Archive for the ‘Operafest’ Category
06/09/18 – The Pearl Fishers – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION (Les pêcheurs de perles) by Georges Bizet Sung in French photo credit: Andrew Cioffi The Pearl Fishers Opera Overview For sheer exotic beauty, Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers has few rivals in the entire repertoire. The opera’s famed duet for tenor and baritone is a soaring melody that has turned countless opera newcomers into ecstatic […]
06/02/18 – Die Walküre – 1pm
NEW PRODUCTION by Richard Wagner Sung in German photo credit: Cory Weaver Die Walküre Opera Overview After the triumph of Das Rheingold in 2016/17, Lyric continues the thrilling journey through Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle with Die Walküre. This is the most deeply moving and romantic of all the Ring operas. Its riveting, devastating drama involves […]
05/26/18 – Rigoletto – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION by Giuseppe Verdi Sung in Italian front page photo credit: ToddRosenberg Rigoletto Opera Overview There’s no character in opera more powerfully dramatic than the court jester Rigoletto, whose acid tongue and all-consuming desire for revenge lead to catastrophe for himself and his sweet, love-struck daughter Gilda. Of all the great Verdi works, none boasts more unforgettable […]
05/12/18 – Orphée et Eurydice – 1pm LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO BEGINS
NEW PRODUCTION Orphée et Eurydice (Orpheus and Eurydice) by Christoph Willibald Gluck Sung in French with projected English translations Featuring The Joffrey Ballet Orphée et Eurydice Opera Overview One of opera’s most beautiful masterpieces, Gluck’s exquisite drama introduces us to Orpheus, the poet and musician whose every word and note communicate the most overwhelming love […]
11/25/17 – Amleto – 1pm
Opera Southwest Amleto by composer Franco Faccio librettist Arrigo Boito CAST: Amleto (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) Alex Richardson Claudio (Claudius, King of Denmark) Shannon De Vine Polonio (Polonius, Lord Chamberlain) Matthew Curran Orazio (Horatio, Amleto’s friend) Joseph Hubbard Marcello (Marcellus, a Sentry) Paul Bower Laerte (Laertes, Polonio’s son) Javier Gonzalez Ofelia (Ophelia, […]
11/18/17 – Tancredi – 1pm
Opera Southwest Tancredi by composer Gioachino Rossini librettist Gaetano Rossi CAST: Tancredi Heather Johnson Amenaide Lindsay Ohse Argirio Heath Huberg Orbazzano Matthew Curran Isaura Madelyn Wanner Roggiero Chelsea Duval-Major ENSEMBLE: Opera Southwest Orchestra and Chorus CONDUCTOR: Anthony […]
11/11/17 – Il Pirata – 1pm
Caramoor Opera Il Pirata by Vincenzo Bellini libretto by Felice Romani Overview This season’s operatic centerpiece is a semi-staged production of Bellini’s 1827 breakthrough opera Il pirata (“The Pirate”). Artist-in-Residence Angela Meade, whose revelatory Caramoor performance of the same composer’s Norma was hailed as “a truly perfect night at the opera” by Das Opernglas, takes on the […]
11/04/17 – Lucrezia Borgia – 1pm
Caramoor Opera LUCREZIA BORGIA COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti LIBRETTO: Felice Romani CAST: Lucrezia Borgia Angela Meade Maffio Orsini Tamara Mumford Gennaro Michele Angelini Alfonso D’Este Christophoros Stamboglis Jeppo Liverotto Sungwook Kim Don Apostolo Gazella Hans Tashjian Ascanio Petrucci Kyle Oliver Oloferno Vitellozzo William Hearn Rustighello Cameron Schutza Gubetta Joseph Beutel Astolfo Zachary Altman CONDUCTOR: Will Crutchfield […]
10/28/17 – Falstaff – 1pm
Chicago Symphony Orchestra FALSTAFF (in Italian) COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi LIBRETTO: Arrigo Boito CAST: Sir John Falstaff Ambrogio Maestri Alice Ford Eleonora Buratto Ford Luca Salsi Nannetta Rosa Feola Fenton Saimir Pirgu Mistress Quickly Daniela Barcellona Meg Page Laura Polverelli Bardolfo Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani Pistola […]
10/21/17 – Arabella – 1pm
San Francisco Opera ARABELLA (in German) Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal PLACE AND TIME: Vienna, Shrove Tuesday, 1860 Conductor Wolfgang Rennert CAST A fortuneteller Rebecca Cook Countess Waldner Sona Cervena Zdenka, her younger daughter, in love with Matteo Barbara Daniels Matteo, a young officer in love with Arabella […]
