Name: The Eleanors
Start: 2025-10-10T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Boston University College of Fine Arts

Presented by BU Opera Institute & School of Theatre
October 10 – 12, 2025
Studio ONE
Jodi Goble, composer and librettist
Michael Ching, co-librettist
Matthew Larson, music director
Edward Sturm (CFA’24), stage director
The Eleanors is a 90-minute chamber opera set in the final year of World War II. Newlywed nurse Maxie turns to her friends Lilian and Ramona for support when her husband Cal is captured during the Battle of the Bulge and imprisoned. Lyrical, funny, high energy, heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Eleanors is infused throughout with musical influences from swing and American Songbook.