Just before the opening night performance of “Orphée et Eurydice,” featuring the Joffrey Ballet with choreography by John Neumeier, the company has announced that come the 2020-21 season, the company’s new home will be the Civic Opera House, marrying Chicago’s two world-renowned companies under one, gold-gilded auditorium. “With The Joffrey’s arrival at the start of the 2020/21 season, the Lyric {…}
More opera companies open their doors this weekend starting with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The LOC’s first performance of the year on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, will be Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice.” The opera stars Andriana Chuchmann, Dmitry Korchak, Lauren Snouffer, and Harry Bicket conducting. Meanwhile, Opera Philadelphia continues its festival with performances of “The Magic Flute” on Friday {…}
This Saturday, the Lyric Opera of Chicago opens its 2017-18 season with Gluck’s famed “Orphée et Eurydice.” At the center of this drama of lost love will be tenor Dmitry Korchak, who will be taking on the title role of Orphée in his LYOC debut. Joining him will be Ryan Opera Center alumna Andrana Chuchmann as his lover Eurydice. Korchak {…}
The Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced the singers slated to join the 2018-19 Ryan Opera Center ensemble. The singers slated to join include soprano Emily Pogorelc, mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Decker, tenor Eric Ferring, baritones Christopher Kenney and Ricardo JoséRivera, and bass-baritone David Weigel. Returning next season will be current members, sopranos Whitney Morrison and Ann Toomey; contralto Lauren Decker; tenors Josh Lovell and Mario Rojas; bass-baritone Alan Higgs; and pianist Madeline Slettedahl. The selections {…}
The Lyric Opera of Chicago will showcase famed performing group Choir! Choir! Choir! this coming October. The exact date of the performance will be Oct. 21, 2017, with the curtain coming up at 8 p.m. All attendees will receive sheets with music lyrics and be allowed to join in the experience. Per a press release, “Choir! Choir! Choir! has amassed a {…}
It’s that time of the year when companies begin to rehearse for opening night and as a result, rather than put the focus on individual singers, this week we will see what companies are sharing about their preparations. Opera Philadelphia Opera Philadephia’s festival opens in two weeks and rehearsals have clearly begun. This week the company posted a picture of {…}
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance in association with Lyric Unlimited has announced its fourth annual “Beyond the Aria” showcase for 2017-18. Per the company’s website, “this highly-acclaimed series features intimate performances by celebrated singers from Lyric Opera of Chicago paired with rising stars from the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center.” This year the showcase will {…}
The Lyric Opera of Chicago will launch its new season with the 17th annual Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert. The concert, which is scheduled to take place at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Friday, Sept. 8, at 7:30 pm, will be a free performance, showcasing highlights from the new season. Sir Andrew Davis will lead the Lyric Opera {…}
The cast of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s opera upcoming production of “Fellow Travelers” has been announced. For the Chicago premiere of the work tenor Jonas Hacker and baritone Joseph Lattanzi will sing the lead roles of Timothy Laughlin and Hawkins Fuller in the LGBT opera about two men who fall in love during the height of the McCarthy era in {…}
The Metropolitan Opera season may be over, but a lot of other opera companies remain open for business. Sadly this weekend represents a great number of goodbyes for the time being. If you want opera, here are the companies to look up during the weekend. The Canadian Opera Company is finishing up its run of Puccini’s “Tosca” on Friday and {…}
Opera season remains in full swing across North America as summer fast approaches. With so many companies in business this weekend, we have opted for a slight shift in structure. Instead of a series of paragraphs, we will go list form for this week’s edition and any with this massive amount of productions. Behold the opera events of the weekend {…}