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

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ChicagoBeethoven 5 & Mao Fujita

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Chicago Symphony Center, Nov 05, 06 mat, 07, 08 mat
Wagner, Strauss R., Beethoven
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Marek Janowski; Mao Fujita
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ChicagoYo-Yo Ma & the CSO

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Chicago Symphony Center, Wed, 11 Nov at 19:30
Ginastera, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Carlos Miguel Prieto; Yo-Yo Ma
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ChicagoDon PasqualeNew production

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Lyric Opera House, Nov 12, 15 mat, 18 mat, 21, 24, 27
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Enrique Mazzola; Mariame Clément; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Julia Hansen; Bernd Purkrabek; Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra
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Chicago’s Omar: strong score clashes with undirected storytelling

Issachah Savage (Omar) and Kearstin Piper Brown (Julie) © Cory Weaver | Lyric Opera of Chicago
Graham Meyer, 23 Oct
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the local premiere of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' opera, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. 
***11
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Prismatic Petrushka highlights Klaus Mäkelä’s vibrant Chicago program

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra © Todd Rosenberg Photography
Sam Jacobson, 9 Oct
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony through a display of orchestral color, from Stravinsky’s kaleidoscopic Petrushka to the exuberant grandeur of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.
*****
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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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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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