Chicago Opera Theater double bill jarring but effective
On paper, the current pairing by Chicago Opera Theater of two Central European and German one-act operas from 1943 appears jarring. Especially so when one was written in the Terezin concentration camp by a Jewish composer who was gassed the next year at Auschwitz, the other by a free man in Nazi Germany who went on to wealth and fame after the war and died in his native Munich in 1982. But COT is all about risk-takin…