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Music Review
Mar 2, 2021
Recommended
Will Liverman and Paul Sánchez celebrate Black composers and writers on a collaborative album
By Hannah Edgar
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Music Review
,
Will Liverman
,
Paul Sánchez
,
Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers
,
Cedille Records
,
opera
,
baritone
,
H. Leslie Adams
,
Damien Sneed
,
Robert Lee Owens
,
Wheaton College
,
Margaret Bonds
,
Langston Hughes
,
Shawn Okpebholo
,
Chicago Opera Theater
,
Birmingham
,
Recommended
Music
,
Music Review
Jul 11, 2020
Recommended
Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on
EarthSeed
By Steve Krakow
Tags:
Music Review
,
Nicole Mitchell
,
EarthSeed
,
Lisa E. Harris
,
Afrofuturists
,
jazz
,
Black Earth Ensemble
,
Houston
,
Pittsburgh
,
FPE Records
,
Texas
,
opera
,
Sun Ra
,
Octavia Butler
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Theater Review
Nov 21, 2018
Il Trovatore
's plot is grim, but who cares when you know the score?
Giuseppe Verdi's greatest-hits score keeps this warhorse on the stages of major opera companies.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Theater Review
,
Il Trovatore
,
Lyric Opera
,
Charles Edwards
,
Giuseppe Verdi
,
Marx Brothers
,
A Night at the Opera
,
Spain } Sir David McVicar
,
Anvil Chorus
,
Tamara Wilson
,
Roberto Tagliavini
,
Jamie Barton
,
opera
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Review
Oct 9, 2018
Lyric's
La Bohème
has its flaws, but Puccini's score overcomes most of them
Heavy-handed direction highlights the outdated sexism of the 19th-century story.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Performing Arts Review
,
La Bohème
,
Lyric Opera
,
Giacomo Puccini
,
Michael Fabiano
,
Maria Agresta
,
opera
,
music
,
Richard Jones
,
Zachary Nelson
,
Chicago Children's Choir
Arts & Culture
,
Fall Preview
Sep 19, 2018
Lyric Opera’s
La Bohème
is the perfect comfort as winter looms
The 2018 season opens with Puccini's sublime music and a cast primed to make the most of it.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Fall Preview
,
La Bohème
,
Lyric Opera
,
Giacomo Puccini
,
Michael Fabiano
,
Maria Agresta
,
opera
,
music
,
fall preview
,
fall preview 2018
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
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Arts
,
Film
,
Foreign
,
History
,
Moviegoing
,
Music
,
Opera
,
Performing Arts
,
Theater
,
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,
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
Dec 13, 2017
Turandot
isn’t just problematic—it’s complicated
Puccini’s opera returns to the Lyric, and so does its troubling Orientalism.
By Robin Amer
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
Opera
,
Turandot
,
Giacomo Puccini
,
Lyric Opera
,
Rob Kearley
,
Anthony Freud
,
Naomi Andre
,
Cheng Shi-Zheng
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 6, 2017
Video
Chicago-born Muslim Indian soul singer Zeshan B calls for black and brown unity
This week Zeshan B celebrates his debut solo album,
Vetted
, which blends Indo-Pakistani music and American soul.
By Cristina Burack
Tags:
Music
,
Do This
,
Race
,
Zeshan B
,
Zeshan Bagewadi
,
Vetted
,
Minty Fresh
,
the Transistors
,
Untitled Supper Club
,
Millennium Park
,
Pritzker Pavilion
,
soul
,
Cryin' in the Streets
,
George Perkins
,
Martin Luther King Jr.
,
MLK
,
Black Lives Matter
,
Sandra Bland
,
protest music
,
brown-skinned soul
,
qawwali
,
ghazal
,
opera
,
Curtis Mayfield
,
Donny Hathaway
,
Mahalia Jackson
,
Nina Simone
,
Muslim
,
Islamic
,
Indo-Pakistani
,
Video
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Jan 18, 2017
Lyric Opera’s attempt to get the city to sing is coming to a resounding conclusion
With Chicago Voices, the company hopes to engage a wider audience.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
On Culture
,
Lyric Opera
,
Chicago Voices
,
Renee Fleming
,
opera
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 14, 2016
Lyric Opera’s restaged
The Magic Flute
says ‘Hey, kids, let’s put on a show!’
A backyard version of Mozart's final opera makes its debut.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Performing Arts
,
Opera
,
Lyric Opera
,
The Magic Flute
,
Mozart
,
opera
,
Neil Armfield
,
Blair Thomas
,
Christiane Karg
,
Kathryn Lewek
,
Andrew Staples
,
Matthew Polenzani
,
Dale Ferguson
,
Prince Charming
,
Rodell Rosel
,
Casey Lyons
,
Parker Scribner
,
Asher Alcantara. Rory MacDonald
,
Monostatos
,
Pamina
,
Snow White
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 29, 2016
Video
Two tenors, one musician
On his latest project, Norway's Håkon Kornstad combines his operatic tenor voice and his improv-rooted tenor saxophone.
By Peter Margasak
Tags:
Jazz
,
Music
,
Post No Bills
,
Håkon Kornstad
,
Tenor Battle
,
Marechiare
,
jazz
,
opera
,
Wibutee
,
Tri-Dim
,
Håvard Wiik
,
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
,
Sigbjørn Apeland
,
Lars Henrik Johansen Øyvind Skarbø
,
Per Zanussi
,
Francesco Paolo Tosti
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 8, 2016
An amazing idea for an amazing opera about me, Donald Trump
Dear composer John Adams, have I got an idea for you!
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Arts
,
Opera
,
News
,
Politics
,
Music
,
Humor
,
Donald Trump
,
John Adams
,
Ted Cruz
,
Marco Rubio
,
opera
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Dec 3, 2014
How to win at box-office bingo
With dynamic pricing, you can score cheap seats—or get priced out.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Deanna Isaacs on Culture
,
Porgy and Bess
,
Lyric Opera
,
opera
,
tickets
,
Goodman Theatre
,
Roche Schulfer
,
Tessitura
,
Metropolitan Opera
,
Larry Yando
,
Scrooge
,
A Christmas Carol
News & Politics
,
Chicagoans
Jul 13, 2014
This week's Chicagoan: Joshua Dumas, composer
"There are a lot of composers who can hear stuff in their mind's ear, but I'm not one of them."
By Anne Ford
Tags:
Chicagoans
,
composers
,
Joshua Dumas
,
theater
,
opera
,
drone
,
Raymond Carver
,
compositions
,
Sonic Youth
,
20th-century classical
,
Karlheinz Stockhausen
,
Lou Harrison
,
Erik Satie
,
place
,
Chicago Avenue Moon
,
apps
,
iPhone apps
,
generative music
,
music
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 16, 2014
Reader
's Agenda Fri 5/16: Manifest Urban Arts Festival,
The Inspector and the Prince
, and Owls
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Friday, May 16
By Osita Nwanevu
Tags:
Do This
,
Arts
,
Columbia College Chicago
,
Manifest Urban Arts Festival
,
Hood Internet
,
Youngblood Hawke
,
University of Chicago
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Film Studies Center
,
The Inspector and the Prince
,
Zheng Dasheng
,
Paola Iovene
,
opera
,
Owls
,
Cap'n Jazz
,
Mike Kinsella
,
Tim Kinsella
,
Victor Villareal
,
Sam Zurick
,
TWO
,
Subterranean
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 30, 2014
Recommended
"Performing Images" exposes our parochial view of pop culture
A jaw-dropping ongoing show focuses on the impact of opera on Chinese visual culture.
By Noah Berlatsky
Tags:
Arts
,
Visual Art
,
pop culture
,
the Smart Museum
,
Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
,
Chinese pop culture
,
opera
,
Recommended
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,
Music & Nightlife
Jun 19, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Opera Company Doing Puccini in a Church
American Chamber Opera
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Music & Nightlife
,
Best of Chicago 2013
,
American Chamber Opera
,
opera
,
storefront theater
,
University of Chicago
,
International House
,
Chicago Temple
,
Madame Butterfly
,
Carmen
,
Critics' Picks
Music
,
The Secret History of Chicago Music
Mar 21, 2013
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jim Cuomo
This saxophonist and composer played experimental psych with Spoils of War and acid folk with Mormos, and now writes for a brass band in Australia.
Tags:
The Secret History of Chicago Music
,
saxophonists
,
The Secret History of Chicago Music
,
composers
,
Mormos
,
Jim Cuomo
,
Spoils of War
,
Rantoul, Illinois
,
opera
,
Paul Desmond
,
Stockhausen
,
Boulez
,
Japan
,
California
,
San Antonio, Texas
,
Samuel Adler
,
North Texas State University
,
University of Illinois
,
computer music
,
musique concrete
,
Herbert Brun
,
Kenneth Gaburo
,
Al Ierardi
,
Roger Francisco
,
Frank Garvey
,
James Stroud
,
Annie Hat
,
Steve Beck
,
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
,
Paris
,
brass bands
,
Moreland City BRass
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Feb 14, 2013
Under a new general director, Chicago Opera Theater aims to seduce
Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's
The Fall of the House of Usher
.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
On Culture
,
Chicago Opera Theater
,
Brian Dickie
,
Ken Cazan
,
Andreas Mitisek
,
Long Beach Opera
,
Philip Glass
,
The Fall of the House of Usher
,
Gregory O'Leary
,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
,
Lyric Opera
,
opera
,
Anthony Freud
,
opera season
,
fundraising
,
Eric Slauter
,
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
,
Harris Theater
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
Oct 3, 2012
Coming soon: films by Werner Schroeter
Thoughts on the late German director, the subject of an upcoming partial retrospective at Facets
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Art House
,
Foreign
,
Film
,
Werner Schroeter
,
Facets Multimedia
,
Palermo or Wolfsburg
,
Magdalena Montezuma
,
The Kingdom of Naples
,
The Smiling Star
,
The Black Angel
,
New German Cinema
,
opera
,
Bertolt Brecht
,
Argila
,
Neurasia
,
Olaf Moller
,
Cinema Scope
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 Feature
Feb 24, 2011
Image
Yours, Jimmy
Written 60 years ago and rediscovered on eBay, a young gay man’s personal letters become fodder for a new opera.
By Joanne von Alroth
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
eBay
,
opera
,
Chicago theater
,
Gore Vidal
,
Tennessee Williams
,
David Kodeski
,
The Suitcase: An Opera
,
gay
,
letters
,
Marine Corps
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 6, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: A salami evangelist, the Florentine, Key Ingredient spirulina, and more
In this week's Food & Drink: the Sodfather, the Florentine, Paul Virant of Vie takes our Key Ingredient chef challenge of spirulina, and the latest openings and closings.
By Kate Schmidt
Tags:
Food Chain
,
Food & Drink
,
Frank Ballestri
,
soppressata
,
supersod
,
salami making
,
the Florentine
,
Todd Stein
,
MK
,
JW Marriott Chicago
,
Russell Kook
,
Hell's Kitchen
,
Cibo Matto
,
Paul Virant
,
Vie
,
spirulina
,
David Posey
,
Blackbird
,
Andrew Zimmerman
,
Sepia
,
lamb fat
,
Leopold
,
Jeffrey Hedin
,
Sarah Stegner
,
Sarah Stegner Resolution Club
,
healthy eating
,
Prairie Fire
,
Le Passage
,
the Drawing Room
,
Charles Joly
,
On the Rocks
,
/i>
,
Patty's Diner
,
Opera
,
Adobo Grill Wicker Park
,
Eve
Food & Drink
,
Food & Drink News
Jan 6, 2011
On the Rocks: Le Passage
Belgium comes to West Town, Patty’s Diner closes, and more
By Kate Schmidt
Tags:
Food & Drink News
,
Jeffrey Hedin
,
Jennifer Galdes
,
Sarah Stegner
,
Sarah Stegner Resolution Club
,
Charles Joly
,
mixologist Charles Joly
,
On the Rocks
,
best Chicago diner
,
Leopold
,
Prairie Fire
,
Le Passage
,
The Drawing Room
,
Patty's Diner
,
Opera
,
Adobo Grill
,
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,
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