Opera as Idea and Performance: Class 4/5
We’re about halfway through spring quarter, and I can’t believe how fast it’s been going so far. I haven’t updated on … Continue reading Opera as Idea and Performance: Class 4/5
We’re about halfway through spring quarter, and I can’t believe how fast it’s been going so far. I haven’t updated on … Continue reading Opera as Idea and Performance: Class 4/5
Finally! After missing the Muti-led CSO performances of Verdi’s Otello and Macbeth a couple of years ago, I got to hear the … Continue reading Falstaff
Over the past couple of days, I’ve had the absolutely incredible experience of attending two rehearsals led by Maestro Riccardo Muti, (who is … Continue reading Rehearsals with Maestro Muti
There was a poll done by Gramophone a while ago about the ranking of the world’s greatest orchestras, and taking … Continue reading Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Chicago
Just finished the third opera class with Lyric Opera General Director Anthony Freud and UChicago Law Professor Martha Nussbaum at the … Continue reading Opera as Idea and Performance: Class 3
2nd week of spring quarter is finished – and with that comes another post about the opera class I am taking … Continue reading Opera as Idea and Performance: Class 2
What a way to kick off the CSO’s Shakespeare celebration – Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet is not an opera, but last … Continue reading Muti Conducts Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet
Wednesday night was another CSO Afterwork Masterworks concert (last one of the series actually) featuring violinist Gil Shaham in the … Continue reading Afterwork Masterworks: Mälkki and Shaham
The first week of spring quarter is just about to wrap up and I have to say that the opera … Continue reading Opera as Idea and Performance: Class 1