New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Chicago Opera Theater
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Queenie Pie and the ladies’ man, Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie, Chicago Opera Theater’s last production of the season, draws on his own life as well as that of Madam C. J. Walker.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/20: Literary Rock and Roll, High School Hockey Championships, and Queenie Pie
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, March 20
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Chicago Opera Theater’s controversial Joan of Arc burns on
A play-within-a-play presentation of the early Verdi opera inflames the critics.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 8/21: Opera Underground Cruise, Mary Gauthier, and Two Authors Talking
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, August 21
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Brave and boobilicious: Chicago Opera Theater’s Maria de Buenos Aires
Chicago Opera Theater’s Maria de Buenos Aires takes on Argentina’s Dirty War, exposing the facts and more.
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Tonight and Friday: Chicago Opera Theater’s sexed-up The Fall of the House of Usher
Chicago Opera Theater takes Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher into the realm of repressed sexual identity.
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Under a new general director, Chicago Opera Theater aims to seduce
Under general director Andreas Mitisek, Chicago Opera Theater courts a new audience.
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Chicago Opera Theater does Teseo
Chicago Opera Theater brings Handel’s rarely produced Teseo to Chicago.
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Andreas Mitisek will head both Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera
Chicago Opera Theater hires Long Beach Opera head Andreas Mitisek.
Posted inMusic
Implodes’ overdue debut, fingerstyle prodigy Ryley Walker, and a ‘moving painting’ at Chicago Opera Theater
INDIE | A party for Implodes’ overdue debut It took them three and a half years, but on April 20 local four-piece Implodes finally released their debut album, Black Earth (Kranky). The drone-psych group started in late 2007, when guitarists Matt Jencik and Ken Camden (coworkers at Reckless Records) started playing acoustic jam sessions together. […]
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Chicago Opera Theater’s Three Decembers
Grab it while you can: the very short run of Chicago Opera Theater’s remarkable Three Decembers ends May 16.
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The List: April 29-May 5, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Quasi, Jason Collett, Skeletonwitch, Los Campesinos!, Harlem, the Gundecha Brothers, and more
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Toni Preckwinkle on The Interview Show; Next Up, Steve James & Kid Sister
Mark Bazer’s latest lineup of local luminaries.
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11/14-11/20—Free Events From Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater’s free performances during National Opera Week