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| 2012 |
COT announces casts, schedule changes
-Chicago Tribune
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| 2011 |
Tod Machover’s envelope-pushing Death and the Powers was the undisputed opera highlight of the year.
-ChicagoClassicalReview.com
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Newcity's Top 5 of Everything 2011: Stage
-Newcity Stage
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The Best of Chicago Classical : 2011 In Review
-TimeOut Chicago
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Call to Cause: Opera for Teens
An After School Matters program instills a love of opera
among high school students
-Michigan Avenue Magazine
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Chicago Opera Theater announces the appointment of Andreas Mitisek as General Director
New Chicago Opera Theater chief Andreas Mitisek
outlines bold vision
-Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Opera Theater jumps into the talent pool
-Chicago Sun Times
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Andreas Mitisek, general director, Chicago Opera Theater
-Chicago Tribune-Moving On Up
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Andreas Mitisek to Lead Chicago Opera Theater
-TimeOut Chicago
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Andreas Mitisek will head both Chicago Opera Theater
and Long Beach Opera
-Chicago Reader
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Envelope-pushing Andreas Mitisek tapped to succeed Brian Dickie
at Chicago Opera Theater
-Chicago Classical Review
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Opera News
-Windy City Times
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Long Beach Opera's Andreas Mitisek adds a new post in Chicago
-Los Angeles Times
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Chicago Opera Theater appoints new director
-Opera Now
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Andreas Mitisek Appointed General Director of Chicago Opera Theater
-Opera News
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Chicago Opera Theater names General Director
-Daily Herald
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Chicago Opera Theater welcomes a new
General Director
-WBEZ91.5 Onstage Backstage
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Chicago Opera Theater picks new General Director
-WBEZ91.5
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Andreas Mitisek to lead Chicago Opera Theater 9/1/12
-Broadway World
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Mitisek named as Chicago Opera Theater director
-ABC 7 News
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Long Beach Opera director will head Chicago Opera Theater
-Crain's Chicago Business
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Chicago Opera Theater Appoints Andreas Mitisek As General Director
-The Contrapunist
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Long Beach’s Mitisek Adds Chicago Opera Title
-Gazettes.com
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He/She
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"COT is the fun uncle who’s not afraid to cross the line after a few too many brandy sours.”
-TimeOut Chicago
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Medea
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COT brings out human side of ‘Medea’
-Chicago Sun Times
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COT's 'Medea' gives the mythic sorceress a modern makeover
-Chicago Tribune
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Death and the Powers
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"Cue the robots – opera for the digital era arrives at COT."
-Chicago Tribune
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"‘Robots’ Opera’ proves Chicago the next stage
in the future of opera."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Interview: Tod Machover, creator of the 'Death and the Powers'"
-Time Out Chicago
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"Critic's Choice"
-Chicago Reader
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"Machover’s “robot opera” to kick off Chicago Opera Theater season."
-Chicago Classical Review
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"'Death and the Powers' takes operatic look at immortality"
-Medill News Service
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"Opera plugs in to the high-tech"
-LA Times
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Brian Dickie to depart COT in 2012
"Breaking News: Brian Dickie is coming home"
-Arts Journal (blog)
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"COT general director Brian Dickie to step down 2012"
-Chicago Tribune
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"General Director Brian Dickie to leave Chicago Opera Theater
in August of 2012"
-Broadway World
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"Chicago OperaTheater's Brian Dickie to step down in August 2012"
-Time Out Chicago (blog)
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"Brian Dickie to exit Chicago Opera Theater in 2012"
-Chicago Classical Review
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"Chicago Opera Theater chief Dickie steps down"
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Chicago Opera Theater Director to Leave"
-Chicagoist
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"Dickie to Step Down at Chicago Opera Theater"
-Chicago Daily Herald
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COT announces their 2011 Season
"Opera Theater puts innovation on calendar"
-Chicago Tribune
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"Chicago Opera Theater unveils diverse 2011 season"
-Chicago Sun-Times
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| 2010 |
"It was a very good year in Classical Music"
-Chicago Tribune
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"Chicago Opera Theater spring season nears"
-Chicago Tribune
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"COT takes it to the limit for 2010"
-Chicago Sun-Times
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An Evening with Frederica von Stade and Jake Heggie
"Unlike those singers who keep performing well past their sell-by dates, Frederica von Stade is going into retirement in good vocal shape, head held proudly."
-Chicago Tribune
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"Happiness, really, all the way around."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"To no one’s surprise, Frederica von Stade’s Chicago farewell recital offered one of the musical highlights of the year."
-Chicago Classical Review
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Jake Heggie on Windy City Queercast, May 2nd, 2010
3 AND A HALF STARS
"It's sharp and witty and poignant ... an engaging crowd-pleaser. Von Stade looks sensational, and she sounds as if she could continue to sing beautifully for at least another decade."
-Chicago Tribune
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“If there's not a scalpers' market for Chicago Opera Theater's remarkable Three Decembers, there should be: with a total of only four performancesone already historyit ought to be the hottest ticket in town."
-Chicago Reader
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“Heggie’s opera…was effectively put across by Chicago Opera Theater’s stylish production and three terrific singers."
-Chicago Classical Review
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“A seamless musical experience."
-Chicago Stage Review
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“The main reason truly die-hard opera fans should rush out to see "Three Decembers" is to catch the Chicago farewell performances of retiring American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade."
-Daily Herald
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
"Add Three Decembers to your list of 'Must See' operas."
-Chicago Critic
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"
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer have created a first-rate modern American work that proves that the new American opera is alive and well"
-OperaOnline
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“Theater fans will love the opera "Three Decembers" with Jake Hegge's beautiful music, its straightforward story, and a strong, touching performance by American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.”
-make it better
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"Von Stade is luminous, riveting, wonderfully graceful, radiating never-ending concentric circles of charisma as Madeline Mitchell"
-From The Ledge
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“I couldn't recommend Three Decembers any higher.”
-2 things @ once
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“It was an amazing evening of theater, ending with a well-deserved standing ovation.”
-Chicago Splash Magazine
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"THREE DECEMBERS, three acts, three singers... triple triumph! "
-The Fourth Walsh
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Three Decembers
Audience Reactions
"A great American artist will be offering the operatic part of her farewell to singing."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Heggie heads to Chicago"
-Windy City Times
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"After a packed 40-year career that made the great American mezzo-soprano one of the most beloved singers of her generation, von Stade is bidding a graceful adieu to the operatic and concert stage."
-Chicago Tribune
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FOUR STARS
"COT's 'Giasone' is a delight. You owe it to yourself to make its acquaintance."
-Chicago Tribune
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
"'Giasone' ('Jason') is absolutely hilarious as well as deeply moving and musically luscious."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Chicago Opera Theaters Jason (Giasone) is a spellbinding production that you do not want to miss!"
-Chicago Stage Review
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"COT deserves plaudits for reviving such an obscure work by a still largely obscure composer."
-Chicago Classical Review
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"Try it, you'll like it, once you give it a chance."
-Chicago Critic
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"'Jason' is a must-see."
-Newcity Chicago
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"Jason has it all! "
-The Fourth Walsh
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"This is a far out opera from top to toe, one you shouldn't miss."
-Hyde Park Herald
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"The Top 5 of Everything 2010: Stage"
-Newcity Stage
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
"Siân Davies...held the house captive"
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Praise be to Chicago Opera Theater"
-Chicago Tribune
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"Miraculous"
WFMT Critic-at-Large Andrew Patner on 04/21/2010
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"Simply not to be missed"
-Chicago Stage Review
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"Leonardo Vordoni's musical direction was faultless"
-Chicago Classical Review
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"Stellar work at the hands of Chicago Opera Theater"
-Newcity Chicago
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"It's been a long wait, and COT's production proves the opera is well worth it."
-Hyde Park Herald
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"Rossinis "Moses" soars from darkness to redemption"
-Chicago Theater Blog
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"Chicago Opera Theater's MOSES IN EGYPT is the biblical legend with a behind-the-plague romance sung with epic beauty."
-The Fourth Walsh
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"Settling Old Scores"
-Newcity Chicago
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| 2009 |
"Chicago Opera Theater's spring festival season made for surprisingly powerful music theatre."
—Opera (UK)
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"Four stars. (A) bold and compelling production…a surprisingly gripping piece of music theater."
—Chicago Tribune
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"Highly Recommended. Chicago Opera Theater's taut, fast-paced production offers (a) reassuring shock of the new."
—Chicago Sun-Times
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"COT's scrupulously mounted and handsomely cast production made the best possible case for ('Owen Wingrave')"
—The Wall Street Journal
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"'Owen Wingrave' made its Chicago debut in a brilliant Chicago Opera Theater production …a powerfully affecting evening of music drama"
—Opera News
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“With its cast of fine singing actors and a luminous chamber orchestra, COT has come up with a riveting production of Britten's next-to-last opera.”
—MusicalAmerica.com
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"It's a great climax to an outstanding season at Chicago's most interesting opera company."
—Chicago Reader
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" Dickie has assembled a wonderfully gifted cast of primarily young, relatively unknown singers who all turn in remarkable performances."
—Kent Devereaux
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“As Wingrave declares in Act 1: ‘Courage in peace, the kind that poets know, wins everything.’ Tonight was no exception.”
—Time Out Chicago Blog
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"Glory in the singing. Glory in the complex ideas given spiritual heft ... Chicago Opera Theater understands what it's all about"
—Hyde Park Herald
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“Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience this wonderfully executed, hauntingly atmospheric and thought-provoking production.”
—SteadStyleChicago.com
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“The young singers and luxuriously cast conductor proved on opening night that Britten's lesser known works are no less riveting than his masterpieces and deserve just as much attention.”
—ConcertoNet.com
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"It was almost as if the whole opera was building you up for the final twist of fate. It gave me a sense of unsettled mystery that gave way to a beautiful mixture of sadness and beauty.”
—ChicagoCritic.com
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"If 'Owen Wingrave' is anything as good as COT's previous Britten stagings - most recently, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in 2005 - you won't want to miss
it."
—Chicago Tribune
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"Those with a passion for the minimalist aesthetic will be enthralled by 'La Tragedie de Carmen' ... This Carmen is a realistic acting vehicle as much as a musical one."
—Chicago Sun-Times
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"Sandra Piques Eddy, a wonderful singing actress whose Carmen used her burgundy-rich low register as a powerful tool of seduction. Three Stars."
—Chicago Tribune
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“Alexander Platt made his small band cook, trading the lushness of a big string section for spare effects.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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“The more theatrically minded should find much satisfaction in COT's revival of Brook's searingly creative reimagining of a perennial favorite."
—Opera News
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“For those looking for an interesting retelling of the classic tale, ‘La Tragédie de Carmen’ is right on the money, and this production by the adventurous and beguiling Chicago Opera Theater is thrilling.”
—OperaOnline.us
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“A vivid, vocally impressive performance.”
—Chicago Classical Review
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"Cutting down original Carmen proves no tragedy for COT"
—Chicago Maroon
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“The singing by every member of the cast is phenomenal: sublime, seemingly effortless with swelling notes that cross the threshold between this world and the next.”
—Frank E. Lee, WXRT
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“Brook and Constant have created an exciting and satisfying play…and the show really moves and excites.”
—OnChicagoTheatre
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“Chicago Opera Theater's second opera of the 2009 Spring Festival Season sweeps us away on a turbulent sea of love gone bad and a musical wave of lyrical loveliness.”
—SteadStyleChicago.com
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"Highly Recommended. This Carmen is a most enticing opera, worthy of a long run.”
—ChicagoCritic.com
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“Alexander Platt highlighted the implacable immediacy of the tragic content of the work”
—Mundoclasico.com
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“Shorter version of 'Carmen' no less enticing”
—The Times of Northwest Indiana
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" **** This is an evening of modern music theater you mustn't miss."
—Chicago Tribune
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“High Praise for Chicago Opera Theater”
—MusicalAmerica.com
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"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Brian Dickie and Chicago Opera Theater have done it again."
—Chicago Sun-Times
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“Among the most musically satisfying evenings of the season."
—Opera News
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(The) first-rate cast of young singers assembled makes every piece a jewel.
—New City Chicago
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“Do not miss the opportunity to experience this idiosyncratically triumphant production that defines Chicago Opera Theater as a premier destination for masterfully delivered musical splendor.”
—SteadStyleChicago.com
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“Seldom produced Mozart opera a ravishing complete work.”
—ChicagoCritic.com
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“An outstanding and moving production that was well performed and exceptionally well sung.”
—OperaOnline.us
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“...it's smart, good-looking, and, in Alden's staging, often humorous.”
—Chicago Reader
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“Jane Glover...provided Mozart’s music with wide, almost neo-classical breath, flamboyant energy and impeccable taste.”
—Mundoclasico.com
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2009 Spring Festival Season
“Chicago Opera Theater: No second fiddle”
—Chicago Tribune
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“Top talent takes to Chicago Opera Theater”
—Chicago Sun-Times
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“This treasure of a troupe…”
—Chicago Tribune
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"This is a company that brings a centuries-old art form up into the
present time - it is totally fresh and exciting theater."
—Opera News
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Opera Less Ordinary on WHPK
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WFMT Critic-at-Large Andrew Patner on 08/28/2008
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Opera Theater, Mozart get serious
-Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Opera Theater unveils three-work season for '09
-Chicago Sun-Times
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Chicago Opera Theater continued to fill the offseason with worthy performances of repertory Chicago has never heard, or needs to hear more often.
-Chicago Tribune
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The most exciting development in Chicago opera was the arrival of Brian Dickie at Chicago Opera Theater, returning the company to its former glory and even vastly surpassing it.
-Newcity Chicago
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Shostakovich Declared the Winner in Chicago
-MusicalAmerica.com
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2009 TECHNOLOGY GUIDE: Culture Flash
-The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Expanding audiences and ambitions
-Chicago Tribune
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| 2008 |
Alan Stone, Chicago Opera Theater Founder (1929-2008)
Alan Stone, Founded Chicago Opera Theater
-Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Opera Theater Mourns The Loss Of Founder Alan Stone
-Playbill Arts
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Alan Stone, 1929-2008
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Alan Stone, 79, Founder and Former Artistic Director of Chicago Opera Theater, Has Died
-Opera News
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Best of 2008
"It was a banner year for classical music in Chicago."
—Chicago Tribune
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"Don Giovanni was opera that subverted normal preconceptions about a
night at the opera."
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Orlando
“In the end, the complexity of war clashes with the personal connections we all struggle to make, and without resolution, we are left with compelling drama.”
—Edge Chicago
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“We are bathed in beautiful music skillfully played by the COT orchestra under Leppard's leadership.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
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“Attractive and spirited. It was worth waiting for.”
-Chicago Tribune
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Orlando' takes the Harris Theater stage
-Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times
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A Flowering Tree
“This is an accessible work that should appeal to those familiar with Adams' music and also intrigue those who have yet to discover it.”
—Seen and Heard
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“Chicago is a world class musical city and with Chicago Opera Theater’s “A Flowering Tree” we have been treated to a sampling of the very best the town has to offer.”
—Opera Today
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“Adams and Sellars adapt a thousand-year-old tale to the opera, casting aside political relevance in favor of simplicity, color, and beauty. The results are, in a word, enchanting.”
-Chicago Maroon
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-Chicago Sun-Times
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John Adams conducts his brilliant 'Tree' at Harris Theatre
-Chicago Tribune
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'Flowering' magical: Chicago Opera premiere weaves beautiful magic
-Daily Herald
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A Flowering Tree At Chicago Opera Theater
-chicagocritic.com
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For John Adams, a tree grows in Chicago
-Chicago Sun-Times
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Lyrical 'Flowering Tree'
-Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times
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Composer goes from bombs, darkness to blooms, hope
-Chicago Tribune
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Don Giovanni
Brian Dickie talks about Don Giovanni and the 2008 Spring Season
-Talk!Theatre in Chicago
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Don Giovanni
-Windy City Media Group
Andrew Patner: The Dark Side
-WFMT
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COT infuses modern detail into classics
-Chicago Tribune
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Glover-Paulus team creates a superb 'Don Giovanni' for Chicago Opera Theater
-Chicago Sun-Times
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COT's 'Giovanni' is moody about Mozart
-Chicago Tribune
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Live Millennium Park Simulcast
Review: Outdoor Opera
-chicagoist
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Video Mozart warms cold Millennium Park crowd
-Chicago Tribune
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Straight-to-video opera at Millennium Park: CHICAGO OPERA THEATER Free 'Don Giovanni' simulcast airs May 9
-Chicago Sun-Times
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Season
Chicago Opera Theater spans the dawn of opera
-NewCity Chicago
Chicago Opera Theater makes growing its base a priority
-Chicago Tribune
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A contemporary 'Don Giovanni'
-Chicago Sun-Times
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Singing a new tune
-Time Out Chicago
Updated 'Don Giovanni'
-Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times
Chicago Opera Theater: Something Old, Something New
-Windy City Times
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Adams' 'Flowering' will bloom at Chicago Opera Theater.
-Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Opera Theater: No. 2 but trying harder for 2008
-Chicago Sun-Times
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Choose your own (operatic) adventure
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Fans can vote for opera
-Daily Herald
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Occasionally, arts hear voice of people
-Rocky Mountain News
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COT urges early and frequent voting for 2010 opera season
-Chicago Tribune
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| 2007 |
Béatrice et Bénédict
Tip of the Week
-New City Chicago
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"Kaiser and Eddy were marvelous together. Jan Latham-Koenig conducts a luminous reading of the score"
-Chicago Tribune
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"As the lovers, tenor Joseph Kaiser and mezzo Sandra Piques Eddy seem born to their lyrical parts and to their stage feuding-loving as well. Here (Brian Dickie) has found a cast that acts the theatrical portions as well and as believably as they handle their musical assignments."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung
"The alienation and psychological devastation on display at the Harris Theater don't provide the normal night at the opera
but it is unnerving, spellbinding and, it might as well be said, more fulfilling."
-Time Out Chicago
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"Chicago Opera Theaters double bill of one-act operas is a stunner, plain and simple."
-Windy City Times
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"(Both operas) are given lush musical treatment coupled with minimal, inky-dim visuals that never let you forget how powerful the dark side of love can be."
-Hyde Park Herald
"This season they offered the rare treat to see a pairing of two operas that are not often performed in Chicago, and, as an added bonus, they cast two of the opera world's superstars."
-OperaOnline.us
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"You owe it to yourself to catch this absorbing twin bill."
-Chicago Tribune
"These works grip and chill the soul with a brilliant and passionate force."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"They are must-see operas, and these stunning performances will leave an impact whether you have not yet seen them or have seen them a dozen times."
-ChicagoCritic.com
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The Return of Ulysses
Jane Glove talks about The Return of Ulysses on WBEZ's Hello Beautiful!
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"Once again, Chicago Opera Theater has assembled an almost iron-clad cast for a rarely seen opera requiring the services of, and budget, of a major company and succeeded."
-Time Out Chicago
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"Ulysses is positively Shakespearean in its fusion of heroic, tragic and broadly comic elements. Paulus has made the highly stylized conceits of early Italian Baroque opera feel as fresh to modern ears as the tangy, colorful continuity of sounds Glover, working from her own edition of the score, elicits from her fine period-instruments orchestra. (A) living breathing drama that speaks with a contemporary voice."
-Chicago Tribune
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"Highly recommended. The music, haunting, unfamiliar, yet immediate and completely natural, builds towards the inevitable yet thrilling reunion of man and wife. It carries us to a world where ancient people are tested dramatically in ways that are like a magnifying glass held over the smaller triumphs and failures of our own lives."
-Chicago Sun-Times
"COT's involving Ulysses once again shows that the company is a leader of creating innovative operatic theater."
-Daily Herald
"COT's production is visually, aurally, and dramatically stunning; it brings together a story from Antiquity, music from the Baroque, and contemporary direction to create a sense of timeless drama."
-ChicagoCritic.com
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"Opera is a theatrical form that is not very approachable for young people of today, but COT is making an effort to kindle interest within all ages."
-Northeastern Illinois University Independent
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| 2006 |
Nixon in China
Brian Dickie talks on WBEZ's 848 about Nixon in China (.mp3)
"Raise a toast to Chicago Opera Theater for bringing to the city's attention one of the great operas of recent years and doing it so brilliantly."
- Chicago Tribune
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"A rewarding night at the theater."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Stunning must not be missed."
-WFMT
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"Richard Nixon lives again - in the opera world"
-Reuters
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"Chicago Opera Theater's production is spectacular"
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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"A superb gift, a confirmation of the living arts"
- Windy City Times
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"A truly memorable marriage of music and drama that is not to be missed."
- New City
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Abduction from the Seraglio
"The work has had to wait 22 years to be mounted by a major Chicago company. It was worth the wait."
-Chicago Tribune
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"It has a sparkling overture, a justly famous blustery bass aria and some beguiling arias and ensembles, all deftly performed by the fine ensemble Chicago Opera Theater has gathered for its new production."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"I just know my first 'Opera!' was thoroughly enjoyable . . . that's certainly an inadequate term! It was just wonderful, and I never expected that."
-Audience Member & First Time Opera Attendee, Valerie Mockaitis
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The Padlock & Dido and Aeneas
"Susanne Mentzer is a marvelous Dido singing with an urgency and a warmth that energizes everyone around her. Don't miss Mentzer."
-Time Out Chicago
"Opera can, in the right hands, deliver a bracing shock of the new."
-Chicago Tribune
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"Dido and Aeneas has style to spare. (Maestro) Leppard brought an ironic, contemporary ear to Dibdin's tale (The Padlock)."
-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Chicago Opera Theater under Brian Dickie is carving out a niche by mounting unusual productions. The glory of the production is the brilliant way director Lillian Groag has woven the two disparate pieces together."
-Classical 96.3 Toronto
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"International opera star Susanne Mentzer was in every way a dazzling Dido (a) radiant presence and glowing voice (and) an actress of considerable skill."
-Pioneer Press
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"Dibdin's music is rollicking fun and showcases seven superb singers and Lillian Groag's masterful direction."
-Chicago Free Press
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"COT is opening its 2006 season Wednesday at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance at Millennium Park with several notable Chicago firsts..."
- Chicago Tribune
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"Chicago Opera Theater is not only a place to hear impeccably produced, gorgeously sung opera. Since the arrival of general director Brian Dickie in 1999, it is also one of the cutting-edge arts organizations in town."
- Chicago Sun-Times
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