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Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Feature
Jan 25, 2019
Opera News: Lyric's Ring Cycle season and COT's all-female executive suite
Lyric Opera announces its next season, and Chicago Opera Theater's put the women in charge.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
Arts
,
Opera
,
Performing Arts
,
Lyric Opera of Chicago
,
Lyric Opera
,
2019-2020 season
,
Ring Cycle
,
Anthony Freud
,
Sir Andrew Davis
,
Ashley Magnus
,
Chicago Opera Theater
,
Douglas R. Clayton
,
Lydia Yankovskaya
,
Susan Irion
,
The Scarlet Ibis
,
Gotterdammerung
,
Siegfried
,
Die Walkure
,
Das Rheingold
,
Richard Wagner
,
Stefan Weisman
,
David Cote
,
The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing
,
Justine Chen
,
David Simpatico
,
Chris Thoren
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Feature
Nov 6, 2018
The Lyric’s Ring Cycle continues with the amazing adventures of
Siegfried
Wagner’s music is glorious, even if his hero never becomes more than a blustering little boy.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
Siegfried
,
Lyric Opera
,
Ring Cycle
,
Richard Wagner
,
David Pountney
,
Burkhard Fritz
,
Matthias Klink
,
Eric Owens
,
Ronnita Miller
,
Christine Goerke
,
Sir Andrew Davis
,
steampunk
,
German opera
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 29, 2018
Five opera films that hit the high notes
If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center's screening of
The Magic Flute
has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.
By Patrick Friel
Tags:
Arts
,
Film
,
Foreign
,
History
,
Moviegoing
,
Music
,
Opera
,
Performing Arts
,
Theater
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Ingmar Bergman
,
The Magic Flute
,
opera
,
Chuck Jones
,
Bugs Bunny
,
Elmer Fudd
,
What's Opera Doc?
,
Carmen Jones
,
Otto Preminger
,
Dorothy Dandridge
,
CinemaScope
,
Dave Kehr
,
Bluebeard's Castle
,
Peeping Tom
,
Michael Powell
,
Bela Bartok
,
Bela Balazs
,
Leni Riefenstahl
,
Hein Heckroth
,
The Red Shoes
,
The Tales of Hoffman
,
Norman Foster
,
Anna Raquel Satre
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
Moses and Aaron
,
Jean-Marie Straub
,
Daniele Huillet
,
Arnold Schoenberg
,
Don Giovanni
,
Joseph Losey
,
Mozart
,
Freud
,
Marx
,
The Boy With Green Hair
,
Mr. Klein
,
Parsifal
,
Hans Jurgen Syberberg
,
King Ludwig
,
Karl May
,
Richard Wagner
,
Edith Clever
,
Yvonne Minton
,
Reiner Goldberg
,
Robert Loyd
,
Wolfgang Schone
,
Aage Haugland
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Feature
Nov 8, 2017
Akeelah and the Bee
,
Die Walküre
, and 14 more new stage shows to see
An inspirational kids' show and a not-be-missed Lyric Opera production are among this week's best bets.
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
Akeelah and the Bee
,
Adventure Stage
,
Cheryl L. West
,
Scripps National Spelling Bee
,
La Shone T. Kelly
,
Aaron Quick
,
Brandon Rivera
,
Daryl Brooks
,
Bob: A Life in Five Acts
,
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
,
the Comrades
,
Derek Bertelsen
,
Will Quam
,
Bobby Pin Girls
,
Nothing Without a Company
,
Janey Bell
,
Grace Hutchings
,
Emilie Modaff
,
Debo Balogun
,
Peter Wilde
,
Ben Kaye
,
The Consul
,
Gian Carlo Menotti
,
Chicago Opera Theater
,
Andreas Mitisek
,
refugee crisis
,
Patricia Racette
,
Victoria Livengood
,
Justin Ryan
,
Kristof van Grysperre
,
42nd Street
,
Michael Stewart
,
Mark Bramble
,
Harry Warren
,
Al Dubin
,
Michael Heitzman
,
Gene Weygandt
,
Emilio Sosa
,
I'll Be Seeing You
,
Broken Nose Collective
,
Kevin Jandrist
,
standards
,
the Derrick Tate Connection
,
J.B.
,
Archibald MacLeish
,
City Lit Theater
,
The Book of Job
,
Brian Pastor
,
John Sabine
,
The Low Upside
,
stand-up
,
Promethean Theatre Ensembl
,
Marisol
,
Juan Castañeda
,
Newsies
,
Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
,
Patrick Rooney
,
Alex Sanchez
,
Man of La Mancha
,
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
,
MadKap Productions
,
Rocket City, Alabam'
,
Mark Saltzman
,
Ashley Schaeffer
,
Michael Dalberg
,
Wayne Mell
,
School of Rock
,
Jack Black
,
Mike White
,
Julian Fellowes
,
This Wonderful Life
,
It's a Wonderful Life
,
American Blues Theater
,
Frank Capra
,
James Leaming
,
Carmen Roman
,
Joe Huppert
,
Steve Murray
,
Yasmina's Necklace
,
Rohina Malik
,
Susaan Jamshidi
,
Ann Filmer
,
16th Street Theater
,
Goodman Theatre
,
Die Walküre
,
Lyric Opera Chicago
,
Richard Wagner
,
Andrew Jones
,
Christing Goerke
,
Eric Owens
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 27, 2016
Second City does Wagner for its second hilarious collaboration with Lyric Opera
Longer! Louder! Wagner!
is like Hershey Felder crossed with
The Producers
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Comedy
,
Onstage
,
Opera
,
Second City
,
Lyric Opera
,
Richard Wagner
,
Longer! Louder! Wagner!
,
The Second City Guide to Opera
,
the Ring cycle
,
Bayreuth
,
Travis Turner
,
Randall Harr
,
Tim Ryder
,
Alice Stanley Jr.
,
Sayjal Joshi
,
Jonah D. Winston
,
Tracy Cantin
,
Tim Sniffen
,
Anneliese Toft
,
Hershey Felder
,
The Producers
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 4, 2014
Designer Johan Engels has died, but Lyric Opera's Ring cycle creative team soldiers on
The first of four operas is tentatively set to premiere in October 2016.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Opera
,
RIP
,
Arts
,
Lyric Opera
,
Lyric Opera of Chicago
,
Ring cycle
,
Richard Wagner
,
Johan Engels
,
David Pountney
,
Anthony Freud
,
Matthew Rees
,
Rob Kearley
,
Denni Sayers
,
Marie-Jeanne Lecca
,
Der Ring des Nibelungen
,
Das Rheingold
,
Die Walkure
,
Siegfried
,
Gotterdammerung
,
The Passenger
,
Parsifal
,
Eric Owens
,
Christine Goerke
,
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 4, 2014
Recommended
Kneehigh Theatre's
Tristan & Yseult
shows the low comedy and high anguish of love
The troupe from Cornwall, UK, appearing as part of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's World's Stage series, does romance right.
By Tony Adler
Tags:
Theater
,
Arts
,
Richard Wagner
,
Tristan und Isolde
,
Kneehigh Theatre
,
Shakespeare Theater's World's Stage
,
Emma Rice
,
Club for the Unloved
,
Georgia
,
Tristan & Yseult
,
Recommended
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Oct 14, 2013
Was Walt Whitman racist?
Northwestern voice student Timothy McNair took a stand in protest—and failed a class.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Deanna Isaacs on Culture
,
Timothy McNair
,
Northwestern University
,
music
,
Donald Nally
,
chorale classes
,
poems
,
Walt Whitman
,
Howard Hanson
,
Bienen School of Music
,
racism
,
Toni-Marie Montgomery
,
George Mitchell
,
NAACP
,
Donald S. Reynolds
,
City University of New York
,
Abraham Lincoln
,
history
,
Jay Grossman
,
books
,
sexuality
,
Richard Wagner
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 20, 2013
Lyric Opera of Chicago's
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
is Wagner, tamed
Lyric Opera's
Meistersinger
is nicer than it once was.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Theater
,
Arts
,
Music
,
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
,
Lyric Opera of Chicago
,
David McVicar
,
Andrew Davis
,
Richard Wagner
,
Hitler
,
Third Reich
,
Glyndebourne
,
Elektra
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 8, 2013
A haiku on this week's mishap at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
A haiku inspired by the fire-breathing trick that literally backfired on Wesley Daniel during a dress rehearsal for
Die Meistersinger
.
By Tony Adler
Tags:
Theater
,
Arts
,
Music
,
Lyric Opera of Chicago
,
Wesley Daniel
,
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
,
Richard Wagner
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 6, 2012
Rabid Rabbit's dark take on opera at New Capital's 24HRS/25DAYS celebration
Local four-piece avent-garge metal act Rabid Rabbid take on the doom and gloom of Richard Wagner's
Gotterdammerung
By Luca Cimarusti
Tags:
Things I Love
,
Music
,
Rabid Rabbit
,
New Capital
,
24HRS/25DAYS
,
Richard Wagner
,
Gotterdammerung
,
Gloomy Sunday
,
doom-metal
,
opera
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 30, 2012
Video
Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Wagner & Me
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Stephen Fry
,
Gosford Park
,
Richard Wagner
,
Adolf Hitler
,
Killing Them Softly
,
Brad Pitt
,
Andrew Dominik
,
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
,
Wuthering Heights
,
Emily Bronte
,
Andrea Arnold
,
Red Road
,
Fish Tank
,
Fat Kid Rules the World
,
Jacob Wysocki
,
Terri movie
,
A Liar's Autobiograpy
,
Graham Chapman
,
Monty Python's Flying Circus
,
Shirley Clarke
,
The Connection
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Wong Kar-wai
,
Happy Together
,
In the Mood for Love
,
Stephen Chow
,
Kung Fu Hustle
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Made in U.S.A.
,
Wim Wenders
,
Pina Bausch
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Joe Dante
,
Small Soldiers
,
Richard Fleischer
,
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
,
Terror in the Aisles 13
,
Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm
,
Dario Argento
,
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
,
Chicago movies
,
Video
Film
,
Movie Review
Nov 28, 2012
Video
The fanboy and the fuhrer
In
Wagner & Me
, Stephen Fry tries to separate the German composer from his Nazi fans
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Richard Wagner
,
Apocalypse Now
,
Colonel Kilgore
,
Robert Duvall
,
Francis Ford Coppola
,
Ride of the Valkyries
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Stephen Fry
,
anti-Semitism
,
Nazi
,
Fry Rieger
,
Eva Rieger
,
Minna and Richard Wagner
,
Der Ring des Nibelungen
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 6, 2011
Opera in the movies, and vice versa
A consideration of the relationship between opera and film.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Film
,
Opera
,
Cinema
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Aida
,
Giuseppe Verdi
,
Eugene Onegin
,
Pushkin
,
Tchaikovsky
,
Tosca
,
Puccini
,
Citizen Kane
,
The Cotton Club
,
Magnolia
,
Luchino Visconti
,
Moses and Aaron
,
gesamtunstwerk
,
Richard Wagner
,
close-ups
,
long-shots
,
Tales of Hoffmann
,
The Magic Flute
,
La Ronde
,
In the Mood for Love
,
The New World
,
Melancholia
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Review
Feb 18, 2010
The No-Sing Ring
Wagner's epic opera, without the opera, at the Building Stage
By Zac Thompson
Tags:
Performing Arts Review
,
The Ring Cycle
,
Richard Wagner
,
Building Stage
,
Blake Montgomery
,
Joanie Schultz
,
Chicago theater
,
theater review
,
Siegried
,
Tolkien
,
Lord of the Rings
,
Nazis
,
George Bernard Shaw
,
The Building Stage
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 12, 2007
Video
Allow me to extend to you the traditional greeting of my people
A warm welcome to Chicagoland.
By Whet Moser
Tags:
News
,
Chicagoland
,
Terrence Malick
,
Richard Wagner
,
The New World
,
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