Archive for May 15th, 2016
Spring Drive recap
Wow, four days of end-to-end pledge pitching and we are exhausted! We’re so glad to get back to what you love… THE MUSIC! Really folks, we couldn’t do this without all the outstanding support from YOU, the classical music-loving community. For the number crunchers: goal for the entire drive: $124,500 total made: $129,523 total […]
07/09/16 – Romeo and Juliet – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Charles Gounod In French with projected English titles front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg He’s a Montague and she’s a Capulet — families who have hated each other for centuries. Yet when Romeo meets Juliet, they fall instantly and rapturously in love. Secretly, they marry — but Shakespeare’s famed young […]
07/02/16 – Der Rosenkavalier – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Richard Strauss In German with projected English titles front page photo credit: Cory Weaver It’s exactly what you want a Strauss opera to be — deliciously extravagant! Can the elegantly alluring Marschallin find lasting happiness with her lover Octavian, who’s half her age? Does the hot-blooded Baron really think his […]
06/25/16 – Nabucco – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Giuseppe Verdi In Italian with projected English titles front page photo credit: Cory Weaver Politics. Religion. A dangerous love triangle. Plus two killer roles and some of the greatest choral music ever written, including the soul-stirring “Va, pensiero” chorus. This is the opera that made Verdi a star! On one […]
06/18/16 – Merry Widow – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Franz Lehár In English with projected English titles front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Beautiful Hanna’s late husband has left her a very rich woman. In fact, she’s so rich that the economy of her homeland depends on her marrying a local — so the ambassador springs into action with […]
06/11/16 – Wozzeck – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Alban Berg In German with projected English titles front page photo credit: Cory Weaver Raw, powerful, and transformational in its emotional punch and musical form, Wozzeck is an opera that’s meant to shake an audience to its core. Sir David McVicar makes his triumphant return to Lyric to deliver a […]
06/04/16 – Cinderella – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Gioachino Rossini In Italian with projected English titles front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg The beloved tale of Cinderella (La Cenerentola) meets operatic delight in this bubbling Rossini hit! You know the story: Cinderella is dressed in rags and destined to toil away for her nasty stepsisters and horrible […]
05/28/16 – Bel Canto – 1PM
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Music by Jimmy López Libretto by Nilo Cruz Based on the novel by Ann Patchett In Spanish, English, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Latin and Quechua, with projected English titles front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Ann Patchett’s best-selling novel Bel Canto took the literary world by storm — now, in a […]
05/21/16 – Marriage of Figaro – 1PM – Lyric Opera of Chicago begins!
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In Italian with projected English titles front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Join us at Lyric as the resourceful Figaro gets ready to marry his lovely Susanna – and endeavors to get his fiancée to the altar with her virtue still intact! His boss, the Count, has designs […]
Music From Movies 5-15-16
James Horner Music from Iris CBS/Sony 89806 COND James Horner ORCH Unknown orchestra/ensemble SOLO Joshua Bell, violin 7:16 PM Doreen Carwithen Suffolk Suite Atma 2199 COND David Snell ORCH Foundation Philharmonic 7:28 PM Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5: Adagietto DG/Archiv 9837 COND Gustavo Dudamel ORCH Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra 7:39 PM John Williams Schindler’s […]
