The Opera Festival of Chicago Pairs “La Boheme” with a Rarer Paris-Set Masterwork
Sasha Gerritson, the festival's general director, shares their plans for the summer season, titled "Bohemian Tragedy," and discusses the strategy behind it.
Sasha Gerritson, the festival's general director, shares their plans for the summer season, titled "Bohemian Tragedy," and discusses the strategy behind it.
The classic Elijah Moshinsky stagings of Mascagni and Leoncavallo's works follows the opera's season-opening mounting of Cherubini's "Medea."
Ponnelle's mounting remains a near-ideal take on the piece, and his whimsical grey-stone settings and eye-catching costumes emit as much fairytale dazzle as ever.
When Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore" premiered in 1853, it was the second of a trio of masterpieces including "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" that emerged in the composer's "middle" career per…