When Lyric Opera of Chicago premiered the August Everding-Jörg Zimmermann production of Mozart’sThe Magic Flutein 1986–starring Judith Blegen and Francisco Araiza–the company likely had little idea of how
Byline: Bill GowenSaturday marks the beginning of the end of the 47th season of Lyric Opera of Chicago when, at 7:30 p.m., the curtain goes up on Mozart's "The Magic Flute."This production, one of the best-loved in Lyric's active repertoire, was last seen in the 1996-97 seaso...
Ailyn Perez and Nathan Gunn in “The Magic Flute,” presented Thursday night at Ravinia. Photo: Russell Jenkins/Ravinia Festival The Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is looking back to its roots this weekend. The North Shore suburban arts festival was known as Ra...
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Byline: Bill Gowen Daily Herald Classical Music Critic "The Magic Flute" - Where: Ardis...Gowen, Bill