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

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ChicagoMadama ButterflyNew production

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Lyric Opera House, Mar 19, 22 mat, 25 mat, 28, 31, Apr 06, 09 mat, 12 mat
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Domingo Hindoyan; Matthew Ozawa; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Maiko Matsushima; Yuki Nakase Link; Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra; Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus
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ChicagoAn Opera Night with Riccardo Muti

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Chicago Symphony Center, Mar 19, 20, 21
Verdi, Giordano, Catalani, Puccini
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti; Francesco Meli; Lidia Fridman; Chicago Symphony Chorus
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ChicagoClassical Elements

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Chicago Symphony Center, Mar 21 mat, mat
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Mei-Ann Chen
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Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening

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Graham Meyer, 19 Feb
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Designate juxtaposes his Finnish countryman's music on their shared national epic, the Kalevala, with the heroic life limned in the tone poem of Richard Strauss.
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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
****1
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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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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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