A grand monument to tradition, done grandly (and traditionally)
Celeste Fraser and John Irvin as Blanche and her brother.Right now is a very good time for opera in the Hub. I just got back from a truly hilarious operatic satire at Boston Lyric, The Inspector, which made for quite the contrast with Dialogues of the Carmelites, Francis Poulenc's intense investigation of the spiritual, which I caught on Thursday at the Boston University Opera Institute - in a solid, very movin…