Kyle MacMillan - For the Sun-Times
The trio of conductors join a host of artists comprising a summer of music at the Highland Park venue.
The biennial celebration is back for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdowns.
With its baffling design and costumes, and singing that lacks nuance, production has little new to say about Verdi’s princess.
Joffrey’s 69th season and its fourth at the Lyric Opera House will open with the American premiere of Marston’s “Atonement,” based on Ian McEwan’s novel.
Highlights of Muti’s appearances will include the world premiere of a CSO-commissioned suite from Osvaldo Golijov’s score for Francis Ford Coppola’s soon-to-be-released film, “Megalopolis.”
“We not a theater company. We are not a dance company. We’re a hybrid,” founder Ellyzabeth Adler says. Its latest program brings together art, music, dance and poetry.
UChicago Presents began in 1943 as the University of Chicago Chamber Music Series.
It’s important to realize that this is not so much a version of Mozart’s opera but something new, with its own libretto adapted by Mary Zimmerman.
Composer Terence Blanchard’s work effectively pairs young and old versions of fighter Emile Griffith, who struggled with male identity and the aftermath of a knockout that proved deadly.