Por: Chicago Sun Times Entertainment January 28, 2023
About five years ago, after watching a documentary several times about the hugely successful Broadway musical “Rent,” loosely based on Puccini’s iconic opera “La Bohème,” noted baritone Will Liverman got an idea. Why not update “The Barber of Seville,” another celebrated historical opera, and set it in a contemporary Black barber shop? “The Factotum,” the resulting work, which Liverman created with... + full article
Chicago Sun Times USA Entertainment January 27, 2023
Faceless tree creatures wearing black suits and ties. Fourteen winged and masked chefs complete with white uniforms and toques and a dapper, tuxedo-clad fish serving as a butler.A cannibalistic witch who comes off as a Julia Child-like cook on steroids.These were some of the... + más
Darker ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a fun Halloween treat | Orlando Sentinel
Magic, witches, wraiths and animé: Operas get Halloween makeovers | Orlando Sentinel
Los Angeles Times USA Entertainment November 24, 2022
“Tosca” is back at Los Angeles Opera. The well-traveled production by British director John Caird, first seen here in 2013, has been revived. The cast, headed by popular Los Angeles native Angel Blue, as well as the conductor and production team are nearly all familiar.... + más
How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels turned an enslaved man's narrative into an opera | Los Angeles Times
With its first ‘Don Carlos’ production, Lyric Opera soars to heights seldom seen | Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Sun Times USA Entertainment November 15, 2022
After Lyric Opera of Chicago’s opening last week of its first-ever production of the 1886 five-act version of “Don Carlos,” with its intense dose of forced marriage, armed rebellion and religious oppression, the company unveiled a perfect, light-hearted contrast Sunday... + más
`Otello,' Rossini's not Verdi's, staged in Philadelphia | Associated Press
Chicago Sun Times USA Entertainment November 10, 2022
Opera is a fusion of music and theater, and when that alchemical combination happens in an ideal way, as it did Wednesday night at the Lyric Opera House, the results are utterly gripping and thoroughly rewarding. Lyric Opera of Chicago debuted its first-ever production of... + más
Rossini’s comic ‘Le Comte Ory’ a triumph at Lyric Opera of Chicago | Chicago Sun Times
Los Angeles Times USA Entertainment October 21, 2022
Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations from the Quran; his “Christian” owners stood over his shoulder as... + más
With new headstone, Marblehead won’t let enslaved woman be forgotten | The Boston Globe
Carlos Simon readies his ‘Requiem for the Enslaved’ for live premiere | The Boston Globe
ABC News USA Sports October 20, 2022
AFC CLINCHED: Indianapolis-AFC South and homefield advantage; San Diego-AFC West and first-round bye; Cincinnati-AFC North; New England-AFC East ELIMINATED: Cleveland, Kansas City, Oakland, Buffalo, Tennessee Baltimore - Clinches a playoff spot with a win N.Y. Jets - Clinches a... + más
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Chicago Tribune USA Entertainment September 23, 2022
Any conductor that helms a company of Lyric Opera’s stature is going to be a globe-trotter — there’s no two ways about it. It’s practically de rigueur for orchestra or opera chiefs to spend only a couple months per year in their employer’s home city. Take that... + más
A running renaissance in Chicago: Diverse run clubs emerge and expand in the city as marathon approaches | Chicago Tribune
Review: This stunning ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Lyric Opera is steeped in tradition — and transcends it. Don’t miss it. | Chicago Tribune
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