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The Civic Opera House, also called Lyric Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The Civic's main performance space, named for Ardis Krainik, seats 3,563, making it the second-largest opera auditorium in North America, after the Metropolitan Opera House. Built for the Chicago Civic Opera, it has been home to ...
Detail of a sculpture by Henry Hering. The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower (plus two 22-story wings) located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The building opened November 4, 1929, and has an Art Deco interior. It contains a 3,563-seat opera house, the Civic Opera House, which is the second-largest opera auditorium in North ...
Lyric Opera of Chicago is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas 's American debut in Norma. Fox re-organized the company in 1956 under its present name.
French Opera House, New Orleans, Louisiana. Harrison Opera House(Virginia Opera), Norfolk, Virginia. Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York[39][40] Howell Opera House, Howell, Michigan. Jefferson Performing Arts Center(Jefferson Performing Arts Society), Metairie, Louisiana.
Leontyne Price. Mary Violet Leontyne Price (/ liˈɒntiːn, ˈliːəntiːn / lee-ON-teen, LEE-ən-teen; born February 10, 1927) is an American spinto soprano who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. [ 1 ] From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera. She regularly appeared at the world's ...
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The Color Purple (musical) The Color Purple. (musical) The Color Purple is a musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the 1982 novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation. The musical follows the journey of Celie, an African American woman in the American South from the ...
Deborah Joy Voigt [1] was born into a religious Southern Baptist family in 1960 and raised in Wheeling, Illinois, just outside Chicago. [2][3] At age five, she joined the choir at a Baptist church [3] and began learning the piano. Her mother sang and played piano at church while her two younger brothers sang in rock music bands. [4]