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What the critics wrote.

Five seasons of Commonwealth Lyric Theater productions, as they were reviewed in The Boston Globe, on WBUR and in The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Every headline below links straight to the publisher.

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Selected coverage

Reviewed in Boston

From Rachmaninoff’s Aleko in Brighton to Rubinstein’s Demon at the Majestic — the notices, newest first.

Olga Maturana
The Intelligencer

Essential Demon Beckons

by Jeffrey Gantz

19 May 2017Read more
CLT
Irina Danilova
WBUR

A ‘Demon’ In Boston — Commonwealth Lyric Theater Stages Anton Rubinstein’s Russian Classic

by Lloyd Schwartz · The ARTery

16 May 2017Read more
WBUR

What Struck A Chord On The Classical Scene

by Lloyd Schwartz · The ARTery

28 Dec 2016Read more
CLT
Irina Danilova
The Boston Globe

Mussorgsky’s Russian epic, compact but potent in Newton

by Jeremy Eichler

27 May 2016Read more
CLT
The Boston Globe

A ‘Cossack’ from far beyond the Danube

by Jeremy Eichler

15 May 2015Read more
CLT
The Boston Globe

‘Mozart and Salieri’ triumphs in Brighton

by Jeffrey Gantz

9 Jun 2014Read more
CLT
The Boston Globe

Rachmaninoff’s ‘Aleko’ runs free in Brighton

by Jeffrey Gantz

10 Jun 2013Read more
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Where we’ve appeared

Three newsrooms, five seasons

The Boston GlobeWBUR · The ARTeryThe Boston Musical Intelligencer
Features7reviews and round-ups
Outlets3Boston newsrooms
Span2013–17seasons covered
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We are glad to arrange interviews with the artistic team, rehearsal access, house seats for reviewers and high-resolution production photography. Please give us as much notice as the run allows.

Company
Commonwealth Lyric Theater · Boston, Massachusetts
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Fast facts

The company, in brief

Founded
A decade ago, by Alexander Prokhorov-Tolstoy
Status
Boston 501(c)(3) non-profit opera company
Repertoire
Eastern European opera beside the Western classics
Honours
First place three times, National Opera Association
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What we collect

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