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Music

Can Missy Mazzoli Help Reinvent Opera in America?

March 25, 2025

Photo: CFA senior Chris Ellars, a young white man wearing a traditional navy kimono, smiles for a photo.

Theatre

CFA Senior’s Thesis Blends Traditional Japanese Noh Theater with Western Opera

February 18, 2025

Photo: A female and male student practicing for a play. The woman, on the left, is standing with her arms raised towards the male student sitting at a table to her right.

Theatre

Innovation Takes the Stage at 28th Annual CFA Fringe Festival

October 2, 2024

Photo: A bright sunny day with people walking about on a street lined with white tents for a market.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: September 19 to 22

September 18, 2024

Photo: A picture of people holding up trash bags with items in them

Weekender

The Weekender: April 18 to 21

April 17, 2024

Photo: A woman in an elegant shirt with long dark hair sitting on a blue couch

Opera

BU Alum Nina Yoshida Nelsen (CFA’01,’03) Named Artistic Director of Boston Lyric Opera

March 1, 2024

Photo: A woman in a blue dress next to a woman in a red shirt who appears to be yelling performs in front of a room of students watching from chairs in the background

Theatre

All the World’s a Stage at 27th Annual CFA Fringe Festival

October 12, 2023

Photo: A man dressed in an intricate royal clown costume holds a sword drawn towards a person laying on the ground, as onlookers in white gowns gasp. The scene is part of an opera called Rigoletto

Opera

CFA Costume Designers Help Swedish Company Stitch Together a New Rigoletto

July 28, 2023

Photo: Grace Bumbry, a Black woman with short gray hair, wears a purple balzer and blouse with a scarf draped over her left side. On her right lapel, a silver brooch. She smiles to the left, big and bright,

Tributes

Grace Bumbry (CFA’55) Broke Barriers, Rose to International Stardom in Opera

May 13, 2023

Andrew Bearden Brown (CFA’22) plays the Stage Manager in Our Town, an opera based on Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning play, one of this year’s Fringe Festival offerings. Our Town runs Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29, in the CFA Concert Hall. Photo by Cydney Scott

Arts & Culture

Curtains Open on 2022 CFA Fringe Festival

October 20, 2022

Photo of Yunus Akbas playing Guglielmo as he rehearses the Opera Institute’s Cosi fan tutte at the Tsai Performing Arts Center. On stage, a man with a stern facial expression and wearing a red face mask stands with arms splayed out to his sides and a person behind him helps hi put on a black jacket. Various people wearing masks behind him look out to the crowd with questioning and gossiping looks on their faces.

Watch Now

Mozart’s Classic Così fan tutte on Stage at Tsai Performance Center

April 20, 2022

Photo taken from behind James Burton, Director of Orchestral Activities and Master Lecturer, Music during

College of Fine Arts

School of Music’s 150th Anniversary Opens on a Big Stage

April 4, 2022

Photo of Missy Mazzoli, a white women with long brown hair. She wears a brown dress and is caught mid-turn on a roof with artistic graffiti covering it's walls. A city scene can be seen in the distance.

Classical Music

Opening Doors: Missy Mazzoli (CFA’02)

March 10, 2022

Danielle Pribyl (left) (CFA’22) and Alexis Peart (CFA’23) in a scene from Proving Up; both women blow on harmonicas and look off into the distance.

Theatre

CFA Kicks Off 25th Fringe Festival Today

October 15, 2021

Emilie Faiella, Julia Wolcott, Megan Callahan, and Dongwhi Baek, act out a scene during a dress rehearsal of Stephen King's, Dolores Claiborne adapted into an opera by Tobias Picker.

Arts & Culture

CFA Tackles Tobias Picker Opera Based on a Stephen King Novel

February 19, 2019

Actresses in Unmentionables

Theatre

CFA’s Annual Fringe Festival Offers Sex, Picasso, and Verdi

October 12, 2018

Odyssey Opera performs Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta

Opera

Odyssey Opera Stages Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta

June 2, 2017

CFA students on stage performing Le nozze di Figaro

Arts on Campus

Le nozze di Figaro, “the Perfect Opera,” at the BU Theatre This Weekend

April 20, 2017

Opera bass vocalist Morris Robinson poses for a portrait in a theatre

Alumni

Taking on Porgy

November 28, 2016

Odyssey Opera Lucio Silla Boston University Theatre

BU Theatre

Odyssey Opera Stages Mozart’s Lucio Silla at BU Theatre

June 8, 2016

Odyssey Opera Stages Mozart’s Lucio Silla at BU Theatre