Lyric Opera of Chicago averted a walkout on the gala opening night of its new season (see http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/culture-club/culture-club/2009/09/lyric-opera-of-chicago-opening-night-threatened/), but all is definitely not well on Wacker Drive.
Members of the orchestra handed out leaflets to patrons as they arrived at the…
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2009-2010 season is scheduled to open tonight with Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca (in a less controversial production than the new one from the Met). At this writing, however, the performance is threatened: Contract negotiations with the orchestra…
Grand opera needs good food.
Finding a place to eat before the opera tends to be an issue: finding a place that’s close enough to park and dine - and where the staff understands the importance of getting out in time…
Norman Pellegrini, program director at Chicago’s iconic WFMT (98.7 FM) for 45 years, died early today after a brief illness. He was 79.
Norm Pellegrini, 1929-2009
Mr. Pellegrini started at WFMT at the station’s beginnings in 1951, and became program director two…
It should come as absolutely no news to anyone who follows opera that New York City Opera is on the ropes and seeking to reopen its labor contracts. Its next season has been cut back to just five operas, down…
CHICAGO - The management at Lyric Opera of Chicago has been trying to put on George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” for at least the last quarter century. It’s a hard one to pull off, because the Gershwin estate requires an…
