Lyric Opera of Chicago
The season, which can open with a Broadway-tinged live performance on 10 October, options six productions, the primary of which, Cherubini‘s Medea, reunites the Metropolitan Opera’s 2022 opening evening workforce of Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, and David McVicar.
Enrique Mazzola, who will conduct half of those productions, appears to point out a special conception of the Music Director function than a few of his colleagues elsewhere within the business. Mazzola’s different two productions embody a Cavalleria Rusticana (with Yulia Matochkina and SeokJong Baek) & Pagliacci (with Gabriella Reyes and Russell Thomas) in addition to a Così fan tutte (with Jacquelyn Stucker, Cecilia Molinari, Anthony León, and Ian Rucker). And he’ll conduct Orff‘s Carmina Burana within the fall.
Elena Stikhina will cozy as much as Nicholas Brownlee as Salome and Jochanaan, respectively, when David McVicar‘s 2008 manufacturing of Strauss’s opens in January carried out by Tomás Netopil. The manufacturing raises questions each of what kinds of function lie forward for the Met’s present Captain Ahab Brandon Jovanonovich, who will sing Herod, and whether or not or not the prim midwesterners may even import the manufacturing’s starkers beefcake executioner. Tanja Ariane Baumgartner and Ryan Capozzo full the solid as Herodias and Narraboth.
Matthew Ozawa‘s manufacturing of Madama Butterfly, carried out by Domingo Hindoyan and that includes an all-female and all-Japanese design workforce, will function Karah Son, who lately sang the function in Los Angeles, in addition to Evan LeRoy Johnson, Nozomi Kato, and Zachary Nelson. And barely a month the opera opens on the Met, Daniela Mack will sing in El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego reverse Alfredo Daza, rising countertenor star Key’mon W. Murrah, and Ana María Martínez (who additionally seems in Così).
There are additionally some starker diversions from the usual fare: November brings a weeklong retrospective of The Smashing Pumpkins‘ album A Evening of Mellon Collie and Infinite Unhappiness billed as an “immersively authentic sonic and visible expertise that blurs the boundaries of opera, rock, and efficiency artwork” starring frontman Billy Corgan.
A two-performance run of a brand new opera that includes phrases and music by Chicago poet laureate avery r. younger, sounds considerably extra considerate; the Afro-surrealist opera will deal with a Chicago household’s story throughout the Nice Migration and casting is but to be introduced. And for people who wish to sweat to the oldies, Renée Fleming does her anthropocene factor in February.
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