Tag: Chicago Lyric Opera
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Every fall, as Chicago’s classical music season begins to take shape, the question arrives in one form or another: What should we hear? It is a reasonable question. There is too much music to hear everything, and the start of the season comes with an abundance of possibilities. Hannah Edgar has offered her choices for…
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I had hoped to write something longer about Medea, which opened a week ago at the Lyric Opera. Time and circumstance have conspired against me, but this production demands to be acknowledged, even if briefly. Suffice it to say, the performance and production is not to be missed. Luigi Cherubini’s Medea remains one of opera’s…