Review: Lyric’s Carmen Features Strong Performances, But the Plot Can Be Troubling

Georges Bizet produced some of opera’s most memorable music for Carmen, his 1875 composition, set in Spain and sung in…
Georges Bizet produced some of opera’s most memorable music for Carmen, his 1875 composition, set in Spain and sung in…
Barbershops and beauty salons are important cultural hubs for communities of color. “In my day, a barber was more than…
What do you get when you mix Englebert Humperdinck, a visual homage to German expressionism, Weimar decadence, and gorgeous singing?…
Last year, the Lyric Opera presented a dazzling production of The Magic Flute originally conceived for Berlin’s Komische Oper by…
The voices! Soprano Michelle Bradley, making her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the title role of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca,…
There are performances that play exactly to your sensibilities and provide you with thorough delight. There are others that may…
The Lyric Opera of Chicago first presented Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in 1955 (it made its world premiere in 1904); the version…
This isn’t a “best theater of the year” list. As we’ve noted about past lists, we don’t see everything. Most…
At a typical (however one defines that) performance at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the accompanying program includes in each cast…
As operas go, La Traviata is perhaps among the best known. Giuseppe Verdi’s adaptation (with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave) of…
Whether it’s Rogers & Hammerstein, Disney, the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault, the story of Cinderella, her fairy godmother, the…
I’ve attended more opera in the last year than I have in all my years of attending theater (and that’s…
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