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Singing soars, but staging is too over-the-top in Lyric Opera’s ‘Jenufa’

While there is much to praise about the performances, especially those of the two leading women, the exaggerated, expressionist staging is perplexing at best and sometimes even silly.

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Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

It’s director’s Christopher Alden’s production design that makes a grand impression. Its vertigo-inspiring sets and creepy costumes by Allen Moyer, coupled with lighting by Anne Militello, literally rock the senses as if in a haunting dream.

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Anthony Freud, Lyric Opera president and CEO, to retire next year

Anthony Freud, Lyric Opera president and CEO, to retire next year

‘Working with Lyric has, for me, been the honor and thrill of a lifetime,’ the U.K. native says.

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Grand ‘West Side Story’ revival proves there’s a place for musical theater at the opera house

Propulsive Lyric Opera staging of the masterpiece pays careful attention to shaping the characters.

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Interwoven short operas in ‘Proximity’ inform and confound but ultimately astound at Lyric Opera

Lyric deserves enormous credit for embracing this undertaking and going all in both in terms of scale and daring. It is, by any measure, a major event.

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Pro-Ukraine demonstrators denounce Joffrey Ballet’s production of ‘Anna Karenina’

The Joffrey has stood firm in its decision to stage Yuri Possokhov’s “Anna Karenina,” based on the novel by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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With West Side mural, Barrett Keithley aims to reflect positive vibe from Black barber shops

“Whenever I walked in to a barber shop, there was an immediate sense of respect and positivity,” says the artist, who did the mural to promote a Lyric Opera production with a barber shop theme.

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Chicago’s South Side is heart — and soul — of Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’

Chicago’s South Side is heart — and soul — of Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’

The opera is among the first with an entirely Black and BIPOC cast and creative team, and it is the first to incorporate an onstage DJ as part of its 18-piece orchestration.

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Rossini’s comic ‘Le Comte Ory’ a triumph at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Rossini’s comic ‘Le Comte Ory’ a triumph at Lyric Opera of Chicago

The next to last of Rossini’s 39 operas, the piece has long been overshadowed by the composer’s better-known masterpieces like “The Barber of Seville.”

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Terence Blanchard’s ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ a complex, emotionally charged life’s journey

Terence Blanchard’s ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ a complex, emotionally charged life’s journey

A major, compelling work by one of the most important new composing voices in opera is playing out at Lyric Opera.

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