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

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ChicagoPetr Popelka & Hilary Hahn

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Chicago Symphony Center, Sep 17, 18 mat, 19
Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvořák
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Hilary Hahn
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ChicagoLiliom – Joffrey Ballet

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Lyric Opera House, Sep 17, 18, 19 mat, eve, 20 mat, 24, 25, 26 mat, eve, 27 mat
Legrand: Liliom
John Neumeier; Joffrey Ballet; Ferdinand Wögerbauer; Jim French
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ChicagoMäkelä Conducts Sibelius & Shostakovich

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Chicago Symphony Center, Sep 24, 25 mat, 26
Sibelius, Shostakovich
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Klaus Mäkelä
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Haymarket Opera treats Chicago to compelling Baroque brotherly love

Charpentier's David et Jonathas © Elliot Mandel
No’a L. bat Miri, 21 Jun
In a rare performance of Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, Jory Vinikour leads a small ensemble to the heights of religious art music.
*****
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Edward Gardner: quietly impressive in Chicago

Edward Gardner conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra © Todd Rosenberg Photography
Graham Meyer, 07 May
Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs with the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato teem with subtle brilliances. 
*****
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

Jakub Hrůša and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra © Todd Rosenberg Photography
Graham Meyer, 09 Apr
Jakub Hrůša leads the CSO in pedestrian Janáček and Rachmaninov, but Strauss's Four Last Songs and Wagner's Tristan excerpts send audiences home deeply touched.
***11
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Ravinia Festival to undergo sweeping $75m renovation

Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform at Ravinia Festival Pavilion © Ravinia Festival
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

Samantha Ege © Jason Dodd
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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