Review: Le Comte Ory Is a Beautifully Staged and Magnificently Sung Romp by Lyric Opera
Rossini’s Le Comte Ory is my second French-language opera within a week. Verdi’s Don Carlos is also at the Lyric.…
Rossini’s Le Comte Ory is my second French-language opera within a week. Verdi’s Don Carlos is also at the Lyric.…
For the uninitiated (and perhaps even for those clued in) thinking of going to the opera, the Lyric’s Ernani is…
I gave high praise to Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The opening night performance at the…
My first opera was at age 10 when our parish priest took us to see La Boheme at the Lyric…
Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2021-22 comeback season September 17 with Giuseppe Verdi’s 1847 interpretation of William Shakespeare’s 1606…
2020 is weird, and there’s no sense not acknowledging the differences between this and most other holiday seasons, if even…
There was some life in this death. BASE Hologram and director Stephen Wadsworth resurrected soprano Maria Callas 42 years after…
As the sun rises at what annually is its most northerly point on the horizon, sound artists and Rogers Park…
Chicago’s Lyric Opera fêted their fabulous creative consultant Renée Fleming last week. She debuted on that stage on October 9,…
I’ve attended more opera in the last year than I have in all my years of attending theater (and that’s…
There are certain experiences, certain accomplishments that, understandably, pop up on most people’s Bucket Lists, those to-do lists of what…
I don’t like musicals. I’m an atheist. I love Jesus Christ Superstar. I was a budding theater nerd when my…
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