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Shameless self-promotion: come see your editors sing an opera!

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We interrupt our regularly-scheduled witty and incisive political commentary to bring you the following special announcement:

Two-thirds of BMG’s editors are singing lead roles in Igor Stravinsky’s brilliant opera The Rake’s Progress.  Charley sings the role of the rakish Tom Rakewell, and I am singing Nick Shadow, who is actually the devil in disguise.

The performance is at 7:30 pm this Saturday evening, April 16, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston.  Tickets are available here or at the door, and range from $25-$65, with a special student rate of $10.  There’s also a deal available for a pre-concert dinner at the Taj Boston next door.

The Globe did a piece on the performance today.

The Rake’s Progress is a really wonderful opera, and we are all very excited about this performance.  It would be great to see some BMGers there, so we hope you can join us!

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  1. Ah well. I guess we’ll have to sing to an empty house. (Again.)

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    p>At least no one will know if we miss a few notes.

  2. …but if you want to sell tickets, you do need Bob to sing…not to compare Bob to Charlie Sheen, but it does sell tickets.

  3. Bravissimi tutti!

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    p>David/Nick Shadow had a great time corrupting Charley/Tom Rakewell, who kept changing his mind about whether he liked being corrupted or not.  Two magnificent voices in a splendid cast!

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    p>Standing ovation from packed house, including me!

    • The leads offered superlative singing. … Tenor Charles Blandy was a terrific match for the part of Tom Rakewell, unfailingly, tirelessly lyrical. As Nick Shadow, baritone David Kravitz was sonorously fine, a powerful gunmetal voice with a sardonic polish around the edges. Their characterizations were crisp: … Kravitz giving Shadow’s lines a hint of mirthful color, bemused at his quarry’s fecklessness. Blandy’s Tom was both naïf and willing victim, ruing his own callowness while indulging the temptation to hide behind it.

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