Chicago Opera Theater

...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

...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

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

...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

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

...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

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

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

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

...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