Opera, Stages

Review: Chicago Opera Theater Triumphs With Shostakovich’s The Nose, From Gogol’s Story

The Chicago Opera Theater COT) has a mission to produce new and rarely produced work. Dmitri Shostakovich was 22 years old when he wrote The Nose adapted from the short […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Classical, Music, Opera, Stages, Venues

Review: Chicago Opera Theater Opens Season With a Compelling Timeline of War and Its Aftermath with Soldier Songs

Soldier Songs is a solo operatic performance that blends the genres of classical and heavy metal. I thought that I had never heard anything like it, however, the parallels between […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Opera, Stages

Review: King Roger Makes a Spellbinding Premiere at Harris Theater

I was put under a spell on Friday. King Roger by the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) was the spellbinding work that eased my anxiety from sitting in a traffic snarl […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Opera, Stages

Review: Chicago Opera Theater’s Quamino’s Map Pulls the Curtain Back on Black Life in the Georgian Era

Quamino’s Map is the 22nd opera by the Belizean-born composer Errollyn Wallen who trained at the University of London and Cambridge. The libretto is by playwright Deborah Brevoort and the […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Opera, Stages

Review: Lost in the Heart of the Sea—Moby-Dick, the Opera

By June Sawyers “Call me Ishmael.” Even if you have never read the novel, you know the sentence, one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. But Jake […]

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