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Lyric Opera of Chicago Receives Historic Gift From Penelope Steiner
The leadership of Lyric Opera of Chicago has received a transformational gift from longtime supporter and Vice Chair of its Board of Directors Penelope Steiner. Learn more.
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April reigns with showers of music, theater
The following is a look both forward and back to some of the best: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: The CSO has a long-standing reputation as one of the world’s greatest Mahler orchestras. In April, they ...
In Lyric Opera’s ‘The Listeners,’ one little sound drives a woman to the edge
The opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follows a schoolteacher who is plagued by a sound called “the ...
‘Carousel’ gets a new look at Boston Lyric Opera
When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein arrived in Boston in March 1945, they were worried. Just days earlier, the ...
Composer Missy Mazzoli filters her opera 'The Listeners' through a contemporary lens
The English-language opera will receive its fourth production worldwide and second in the United States when Lyric Opera of ...
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‘The Listeners’ casts a soprano from Chicago in the lead of its convention-shattering story
The new work — about a middle-aged schoolteacher ensnared in a cult — premieres this week at the Lyric Opera. Hyde Park ...