The MBTA announced Monday it has reduced its projected deficit for fiscal 2017 by 45 percent, a $104 million reduction in the anticipated budget hole.
The transit agency said reduced operating expenses accounts for 75 percent of the reduction while increased revenues in real estate and advertising makes up the rest.
Clever choreography and intelligent dancing told the tale of a fiery romance last Thursday at the Boston Opera House. Boston's lead dancers left the audience breathless when the curtain closed on opening night of Boston Ballet's latest production, John Cranko's Onegin. Cranko's 1965 creation transformed Alexander Pushkin's 19th-century narrative poem, Eugene Onegin, into a dramatic ballet set to the music of Tchaikovsky.
The opening scene of the ballet is a lush Russian countryside. Bubbly Olga (Principal Ashley Ellis) gossips with her mother and nurse about men and frilly dresses, while her sister Tatiana's (Principal Petra Conti) undivided attention is devoted to books. But when the worldly gentleman Onegin (Principal Lasha Khozashvili) visits their home, Tatiana is entranced by the mysterious and handsome man, whom she thinks must certainly be the hero from her novels. While Tatiana pines over Onegin, Olga and the romantic young Lensky (Soloist Patrick Yocum) quickly fall into a whimsical romance.
