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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Stephany]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Chicago Opera Theater announces 2012 season</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/03/24/chicago-opera-theater-announces-2011-2012-season/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/03/24/chicago-opera-theater-announces-2011-2012-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Kelsey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Season Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Opera Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Curnyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dimitri Shostakovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Darrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Donahue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the press release from Chicago Opera Theater: CHICAGO OPERA THEATER ANNOUNCES THE 2012 SEASON BRIAN DICKIE’S LAST SEASON AT CHICAGO OPERA THEATER! Featuring the People’s Opera Winner, Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki, The last opera in COT’s “Medea” trilogy, Handel’s Teseo, And a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute in the fall of 2012.    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Players 2011: The 50 people who really perform in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/01/19/the-players-the-50-people-who-really-perform-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Ensemble Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brett Batterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dennehy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charna Halpern]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Aykroyd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the economy slowly lifts us back to our feet and we look around, we see a remarkable sight: a performance industry in Chicago that survived the worst recession since the Great Depression wholly intact. Sure, we had a few brushes with death, and no doubt a few very small, very new theater companies threw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Loses a Player: Brian Dickie to leave Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/01/13/chicago-loses-a-player-brian-dickie-to-leave-chicago-opera-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/01/13/chicago-loses-a-player-brian-dickie-to-leave-chicago-opera-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[-News etc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gregory O’Leary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Fogel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Dickie, who has been a major force in Chicago performance culture since taking the helm at COT back in 1999, is announcing his plan to return to London in 2012. Here&#8217;s the press release: General Director Brian Dickie to leave Chicago Opera Theater in August of 2012. CHICAGO, IL (January 13, 2011) – General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte &amp; The Marriage of Figaro/Chicago Symphony Orchestra &amp; Chorus at Ravinia</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/08/02/preview-mozart%e2%80%99s-cosi-fan-tutte-the-marriage-of-figaro-chicago-symphony-orchestra-chorus-at-ravinia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ana Micaroa Martinez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Gunn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED During the early decades of the twentieth century, Ravinia was the summer opera capital of the United States. Concert opera was also the centerpiece of the twenty-two-year Ravinia music directorship of James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera. That tradition stopped under Christoph Eschenbach but has continued on under James Conlon, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Three Decembers/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/05/10/review-three-decemberschicago-opera-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Opera Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederica von Stade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jake Heggie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Worth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Park’s Harris Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ravinia Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Jakubiak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sondheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrence McNally]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With all of the hullabaloo concerning mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade’s “farewell” performances in Chicago, it would be wonderful to report that Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Jake Heggie’s “Three Decembers” is a work worthy of the occasion. Alas, such is not the case. The ninety-minute one-act “opera”—and the term is loosely used—originally written for von [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Jason/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/04/26/review-jasonchicago-opera-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2010/04/26/review-jasonchicago-opera-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baroque Band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Dickie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian Curnyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francesco Cavalli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franco Fagioli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garry Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grazia Doronzio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monteverdi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sasha Cooke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The celebrated music director of a major opera company once admitted to me that he thought that Mozart “invented” opera as we know it. “Never mind all of that Monteverdi nonsense,” he pontificated, the works of whom he admitted he had never seen performed, and as if that was all there was before Mozart. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Moses in Egypt/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/04/19/review-moses-in-egyptchicago-opera-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Concetti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The last time that you could have heard Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt” in Chicago was in 1863, when a touring Italian company happened to bring the piece to the McVickers Theatre downtown. The Civil War was raging and we had an Illinois resident with low popularity in the White House by the name of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settling Old Scores: Chicago scholar Philip Gossett rescues Rossini for a new era</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/04/12/settling-old-scores-chicago-scholar-philip-gossett-rescues-rossini-for-a-new-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cecil B. DeMille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecilia Bartoli]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Merritt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Horne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow For many of the even most seasoned opera goers, Gioachino Rossini was thought of as a “one-hit wonder.” “It’s true,” agrees Italian opera scholar and University of Chicago professor Philip Gossett. “For a very long time, ‘The Barber of Seville’ was the only Rossini opera you got to hear consistently in America. [...]]]></description>
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