Four friends and I went to the Boston Lyric Opera‘s Barber of Seville last night. It is a fantastic experience that compares very favorably to anything in New York City. One nice thing about the BLO is that the production is in a theater closer in size to the venues for which Rossini wrote. The Metropolitan Opera is wonderful, but the theater is so large that I often feel that I would have gotten a better view staying home and watching on television. Also, the singers have to work a lot harder to be heard adequately in such a large space. The show closes on March 18th (Saturday night), so hurry to get tickets!