BLO raises the curtain on John Musto’s ‘Inspector’ BLO raises the curtain on ‘Inspector’ - Arts

On Friday night, Boston Lyric Opera performed “The Inspector,” an opera by John Musto with a libretto by Mark Campbell after Gogol’s play “The Government Inspector.” Somewhere in Gogol’s original — which Nabokov called the greatest play in all of Russian literature — is the blueprint for a great opera, but alas, “The Inspector” is not it.