Archive for February, 2016

Racette shines in COT’s mixed double bill

Though it likely wasn’t planned that way, Chicago Opera Theater’s double […]

Feb 15, 2016
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Strings to the fore with a Mozart centerpiece from Rozhdestvensky, CSO

Riccardo Muti was to have conducted the current two weeks of […]

Feb 12, 2016
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Critic’s Choice

After a season-opening stumble last fall with a numbing Marriage of […]

Feb 11, 2016
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Honeck to conduct CSO next week

If any good is coming out of Riccardo Muti’s canceling his […]

Feb 10, 2016
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Lyric Opera voices soar gloriously in Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier”

In the 105 years since the instant success of Der Rosenkavalier […]

Feb 09, 2016
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Chicago Ensemble unearths two piano quintets worthy of rediscovery

One can always count on the Chicago Ensemble to dig up […]

Feb 08, 2016
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From first to last, Rozhdestvensky, CSO deliver memorable Shostakovich

At his third curtain call after the rousing Chicago Symphony Orchestra […]

Feb 07, 2016
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Rozhdestvensky to replace ailing Muti; Tiknis to leave Harris Theater

The Russians are coming–to the rescue. Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who is conducting […]

Feb 06, 2016
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Critic’s Choice

From his Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut in 1974, Gennady Rozhdestvensky was […]

Feb 03, 2016
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Muti withdraws from CSO concerts following hip surgery

Riccardo Muti has withdrawn from his two weeks of February subscription […]

Feb 02, 2016
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