Janai Brugger & Elīna Garanča Headline Great Performances Lineup for August 2023

(Photo Credit: Dario Acosta) Great Performances on PBS has announced two essential presentations. First up, the organization will broadcast a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony. The showcase will feature Uniting Voices, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under conductor and Bernstein protégé Marin Alsop. Janai Brugger appears as the soprano soloist. The performance, which was recorded {…}

Aug 4, 2020

Q & A: TV Director Brian Large On Taping the Met’s Otto Schenk ‘Ring,’ 30 Years Later

Thirty years ago, in June 1990, opera lovers were glued to their television screens for four consecutive weekday evenings as they experienced what Richard Wagner always intended: a consecutive-evening presentation of “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Of course, his wish for four nights in a row was not realistic for the stage, given the demands it would place on musicians and {…}

Sep 29, 2017

Lyric Opera’s Ballet-Centered ‘Orphee et Eurdyice’ to Broadcast on PBS in 2018

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that its premiere production of Gluck’s “Orphee et Eurydice” will be broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances series. WNET New York will be in Chicago to film the Oct. 6 and 9 performances at the Lyric Opera House. The broadcast of the recorded performance is scheduled to air in 2018. Produced by famed choreographer John Neumeier and {…}