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Bringing Music Back to Life in Boulder Opera's Family Show: L'Enfant et les Sortiléges | Press Release

On Sunday afternoon March 7, 2021, The Boulder Opera Company of Colorado presented Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro to audiences in the theater and online. The Boulder company is tiny, but I thought it would be interesting to see what they could do. Stage Director Michael Travis Risner set the time in the present and provided doors, potted trees, a table with a side chair, an armchair, and a few props for his setting. It fit the list of bare necessities required by the story and allowed the cast to provide considerable amusement throughout Risner's production. Although the production was mini...

The Marriage of Figaro will also be livestreamed. The production will be run under the standard set of COVID-19 safety guidelines. Because the garage door opens and the stage is far from the crowd, singers will be allowed to remove their masks. Figaro is a highly physical opera with broad comedy and lots of contact between the actors, making adapting it to COVID times somewhat difficult. "With Figaro, the challenge for me is to take a show that is intimate, farcical, and do that without a lot of physical touch," says Risner. Avoiding touch isn't the only challenge during the pandemic, of co...

The Beginning of the End As February bled into March, COVID-19 started making headlines in Colorado, but nobody had any idea how bad things would get. On March 12, concert-promotion giants Live Nation and AEG suspended tours through April (Post Malone managed to squeeze in one last show); over the next few weeks, those concerts were all canceled or pushed to the fall and, ultimately, 2021. Workers were laid off, musicians canceled tours, fans mourned their lost summer plans. A few venues like the Lion’s Lair shut down early of their own volition, but soon the State of Colorado issued a stay...