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		<title>Review: Teseo/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/24/review-teseo-chicago-opera-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baroque Band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecilia Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Opera Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Trudgen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deanna Breiwick.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francesco Cavalli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[François-Pierre Couture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Frideric Handel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Darrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Pike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuela Bisceglie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Beattie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renée Tatum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The third time is the charm, as it turns out. Handel’s “Teseo” (“Theseus”), crowning Chicago Opera Theater’s spring season and the penultimate opera of Brian Dickie’s general directorship, is also the last of COT’s Baroque opera “Medea” trilogy that began with 2010’s production of Cavalli’s “Giasone” (“Jason”) and continued with last year’s production of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Moscow, Cheryomushki/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/16/review-moscow-cheryomushkichicago-opera-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brezhnev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Opera Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitri Shostakovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Sean Fogel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grigory Stolyarov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khrushchev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow Operetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stalin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Brian Dickie has certainly given Chicago many firsts and many thrills in his twelve years as general director of Chicago Opera Theater, but Dickie has saved one of his best for last: the professional Chicago premiere of a satirical musical by, of all people, Dmitri Shostakovich. With Stalin having declared modernism and the avant-garde [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Aida/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/13/review-aidalyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Smirnova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August Everding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hui He]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth von Heidecke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcello Giordani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Berti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quinn Kelsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renato Palumbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sondra Radvanovsky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED On paper, at least, the first cast of Lyric Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Aida” that opened in January looked as if it would be the premier cast, and indeed, had a lot going for it with Verdi heroine extraordinaire Sondra Radvanovsky as Aida, Italian tenor Marcello Giordani as Radames and mezzo soprano Jill Grove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Rinaldo/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/03/review-rinaldolyric-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/03/review-rinaldolyric-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elza van den Heever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francesco Negrin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Frideric Handel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Bicket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jory Vinkikour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Kleiter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Désiré]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Long before the renaissance of Handel’s operas being performed in their complete form, virtually everyone knew an aria or two from his opera “Rinaldo.” Such pieces, in fact, as they were heard in vocal recitals and on recording anthologies were the only glimpse many opera lovers had into this vast world at a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Show Boat/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/02/14/review-show-boatlyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alyson Cambridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Renée Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cindy Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edna Ferber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florenz Ziegfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francesca Zambello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerome Kern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John DeMain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Gunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Hammerstein II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Robeson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lehman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED In the world of musical theater, the genre is divided between B.S.B. (Before Show Boat) and A.S.B (After Show Boat), so revolutionary a work was “Show Boat” when it first premiered nearly eighty-five years ago. So revolutionary, in fact, that we have to almost remind ourselves that “Show Boat” began life as a 1926 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Boris Godunov/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/15/review-boris-godunovlyric-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/15/review-boris-godunovlyric-opera/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/11/review-lucia-di-lammermoorlyric-opera/#comments</comments>
		<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>

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		<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>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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=13020</guid>
		<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>
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		<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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