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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=17320</guid>
		<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>
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		<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: The Magic Flute/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/13/review-the-magic-flutelyric-opera-2/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/13/review-the-magic-flutelyric-opera-2/#comments</comments>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=16221</guid>
		<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>
		<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: 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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