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Composer Kurt Weill was only 50 years old when he died in 1950, yet he'd had two lives. As Ravinia Festival music director James Conlon observed Saturday during the all-Weill program starring Patti LuPone and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,...

In this article: Patti LuPone, Happy End, James Conlon, Berlin, Paris, Ravinia Festival, September Song, Mack the Knife, and Bertolt Brecht

...the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra among others. Ramsay has also performed at several notable music festivals including the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Sugar Creek Festival, and the Ravinia Festival.

In this article: Scott Ramsay, Robin Follman, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Arizona Opera

Though he has been at L.A. Opera since 2006, Conlon also has held the same post at the Cincinnati May Festival, where he celebrates his 30th anniversary this year, and at the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In this article: James Conlon, Kurt Weill, Die Walkure, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Alexander Zemlinsky, Patti LuPone, Ravinia Festival, The Seven Deadly Sins, and Rigoletto

...Symphony Orchestra, and he served in this post until 1963. At the same time, he was the first artistic director of the Ravinia Festival and served there from 1959 to 1963. He left the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1964. From 1964 to...

In this article: Walter Hendl, New York Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erie, Pennsylvania, Ravinia Festival, Erie Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sarah Lawrence College

...the rival Japan Philharmonic Orchestra instead. From 1964 to 1971, Seiji Ozawa served as the first music director of the Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the Toronto Symphony...

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Sondheim turns 80 at Ravinia Next summer, the Stephen Sondheim-loving Ravinia Festival plans to stage a major gala in honor of the great American composer and writer's 80th birthday, featuring distinguished Sondheim interpreters Patti LuPone,...

In this article: Stephen Sondheim, Ravinia Festival, Paul Gemignani, Lonny Price, Michael Cerveris, George Hearn, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, and Broadway

...and Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Symphony Center in Chicago, Pick-Staiger Auditorium at Northwestern University, the Ravinia Festival and Chicago's Hot House. In 2007, Midwest Young Artists became the first youth orchestra...

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...company. In a concert performance of "Butterfly" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2007 Ravinia Festival, she and Lyric's Pinkerton, Frank Lopardo, gave a hint of the ardor they would bring to Lyric. Hearing them in a...

In this article: Butterfly, Madama Butterfly, Patricia Racette, Ravinia Festival, and Civic Opera House

...Eschenbach and Le Freyshutz, a Berlioz adaptation of the Weber opera conducted by Christoph Eschenbach in its North American Premiere (Ravinia Festival). He spent two and a half years teaching Shakespeare at The Theatre School at DePaul...

In this article: Chi Lites, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet, Jackie Wilson, and Goodman Theatre