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Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced its 2024-25 season, its 70th, composed of four “classic operas” and two contemporary works not previously seen in Chicago, along with various special ...
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Crosby's Opera House (1865–1871) was an opera house in Chicago, Illinois, founded by Uranus H. Crosby, destroyed by fire; Grand Opera House (1872–1958), built at 546 N. Clark Street (119 N. Clark Street today) by John Austin Hamlin
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, June–August: Location(s) Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E. Randolph Street Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, United States (July 16, 2004–present) Petrillo Music Shell 235 S. Columbus Drive Grant Park, Chicago, IL, United States (1978–2004) Petrillo Music Shell Grant Park, Chicago, IL, United States (1935–1977 ...
Built for the Chicago Civic Opera, it has been home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1954 and the Joffrey Ballet since 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of a complex with a 45-story office tower and two 22-story wings, known as the Civic Opera Building that opened November 4, 1929 and features Art Deco details.
The Auditorium Theatre is a music and performance venue located in the Auditorium Building at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois.Inspired by the Richardsonian Romanesque Style of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the building was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889.
The first opera to be performed in Chicago was Bellini's La sonnambula, presented by a traveling opera company on 29 July 1850. [1] Chicago's first opera house opened in 1865 but was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871. The second opera house, the Chicago Auditorium, opened in 1889. [2] In 1929, the current Civic Opera House on 20 ...
Chicago Opera Theater Records at the Newberry Library; Four interviews with Alan Stone, February 13, 1979, December 20, 1979, February 3, 1983, and April 5, 1991; Sources. Marsh, Robert C. "Author's Preface" and "The Fox Years", in Pellegrini, Norman (ed.), 150 Years of Opera in Chicago, DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press ...