Beyond the wail Beyond the wail

Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at Lyric Opera of Chicago are hysterical in all the wrong ways.

The scorned mother of us all The scorned mother of us all

Seeing Sondra Radvanovsky as Medea at Lyric Opera of Chicago sprawled across the floor, soaked in her children’s blood, is proof that we’re witnessing an utterly haunting singer-actor.