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

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ChicagoCanellakis, Tao & Tchaikovsky 5

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Chicago Symphony Center, Apr 30, May 01 mat, 02, 03 mat
Dvořák, Bartók, Tchaikovsky
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Karina Canellakis; Conrad Tao
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ChicagoVoice of Nature: The Anthropocene

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Lyric Opera House, Sat 2 May at 19:00
Renée Fleming, Soprano
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ChicagoDiDonato Performs Neruda Songs

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Chicago Symphony Center, May 07, 08, 09
Barber, Lieberson, Walton
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Edward Gardner; Joyce DiDonato
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

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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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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera brings Spanish to the Lyric Opera

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Graham Meyer, 29 Mar
The Lyric Opera of Chicago's presentation of El último sueño de Frida y Diego brings the Mexican artists to life... or at least a life reminiscent of their real ones.
****1
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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.
****1
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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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