Chicago Opera Review: BEL CANTO (Lyric Opera)
DISAPPOINTING DEBUT DELIVERS DAMAGED GOODS Lyric Opera's world premiere production of Bel Canto fails to live up to its name (translation: beautiful singing). While first-time opera composer Jimmy López expressly does not attempt to write in the bel canto style, neither does he write beautiful vocal lines"at least not very many, or enough, of them. […]