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		<title>The Players: The Fifty People Who Really Perform in Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Hieggelke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our criteria shifted back to artistic accomplishment in theater, dance, comedy and opera this year, our task got infinitely tougher. Because while the number of performing venues grows at a steady rate, the increase in the number of noteworthy artists seems to grow exponentially. For everyone we name on the list below, we had [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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>
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		<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>
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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: 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>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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<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: Carmen/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/03/14/review-carmenlyric-opera-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alain Altinoglu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bizet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Jovanovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Aldrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katharine Goeldner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Kettleson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nadia Krasteva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Cabell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED For those Lyric Opera subscribers who missed the October performances of “Carmen” and instead have tickets to the March performances, there is good news: this recast incarnation is a far stronger production. The fall production had been planned around the Lyric debut of mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich in the title role a mere five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Hercules/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/03/07/review-herculeslyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice Coote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Nally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Owens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Bicket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy Crowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera Chorus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Sellars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Croft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophocles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED “War Follows You Home,” read the posters promoting Peter Sellars’ new production of Handel’s “Hercules” at Lyric Opera. Unlike his last production here—John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic,” where Sellars concocted his own libretto from nuclear formulae—Sellars has this time taken an existing work, an oratorio by Handel, and via extensive cuts and staging, cobbled a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hero’s Life: Johan Botha on life as a world-class heldentenor</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/02/21/a-hero%e2%80%99s-life-johan-botha-on-life-as-a-world-class-heldentenor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Heppner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brenda Rein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Voigt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johan Botha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Strauss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Mason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow “Enraptured” is the word most often used to describe experiencing Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at Lyric Opera (through March 8), heard here for the first time in thirty-one years. Under retiring general director William Mason, the thinking was to generally alternate seasons between Wagner and Richard Strauss, the two most expensive composers to produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Lohengrin/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/02/15/review-lohengrinlyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayreuth Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Nally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Palumbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Magee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Marton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georg Zeppenfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greer Grimsley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johan Botha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lester Lynch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michaela Schuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Clocking in at four-and-a-half-plus hours and taking thirty-plus years to get back to Lyric Opera, “Lohengrin” is once again riding in on a swan—or in this case, a projected swan silhouette—for a stunning evening of musical theater as only Wagner could provide it. No, this is hardly the new production that was originally promised, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyric Opera announces 2011-2012 season</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/02/01/lyric-opera-announces-2011-2012-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Kelsey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Season Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyric Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Polenzani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Gunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renée Fleming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Andrew Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sondra Radvanovsk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Mason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the press release from the Lyric Opera: William Mason’s final season as general director Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 57th season begins Saturday, October 1, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. THE TALES OF HOFFMANN starring Matthew Polenzani, James Morris, Anna Christy, Erin Wall, &#38; Alyson Cambridge Also next season: Lucia di Lammermoor*, Boris Godunov, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Magic [...]]]></description>
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