Many opera companies have mounted shows in nontraditional venues, but Boston Lyric Opera seems to bring the ambiance of an opera house into community spaces. The company presented its sixth annual Opera Annex production on Nov. 19 at Temple Ohabei Shalom, a staging of Frank Martin’s The Love Potion (Le vin herbé).
How Twenty-Somethings Might Listen
On an evening last spring, a small audience filling a Somerville living room listened to a young cellist and pianist perform Schubert. Everyone present had been rounded up by Samuel Bodkin, the 23-year-old founder of Groupmuse.
For the Adventurous
The Callithumpian Consort brought three recent works by Lei Liang to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Thursday night in addition to pieces by Xiaoyong Chen and Luigi Nono. The program was entitled “Avant Gardner,” and no matter how playfully intended, that probably didn’t convince many of the museum’s less adventurous concertgoers to show up. Nonetheless two balconies worth of new-music...