{"id":1450,"date":"2011-03-01T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/02\/27\/1450\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:10:37","slug":"1450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/03\/01\/1450\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera&#8217;s Composer, Stephen Paulus, Lauds BU&#8217;s The Postman Always Rings Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2011\/02\/1252075-postman-020311.jpg\" alt=\"1252075-postman-020311\" width=\"204\" height=\"231\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/\">Boston University College of Fine Arts<\/a> presented Stephen Paulus\u2019s <em>The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/em>, this past week on the mainstage of the Boston University Theatre. The opera featured conductor <strong>William Lumpkin<\/strong>, stage director <strong>Jim Petosa<\/strong>,\u00a0singers from the School of Music Opera Institute and vocal program, and accompaniment by the BU Chamber Orchestra, with production design by students from the School of Theatre. <strong>Colin Graham\u2019s<\/strong> libretto was sung in English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am grateful to Stephen Paulus for spending time with our students. \u00a0I know that he was very happy with the results, <em>placing it above professional productions of the opera<\/em>. \u00a0I look forward to having\u00a0 him work with our students in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations to all of those who worked on this collaboration between the School of Music and the School of Theatre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/2011\/01\/31\/cfa-presents-stephen-pauluss-opera-the-postman-always-rings-twice\/\">See <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/2011\/01\/31\/cfa-presents-stephen-pauluss-opera-the-postman-always-rings-twice\/\">BU Today<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/2011\/01\/31\/cfa-presents-stephen-pauluss-opera-the-postman-always-rings-twice\/\"> article including video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University College of Fine Arts presented Stephen Paulus\u2019s The Postman Always Rings Twice, this past week on the mainstage of the Boston University Theatre. The opera featured conductor William Lumpkin, stage director Jim Petosa,\u00a0singers from the School of Music Opera Institute and vocal program, and accompaniment by the BU Chamber Orchestra, with production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5094,4299,5091,5093,5092],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}