On a recent weekend evening the performers in the current roster of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago presented a concert of operatic selections showcasing their musical talents. The Lyric Opera Orchestra accompanied the performers and was conducted by Edwin Outwater.
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A New Faust at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s innovative, new production of Charles Gounod’s Faust succeeds on multiple levels of musical and dramatic representation. The title role is sung by Benjamin Bernheim, his companion in adventure MÈphistophÈlËs is performed by Christian Van Horn.
CosÏ fan tutte at Lyric Opera of Chicago
With artifice, disguise, and questions on fidelity as the basis of Mozart’s CosÏ fan tutte, the composer’s mature opera has returned to the stage at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
I Puritani at Lyric Opera of Chicago
What better evocation of bel canto than an opera which uses the power of song to dispel madness and to reunite the heroine with her banished fiancÈ? Such is the final premise of Vincenzo Bellini’s I puritani, currently in performance at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
The Pearl Fishers at Lyric Opera of Chicago
For its recent production of Georges Bizet’s Les pÍcheurs de perles Lyric Opera of Chicago assembled an ideal cast of performers who blend well into an imaginative and colorful production.
A New Die Walk¸re at Lyric Opera of Chicago
From the start of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s splendid, new production of Richard Wagner’s Die Walk¸re conflict and resolution are portrayed throughout with moving intensity. The central character Br¸nnhilde is sung by Christine Goerke and her father Wotan by Eric Owens.
Rigoletto at Lyric Opera of Chicago
If a credible portrayal of the title character in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto is vital to any performance, the success of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s current, exciting production hinges very much on the memorable court jester and father sung by baritone Quinn Kelsey.
Gluck’s OrphÈe et Eurydice at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s OrphÈe et Eurydice opened the 2017–18 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Stars of Lyric Opera 2017, Millennium Park, Chicago
As a prelude to the 2017-18 season Lyric Opera of Chicago presented its annual concert, Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park, during the last weekend. A number of those who performed in this event will be featured in roles during the coming season.
Lyric Opera of Chicago to Premiere Fellow Travelers—A Preview
On 17 March 2018 Lyric Opera of Chicago will premiere the 2016 opera Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears (with a libretto by Greg Pierce, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon. Mallon’s 2007 novel offered fresh perspectives on the paranoiac investigations of McCarthy-era Washington, DC, through the lens of a gay relationship.