Just a few years back it would have been seen as ridiculous to put “Lyric Opera of Chicago” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the same sentence. But the times they are a-changin’, and last night the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera opened for a month’s run, shaking up the staid Civic Opera House. Read more »
Lyric Opera Unlimited, the education and outreach program of Lyric Opera of Chicago, has done our fair city a great favor by producing Fellow Travelers, the new Gregory Spears–Greg Pierce opera commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera in 2016. I caught the last of four performances on Sunday afternoon in the beautiful, old 984-seat Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago. I found the performance intellectually and politically riveting, musically thrilling, and profoundly moving. It was a triumph. Read more »
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The work of the sculptor John Frame (here serving as Production Designer) is the inspiration for Kevin Newbury’s new production of Gounod’s familiar Faust that opened Saturday night at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Here Faust is envisioned as an aging artist, and it is in his studio that the opera begins. Faust has created a sculpture of Mephistopheles, and it comes to life through the use of multi-media screens and projections. Once Mephistopheles arrives, we move through the opera as if seeing it inside Faust’s head. Read more »
It was an afternoon of spectacular singing, particularly from the two principals and the glorious Lyric Opera Chorus.
“It’s quite a coup to have Alice Coote starring in not one but two company premieres at Lyric next season.”
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s spectacularly colorful and glitzy new production of The Pearl Fishers opened on Sunday.
It’s a fairly traditional post-Patrice-Chereau Ring, set during the Industrial Revolution.
The second installment of Lyric’s Ring Cycle proved an evening of glorious singing, moving drama, great conducting and orchestral playing.
Cher Public