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Classical music, opera, ballet and dance in Chicago, IL, United States

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ChicagoCivitas Ensemble at North Park University

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North Park University: Anderson Chapel, Sun 22 Feb at 15:00
Fauré, Bartók
Civitas Ensemble
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ChicagoAmerican Icons – Joffrey Ballet

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Lyric Opera House, Feb 22 mat, 26, 27, 28 mat, eve, Mar 01 mat
Strauss I, Starer, Wagner, Poulenc
Gerald Arpino; Martha Graham; Robert Joffrey; Glen Tetley; Joffrey Ballet
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ChicagoMäkelä Conducts The Rite of Spring

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Chicago Symphony Center, Mar 05, 06
Milhaud, Gershwin, Stravinsky
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Klaus Mäkelä
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Sir David McVicar’s psychologically driven Salome arrives in Chicago

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Graham Meyer, 25 Jan
Revived at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the notorious opera director’s take stirs sympathy for Salome, but leans on some of his theatrical hobby-horses
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Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

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Graham Meyer, 04 Dec
A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.
*****
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Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago

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Graham Meyer, 20 Nov
The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral. 
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Ravinia Festival to undergo sweeping $75m renovation

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Bachtrack, 14 Feb
The longest-running outdoor festival in the US and summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will undergo extensive redevelopment over the next four years.
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Samantha Ege on rediscovering the music of Florence Price

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Samantha Ege, 29 Feb
Pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege talks about her experiences hearing and playing the music of Florence Price – beginning in 2009, when many lost works of hers were rediscovered.
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