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'Brundibar' children's opera a pet project of Maurice SendakSearch post-gazette.com: 'Brundibar' children's opera a pet project of Maurice Sendak Chicago Opera Theater staged "Brundibar" using costumes and a set by Maurice Sendak. Considering the buzz for Maurice Sendak these days, it might be... In this article: Maurice Sendak, Brundibar, Chicago Opera Theater, Hans Krasa, Where the Wild Things Are, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and School Library Journal |
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Wikipedia | October 18, 2009
Diane Paulus
...with Watermelons, created in association with Project 400, the theater company she co-founded with her husband Randy Weiner. At Chicago Opera Theater: Le Nozze Di Figaro, Turn Of The Screw, Cosi Fan Tutte, and all three Monteverdi opera,...
In this article: Harvard University, Hair, Broadway, Midsummer Night's Dream, New York City, and Diedre Murray
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Wikipedia | October 05, 2009
Michael Maniaci
...to Glimmerglass Opera as Medoro in Handel's Orlando ''. In the 2003-2004 season, Maniaci sang Nerone in ''L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Chicago Opera Theater (which marked the opening of the company's new theatre), and with Cleveland Opera.
In this article: Michael Maniaci, Glimmerglass Opera, Nerone, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Opera North, Opera Atelier, Wolf Trap Opera, and Boston Baroque
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Wikipedia | June 18, 2009
Chicago Opera Theater
The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an opera company that was founded as the Chicago Opera Studio in 1974 by Alan Stone to give vocal students performance experience, although it has grown into a professional opera company. The stated...
In this article: Chicago, Paul Bunyan, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Owen Wingrave
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Wikipedia | June 11, 2009
Rebecca Caine
...of the show's 21st anniversary making it the longest running musical in the world. In May 2009, she will make her Chicago debut in the Chicago Opera Theater's production of Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave. In May 2007, Ms. Caine released...
In this article: Rebecca Caine, London, Canadian Opera Company, Toronto, Les Miserables, Opera Holland Park, BBC Radio 2, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Cosette
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topix | May 21, 2009
Owen Wingrave at Chicago Opera Theater
For the two or three Benjamin Britten fans out there, Chicago Opera Theater's Owen Wingrave is an absolute must see; for the rest of us it's right up there too, thanks to a superb production, directed by Ken Cazan. I assure you there are...
In this article: Owen Wingrave and Benjamin Britten
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Chicago Sun-Times | May 19, 2009
COT's 'Owen Wingrave' takes fine opera and makes it better
...unfamiliar can be restorative. It feeds our optimism, reminding us that fresh ideas are in constant circulation, waiting to be discovered. Chicago Opera Theater's taut, fast-paced production of Benjamin Britten's "Owen Wingrave,''which opened...
In this article: Owen Wingrave, Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice, Steuart Bedford, Rebecca Caine, Myfanwy Piper, and Henry James
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Chicago Sun-Times | May 18, 2009
Singers bring life to stock roles in 'Owen Wingrave'
Chicago Opera Theater singers bring life to stock roles in 'Owen Wingrave' Sometimes all we want from the opera house or concert hall is the comfort of the familiar. Especially when times are turbulent, who doesn't want to crawl into the...
In this article: Owen Wingrave, Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice, Steuart Bedford, Rebecca Caine, Marriage of Figaro, and Myfanwy Piper
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Chicago Sun-Times | May 02, 2008
Glover-Paulus team creates a superb 'Don Giovanni' for Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater has scored another triumph with its new production of "Don Giovanni," the last of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy to be taken up by the company's superb partnership of conductor Jane Glover and director Diane Paulus.
In this article: Don Giovanni, Jane Glover, Da Ponte, and Chicago
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Chicago Sun-Times | April 27, 2008
A contemporary 'Don Giovanni'
OPERA | Chicago Opera Theater opens its new season with a fresh look at a rake's progress For an art form once accused of elitism, the world of opera has many mansions. And one of the most democratic, youthful and thrilling of these is...
In this article: Don Giovanni, Chicago, John Adams, and Millennium Park
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Chicago Sun-Times | October 02, 2007
Chicago Opera Theater springs forward :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Classical
...American premieres of his operatic or choral works. Instead, he granted the premiere to what some might consider a surprising choice: Chicago Opera Theater. What swayed Adams was COT's acclaimed production of his opera "Nixon in China" last...
In this article: Jane Glover, John Adams, Orfeo, Ulysses, and A Flowering Tree
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The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an opera company that was founded as the Chicago Opera Studio in 1974 by Alan Stone to give vocal students performance experience, although it has grown into a professional opera company. The stated mission of the COT is to provide first class productions of operatic repertoire that include the greatest works of the 17th through 20th centuries, and in the past it has had an emphasis on American composers and performers who sing in English. Currently, the COT extends the Chicago opera season by scheduling its performances after the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season ends in spring.
The company's home is the 1,525-seat Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago's Millennium Park, built in 2003 as a mostly underground-located state-of-the-art downtown performance facility. Prior to the 2004 season, the COT was most recently at the Athenaeum Theatre on the city’s north side.
Brian Dickie is the current General Director of the COT, a position he has held since September 1999. Alexander Platt is the COT's resident conductor and music advisor. His work with COT has included leading the Chicago premiere of Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice, and directing the Maurice Sendak/Tony Kushner version of Hans Krása's Brundibar and an adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. Additionally, in 2006, he led the Chicago premiere of John Adams' Nixon in China, and in May 2007 conducted the dual Chicago premieres of Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung (in English, Expectation).
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