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    May 10, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater

    In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward, as waves ebb upon a shore. As it receded, hordes of musicians were revealed, all playing the glorious music of Richard Rodgers. You could see tears in people's eyes. As the Russian formalists used to put it, the familiar was made strange, and the strange made intensely familiar.
    In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...

    Tags: Music, Music Theater, Customs and Tradition, Culture, Lincoln Center

    2. May 5, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Grand staging for 'Oklahoma' in the hands of Lyric Opera

    THEATER REVIEW: "Oklahoma" at Lyric Opera of Chicago ★★★ ... Early in "Oklahoma!" the 1943 masterpiece by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II now at the Lyric Opera of Chicago ...
    Early in "Oklahoma!" the 1943 masterpiece by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II now at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the traveling peddler Ali Hakim asks the naive young farm girl Laurey Williams if she wants something. He means trinkets from his...

    Tags: Music, Entertainment, Poetry, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events

    3. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera

    If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!”
    If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...

    Tags: Music, Music Theater, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Concerts

    4. Apr 8, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. 'To Cross the Face of the Moon': Lyric's fusion of opera, mariachi brings crowd to its feet ★★★ 1/2

    Nothing like the exuberant dazzle of mariachi to explode operatic stereotypes.
    Nothing like the exuberant dazzle of mariachi to explode operatic stereotypes. The shouts and cheers that went up from the sold-out audience Sunday afternoon at the Civic Opera House said it all. What was billed as the world's first mariachi opera...

    Tags: Music, Mexico, Pilsen, Entertainment, Arts and Culture

    5. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. 'Oklahoma!': Gemze de Lappe here to bring out true colors

    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!”
    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!” The 91-year-old de Lappe hops up from her chair and stoops, bowing low and dusting the air with her hands as if foraging through...

    Tags: Music, Music Theater, John Philip Sousa, Igor (movie), Dance

    6. Mar 5, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Opera superstar Anna Netrebko is conquering the world, theater by theater

    Anna Netrebko seems genuinely unfazed by the stardom that has made her a charismatic figure to hundreds of thousands of opera lovers worldwide, not to mention even greater numbers of ordinary folks who devour articles about her in the popular press and no doubt care more about her taste for shopping and high-end fashion than her high C's. She's her generation's answer to Luciano Pavarotti, an impresario's dream come true.
    Anna Netrebko seems genuinely unfazed by the stardom that has made her a charismatic figure to hundreds of thousands of opera lovers worldwide, not to mention even greater numbers of ordinary folks who devour articles about her in the popular press and no...

    Tags: Music, England, Entertainment, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Arts and Culture

    7. Mar 15, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. The 'other' Barenboim returns in triumph with CSO

    The musical logic behind the program presented by Chicago Symphony Orchestra this weekend at Symphony Center seems clear enough.
    The musical logic behind the program presented by Chicago Symphony Orchestra this weekend at Symphony Center seems clear enough. Pierre Boulez, the originally scheduled conductor, set out to trace the evolution of the German-Austrian tradition from...

    Tags: Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music Theater, Concerts, Theater

    8. Mar 15, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Renee Fleming brings 'A Streetcar Named Desire' to Lyric Opera

    Divine destiny — or is it the shade of Tennessee Williams? — is bringing Renee Fleming and Blanche DuBois together on the same stage, at the same time, at Lyric Opera.
    Divine destiny — or is it the shade of Tennessee Williams? — is bringing Renee Fleming and Blanche DuBois together on the same stage, at the same time, at Lyric Opera. The real Renee and the fictional Blanche are, in their very different...

    Tags: Music, Homes, Carnegie Hall, Concerts, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    9. Mar 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Mariachi the heart and soul of Lyric's 'Cruzar'

    The combination of opera and mariachi is not as unlikely as one might think. Both art forms, in the view of Lyric Opera General Director Anthony Freud, tell human stories about love and loss, family and country. Beyond that, said Freud, "mariachi is a unique, joyful, sorrowful cocktail that has the emotional immediacy of Puccini and a sound world as distinct as that of any great composer."
    The combination of opera and mariachi is not as unlikely as one might think. Both art forms, in the view of Lyric Opera General Director Anthony Freud, tell human stories about love and loss, family and country. Beyond that, said Freud, "mariachi is a...

    Tags: Music, Immigration, Arts, Mexico, Pilsen

    10. Mar 27, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Though not blindingly original, 'Streetcar' music surprises

    “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Andre Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, has come in for such scathing notices from some critics following its premiere by the San Francisco Opera in 1998 that one approached the Chicago premiere Tuesday night at the Civic Opera House, where it received a semi-staged production under auspices of Lyric Opera, expecting the worst.
    “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Andre Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, has come in for such scathing notices from some critics following its premiere by the San Francisco Opera in 1998 that one approached the Chicago premiere...

    Tags: Music, Students, Carnegie Hall, Teaching and Learning, Music Industry

    11. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. 10 things you might not know about razed Chicago

    Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also this month, speculation arose (and was quickly squelched) about tearing down Wrigley Field's iconic scoreboard. And today is the 10th anniversary of one of the most unusual acts of demolition in city history — Mayor Richard M. Daley's middle-of-the-night destruction of Meigs Field.
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    Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...

    Tags: St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), Midway, Holy Name Cathedral, Newspapers, Frank Lloyd Wright

    12. Feb 22, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Candid Candace: Lyric Gala's 'Midnight in Paris'

    For the 29th annual Fantasy of the Opera Gala on Feb. 9, the Lyric's Guild Board transformed the Civic Opera House into 1920s Paris for this year's theme, "Midnight in Paris." More than 700 patrons in black-tie attire sipped Champagne among French-inspired sights that included a two-story twinkling Eiffel Tower, a Moulin Rouge nightclub, strolling mimes and cancan dancers.
    For the 29th annual Fantasy of the Opera Gala on Feb. 9, the Lyric's Guild Board transformed the Civic Opera House into 1920s Paris for this year's theme, "Midnight in Paris." More than 700 patrons in black-tie attire sipped Champagne among French-...

    Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Bohemian Rhapsody (song), Muhammad Ali, Joffrey Ballet, Poetry

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