Archive for the ‘Operafest’ Category
08/12/17 – Tales of Hoffman – 1pm
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN By Jacques Offenbach IN FRENCH Approximate running time: three hours, 35 minutes, including two intermissions front page photo: So Young Park as Olympia, with Rodell Rosel (at right, behind her) as Spalanzani in Act One of LA Opera’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” Photo: Ken Howard / LA Opera OVERVIEW he sensational Diana […]
8/05/17 – Macbeth @1pm – LA Opera Returns!
MACBETH By Giuseppe Verdi IN ITALIAN Approximate running time: three hours, including one intermission. front page photo credit: Ekaterina Semenchuk (Lady Macbeth) and Placido Domingo (Macbeth) in LA Opera’s 2016 production of Verdi’s “Macbeth.” (Photo: Karen Almond / LA Opera) OVERVIEW Plácido Domingo and James Conlon unite again in a powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic thriller. […]
07/29/17 – Tannhäuser – 1PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Richard Wagner In German with projected English texts Approximate running time: 4hrs, 11 min Front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Only gods can live in endless bliss. Tannhäuser, minstrel and renegade, is lured into the erotic realm of the love goddess Venus. There he luxuriates in lust and a host […]
07/22/17 – Don Giovanni – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In Italian with projected English texts Approximate running time: 3hrs, 30 min front page photo credit: Michael Brosilow Bad boys finish last. He’s selfish. He’s arrogant. He’s dangerous. With a list of conquests longer than a phonebook, Don Giovanni travels the world, snaring princesses and peasant girls […]
07/15/17 – Eugene Onegin – 1pm
EUGENE ONEGIN by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Performed in Russian with projected English translations front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Eugene Onegin Opera Overview “Kwiecien has a magnificent dark sound, with rare power and just enough grainy ruggedness.” – The Washington Post on Mariusz Kwiecien “Martínez’s rich, lustrous, and voluptuous soprano…[has] gutsy power in her low […]
07/08/17 – Carmen – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION CARMEN by Georges Bizet Performed in French with projected English translations front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Carmen Opera Overview “Gubanova is heart-rending as she keeps rushing headlong towards a final destiny whose horror we sense long before she does.” – Toronto Star on Ekaterina Gubanova “Her tone is robust and full of […]
07/01/17 – Norma – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION NORMA by Vincenzo Bellini Performed in Italian with projected English translations front page photo credit: Andrew Cioffi Norma Opera Overview “One of the most electrifying spinto voices of our time…with its molten sheen and a beguiling pulse at its core.” – Opera News on Sondra Radvanovsky If you’re drawn to vocal acrobatics, Bellini’s Druid […]
06/24/17 – The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) – 1pm
NEW PRODUCTION THE MAGIC FLUTE (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Performed in German with projected English translations The Magic Flute Opera Overview “Surely the most gifted and promising English tenor for at least a generation.” – The Spectator on Andrew Staples “Polenzani sang with glowing sound, delivering […]
06/17/17 – Don Quichotte – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION DON QUICHOTTE by Jules Massenet front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Performed in French with projected English translations Don Quichotte Opera Overview “Furlanetto is a storyteller…[he] raises magnificent singing to the level of great operatic art.” – Opera News on Ferruccio Furlanetto More than half a century before Man of La Mancha, Massenet […]
06/10/17 – Les Troyens – 1pm
NEW PRODUCTION & LYRIC PREMIERE LES TROYENS (THE TROJANS) by Hector Berlioz front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Performed in French with projected English translations Les Troyens Opera Overview “With touches of Homer, Shakespeare, and music like none ever written before… [Les Troyens] is the grandest French opera. Every performance is an occasion.” – Los Angeles […]
