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Lyric Opera to work with Second City for first time next season
The very notion of Lyric Opera and The Second City performing together, even for a one-night stand, would strike most folks in Chicago as slightly absurd. The city's venerable impresario of grand opera making beautiful music with the town's famous factory...
Tags: U.S. Army, PBS (tv network), Entertainment Events, The Second City, Yo-Yo Ma
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Mellon Foundation gives Lyric $2 million grant
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced Wednesday it has received a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support expanded community engagement and new artistic initiatives. A portion of the grant will help fund the creation of a multifaceted...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Opera (genre), Arts and Culture, Music
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Queen's Balcony Wave, Flypast, Cap Jubilee Celebrations
CNNLondon -- Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations reached a climax Tuesday as she and other members of the royal family appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for a flypast. Aircraft from the Battle of Britain -- including Spitfires and a...Tags: Annie Lennox, Charles, Prince of Wales, Arts and Culture, Unions, Politics
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Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro awes Virginia Arts Festival audience
Opening with the vocal mastery of Renee Fleming on April 16, the Virginia Arts Festival presented a very different master in Jake Shimabukuro's performance on the ukulele April 18. Hawaii-born Shimabukuro gained world-wide attention with his YouTube...
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Yo-Yo Ma visits the Chicago Tribune
!["After I play this,"Yo-Yo Masaid as he picked up his 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius cello, "tell me what you think about." This is Tuesday, around lunch.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/159392200-20152426.jpg ""After I play this,\"Yo-Yo Masaid as he picked up his 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius cello, \"tell me what you think about.\" This is Tuesday, around lunch.")
"After I play this,"Yo-Yo Masaid as he picked up his 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius cello, "tell me what you think about." This is Tuesday, around lunch.
He played the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.
Here's a popular version of it online, which...Tags: Chicago, Concerts, YouTube, Facebook, Yo-Yo Ma
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Subscription drop? Not in Newman's Chicago
If you've been staring at the huge banner of the beautiful Renee Fleming on the back of the Civic Opera House — or noting how well the Lyric Opera of Chicago finds the sex and glamour in its promotion of its season of operas — you're...Tags: Mormonism, Groupon, Inc., Rick Bayless, Nathan Lane, Arts and Culture
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Lyric Opera goes to nine productions for upcoming season
Chicago opera lovers impatient to learn what innovations Anthony Freud will put into place now that he is well and truly ensconced as general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, will have to cool their heels.
The first Lyric season to fall entirely under...Tags: Music, Tennessee Williams, Companies and Corporations, Andrew Davis, Arts and Culture
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Holiday music: Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Tony Bennett and more
Pop & HissAssessing 2011's crop of holiday music releases from Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Tony Bennett, She & Him and many others.... -
L.A. Opera sets 'Two Foscari,' Renee Fleming for new season
Culture Monster"The Two Foscari," starring Plácido Domingo, and a joint recital performance by Renée Fleming and Susan Graham are the highlights of L.A. Opera's 2012-13 season.... -
Opera review: Placido Domingo in L.A. Opera's 'Simon Boccanegra'
Culture MonsterPlácido Domingo sings the title role of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. A review of the performance.... -
L.A. Opera celebrates Verdi at 'Simon Boccanegra' party
Culture MonsterAt the "Simon Boccanegra" opening night party, Los Angeles Opera celebrates first-ever teaming of general director Placido Domingo and music director James Conlon for a Giuseppe Verdi opera.... -
Mary Todd Lincoln painting deemed a fake by art experts
Culture MonsterA portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln, that has hung in the Illinois governor's mansion for years as been deemed a fake by art experts....
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