#Lyric Opera of Chicago

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

DEAD. ABSOLUTELY DEAD.

#for the uninitiated this is an alternate take on ‘you and me and your friend steve’ #opera tag #opera #la fille du régiment #the daughter of the regiment #donizetti #gaetano donizetti #your dad sulpice! #everyone’s favorite opera dad figure #(well one of them) #lyric opera of chicago

[paulinedorchester]

I've just learned that Sir Andrew Davis, among other things Music Director of Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2000 until 2021, died yesterday. A great artist and from what I saw, a really nice person.

#sir andrew davis #lyric opera of chicago #chicago performing arts

[thesongofpurplesummer]

He’s like Natalie May Paris in Six the musical

#kyle coffman #west side story #wss #lyric opera of chicago #musicals #broadway #dancing #i feel pretty #gee officer krupke #actors #theatre #newsies #henry newsies #dancer

[sexygoofball]

Erte for Lyric Opera, Chicago 1968.

#art deco #lyric opera of chicago

[ce-archerhelke]

#make bicycling safer #biking Chicago #lyric opera of chicago #Chicago #stickers in public places #decorated bike #unique transportation

[jdunlevy]

Guests at the Last Frontier pool watched as a mushroom cloud rose from the Simon Test, part of the Operation Upshot-Knothole, at the Nevada Test Site outside of Las Vegas on April 25, 1953. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a calendar for tourists, listing the scheduled times of the bomb detonations and the best places to view them.

When I saw this photo shared on Facebook by the National Atomic Testing Museum (Atomic Museum), I was thinking what a contrast from just eight years earlier when Enrico Fermi was taking bets ahead of the Trinity test about whether a nuclear detonation would ignite the atmosphere and possibly destroy the world. That’s an episode recounted in John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic which I saw at Lyric Opera in the 2007/8 season.

I knew Fermi wasn’tserious, but hadn’t understood that by that time that particular catastrophe had already been ruled out by scientists as even a remote possibility, but the idea that it at least might have been possible lived on in the more popular imagination for some time.

#nuclear weapons #nuclear tests #1953 #history #tourism #Las Vegas #Simon Test #Operation Upshot-Knothole #Nevada Test Side #Nevada #Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce #Atomic Museum Vegas #National Atomic Testing Museum #Enrico Fermi #opera #John Adams #Lyric Opera of Chicago #Doctor Atomic

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

i never need to hear an opera compared to champagne ever again

#chicago lyric opera there is more than one way to describe a comic opera #find a new simile

[leporellian]

you lose a love, you gain a friend

#i miss drawing cityscapes. which is funny bc i complained abt them Nonstop when i had to draw em weekly back when i was running a webcomic #anyway. wanted to draw the chicago river. also wanted to draw lep and elvira. so... modern au compromise #specifically this is the lyric opera bridge theyre standing on #don giovanni #leporello #donna elvira #opera tag #misc scribbling

[malusienki]

you know i do miss living in illinois because on literally every corner you could find a polish deli/polish store. like what. my grandma has a straight up list of places she goes .

so anyway that’s why i hate it here (<- does not have access to a steady supply of polish ketchup) (it’s not all too bad here i just. grr)

#misc #there’s one (1) singular polish store and it is a thirty minute drive and they don’t even have the right brand of polish ketchup #the other one is Different i Promise #it has to be pudliszki. it has to be. łagodny or pikantny does not matter as long as it is that brand specifically #also just like. other stuff . coughs lyric opera is in chicago #and it’s like right after you get off the metra too . just cross the bridge #uhmmm there’s this kickass froyo place across from my grandma’s house [will not be naming] #it’s so banger #it is soooo banger #i was able to walk to school in middle school too which was fun. walking to/from school in a blizzard? less fun but it was an experience. #oops i kind of wrote a lot in the tags. ash gets sentimental. #so this is why i consider chicago my home #TTHE MOZART IMMERSIVE OVER THE SUMMER WAS FUCKIGN LVOELY WE WALKED 7 MILES THAT DAY.

[shredsandpatches]

I am beginning to feel like there's a tendency in staged productions of La Damnation de Faust to overestimate the abstraction of the score/libretto and just put a whole lot of visual business into it that's not really necessary to tell the story or convey the emotions involved. On the other hand, this mental image is deeply hilarious.

#this is about the 2010 chicago lyric opera production #dir. stephen langridge #it seems to have been set in 1980s east germany #as such it is the second least weird staging of la damnation i have heard of #(the 2008 met production is the least weird) #and like i get why people want to stage it! #there's a lot you can get out of just letting the actors interact physically #but some versions i have read about just seem to depart completely from the words being sung #la damnation de faust #hot faust summer

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

y’all who got to see lyric la fille du régiment with lisette oropesa and lawrence brownlee and alessandro corbelli and others…know i am so jealous <3 (but i love you)

#well in fairness i did see mariah carey so. #but yeah. envious! #opera tag #opera #la fille du régiment #the daughter of the regiment #donizetti #gaetano donizetti #lyric opera of chicago

[paulinedorchester]

Meanwhile...

Anthony Freud always comes across as a very nice person, but I have very mixed feelings about his tenure here. To be sure, a lot of the company's current problems are pandemic-related, but his judgement about dealing with them has been questionable a lot of the time. His tastes are apparently very narrow; he seems genuinely to believe that opera, real opera, begins with Mozart, and anything earlier is at best a curiosity. Since he's been at the helm we've had one opera by Handel and one by Gluck (both in horrid, sexed-up productions), and that's it.

Meanwhile, last season there was back-to-back Verdi and this season we had two bel canto operas. That doesn't make for balance, kiddo. And while I thoroughly endorse his commitment to new and very recent operas, the contemporary works we've seen here during the past 12 years, including three Lyric commissions, have ranged from mediocre to really, really bad.

The article mentions the 2018 orchestra strike, but doesn't mention that part of what led to it was the players' unhappiness over the discontinuation of the opening-night live broadcasts, which were recorded and then syndicated around the world. Funding for that dried up; why hasn't restoring it been a priority?

On the positive side, Mr. Freud has expanded Lyric's young artists' program to include not only singers but also conductors, stage directors and mangers, and collaborative pianists; has also greatly expanded youth outreach (pre-pandemic, there was a council of area high school students who met to talk about opera and bat ideas around); and was of course a key player in bringing in Enrique Mazzola, Lyric's new music director.

#lyric opera of chicago #anthony freud #opera

[guy60660]

Lyric Opera Chicago | The Flying Dutchman

#the flying dutchman #lyric opera chicago #art

[vera-dauriac]

Um, operablr, particularly the Mariusz Kwiecien corner. I was poking around Spotify and realized that Chicago Lyric put out a bunch of live recordings last year. I've listened to their really good Trovatore several times, but I only realized tonight that they've done others. Include Mariusz's 2014 Don Giovanni. I'm so happy, I'm practically crying.

#mariusz kwiecien #don giovanni #mozart #chicago lyric #maybe y'all knew this #but this was totally news to me #have i mentioned how happy this makes me? #opera #Spotify

[ce-archerhelke]

#lyric opera of chicago #lyric opera bridge #Chicago #graffti #graffittiart #madison street bridge #madison and wacker

[schriefercreativeco]

📍 Lyric Opera House, Chicago

📷 @shorterbrief

#chicago #covid times #lyrico opera house #madison street #lyric opera bridge #photographer #city #sky scrapers #photo of the day #panasonic #panasonic lumix #photography