during the Battle of the Bulge and imprisoned. Lyrical, funny, high energy, heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Eleanors is infused throughout with musical influences from swing and American Songbook.