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		<title>Review: The Magic Flute/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/13/review-the-magic-flutelyric-opera-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August Everding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Castronovo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorenzo Da Ponte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Lata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Cabell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stéphane Degout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The perfect Mozart opera? Most would pick “The Marriage of Figaro,” some “Don Giovanni,” perhaps a handful even “Così fan tutte,” all Mozart collaborations with brilliant librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. And yet, for comedy, fantasy and intrigue, “The Magic Flute” has to top the list. A product of those much romanticized last months of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Ariadne auf Naxos/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/29/review-ariadne-auf-naxoslyric-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/29/review-ariadne-auf-naxoslyric-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice Coote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amber Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Christy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Jovanovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Voigt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johan Botha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Strauss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Perdziola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED During the recently ended Bill Mason era at Lyric Opera, the philosophy was that works of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss had to alternate for attention to contain costs of the huge orchestra needed for these works. This year, however, the Strauss opera presented, “Ariadne auf Naxos,” employs a chamber orchestra, yet nonetheless was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Boris Godunov/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/15/review-boris-godunovlyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Silvestrelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Gudunov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dimitri Shostakovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Nally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Palumbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Mout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erik Nelson Werner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferruccio Furlanetto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mussorgsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rimsky-Korsakov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Ramey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wagner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED “Boris Godunov” is making a return appearance to Lyric Opera for the first time in some seventeen years, a long time to go without hearing the crown jewel of Russian opera. What is needed to make it work is a bass extraordinaire who doesn’t come around all that often. Lyric had to wait its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Lucia di Lammermoor/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/11/review-lucia-di-lammermoorlyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Malfitano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donizetti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giuseppe Filianoti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massimo Zanetti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[René Barbera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susanna Phillips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It is telling that in a series of promotional videos that Lyric Opera music director Sir Andrew Davis and creative consultant Renée Fleming made to promote the new season, Davis admits that he is not partial to the bel canto repertoire before he nonetheless waxes on about the melodic appeal of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Tales of Hoffmann/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/04/review-the-tales-of-hoffmanlyric-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/04/review-the-tales-of-hoffmanlyric-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alyson Cambridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Christy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erin Wall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ezio Frigerio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Polenzani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Joel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stéphane Roche]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=15524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The projected translation “I stumbled on a barren landscape” received a hearty laugh at Saturday’s lavish Lyric Opera opening night, given that much of Wacker Drive surrounding the Civic Opera House is in such a state of reconstructive disarray that just accessing the Opera House became a pre-opening-night scavenger hunt for patrons, some joking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/09/07/preview-stars-of-lyric-opera-at-millennium-park-2/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/09/07/preview-stars-of-lyric-opera-at-millennium-park-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Christy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Fons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmanuel Villaume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Barton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ljubomir Puškaric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Polenzani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[René Barbera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renée Fleming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susanna Philips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED  Although billed annually as “Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park,” there have been some years where the billing has had a noticeable dog star or two. But this year, the first such concert since soprano Renée Fleming was named creative consultant at Lyric Opera, Fleming’s presence as the reigning superstar soprano in the world today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Student Prince/Light Opera Works</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/23/review-the-student-princelight-opera-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale Benson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danielle Knox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Light Opera Works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger L. Bingaman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudy Hogenmiller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sigmund Romberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bennett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=14724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Light Opera Works actually giving us—well, light opera works—is always a special treat, given how much emphasis the company has come to place on musicals in recent years. And the only operetta offering of the season is tailor-made for the resources of the Evanston-based company: Sigmund Romberg’s delightful “The Student Prince,” which has not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: María de Buenos Aires/Chicago Summer Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/10/preview-maria-de-buenos-aireschicago-summer-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/10/preview-maria-de-buenos-aireschicago-summer-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Dance Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ástor Piazzolla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catalina Cuervo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Summer Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elbio Barilari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerardo Moreira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horacio Ferrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Niedas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raul Jaurena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ricardo Herrera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Vargas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=14589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Here’s something you won’t see at Lyric Opera, and not likely even at Chicago Opera Theater: a tango opera. We tend to think of the tango as largely an instrumental genre and of its greatest exponent, Argentine composer and bandoneón virtuoso Ástor Piazzolla, as the master of the genre. In 1968, however, Piazzolla wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Médée (Medea)/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/04/26/review-medee-medeachicago-opera-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/04/26/review-medee-medeachicago-opera-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Stephany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baroque Band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charpentier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Opera Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Curnyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Ainsworth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED A Chicago premiere, more than three centuries after a work was first performed? Welcome to Charpentier’s “Médée,” that seventeenth-century chestnut that as a byproduct of the court of Louis XIV fell into neglect until being rediscovered by the modern early music movement of the 1980s and nineties. It had been a long-stated desire of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Death and the Powers/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/04/05/review-death-and-the-powerschicago-opera-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/04/05/review-death-and-the-powerschicago-opera-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex McDowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Modern Orchestra Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Eno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Opera Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerson Lake & Palmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gil Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR Giger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Maddalena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tod Machover]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Combining all of the art forms as it does in a live setting,  opera is the ultimate human creation. A cursory look at the history of the genre reveals that, at its best, opera remains a step ahead of culture whether in the form of the cutting-edge eighteenth-century operas of Mozart, or the nineteenth-century [...]]]></description>
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