PRICE: Tickets at https://blo.org/burke-hare/
Edinburgh, 1828. The city’s world-renowned anatomy schools suffer from a cadaver shortage. Two industrious men—William Burke and William Hare—find lucrative work by murdering disenfranchised citizens and selling their corpses to Dr. Knox’s academy. Brutally funny and highly theatrical, irreverent and fast-paced, this chamber opera is based on real events.
This world premiere opera will be performed at Boston Center for the Arts' Cyclorama building.
Image: (l.-r.) William Hare (Craig Colclough), his wife Margaret (Heather Gallagher), Helen McDougal (Michelle Trainor) and her lover William Burke (Jesse Blumberg) contemplate a better life through nefarious means in Boston Lyric Opera’s world premiere production of THE NEFARIOUS, IMMORAL BUT HIGHLY PROFITABLE ENTERPRISE of MR. BURKE and MR. HARE by composer Julian Grant and librettist Mark Campbell. Runs Nov 8-12; details at BLO.org. Photo: Liza Voll.
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f Edinburgh
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popular school of anatomy in Boston Lyric Opera
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s world premiere production of THE
NEFARIOUS, IMMORAL BUT HIGHLY PROFITABLE ENTERPRISE of MR. BURKE and MR. H
ARE by
composer Julian Grant and librettist Mark Campbell. Runs Nov
8-12; details at BLO.org.