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Riccardo Muti has withdrawn from his two weeks of February subscription […]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