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Conductor: Raymond Leppard
Director: Justin Way

Production Designers: Andrew Hays & Kimm Kovac
Lighting Designer: Aaron Black

Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Approximate running time: 2 hours 42 minutes with one intermission

May 28, 31, June 3, 6, 8, 2008
All performances at 7:30pm, except Sundays at 3pm.

THE ROMANTIC TABLES ARE TURNED IN THIS PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER.

WHILE OPERA HAS ITS SHARE OF CRAZED WOMEN, HANDEL’S ORLANDO DEPICTS A GREAT SOLDIER’S EMOTIONAL UNRAVELING WHEN HE DISCOVERS HIS TRUE LOVE’S COMMITMENT TO ANOTHER MAN.

THIS UNIQUE TAKE ON ORLANDO WILL PLACE THE ACTION IN A 1940'S "FILM NOIR" SETTING THAT INCLUDES THE USUAL FEMME FATALES, MYSTERIOUS INVESTIGATORS, AND MORALLY QUESTIONABLE HEROES.

All performances held at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

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Conductor
Raymond Leppard
Director
Justin Way

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In honor of the children and families
of Christel House International
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