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Primary school teacher Fiona Beal (left), 48, will stand trial accused of killing her partner Nicholas Billingham (right) after his body was found buried in their garden in Northampton.
Thursday evening’s bravura production was a major event in Muti’s penultimate season as the CSO’s music director. And it was a grand homage to both the composer whose work he has long cherished, and the orchestra he has embraced and nurtured since becoming its music director in 2010.
“Un Ballo in Maschera” is the last in a series of Verdi operas led in concert by the Chicago Symphony’s music director, who departs after next season.
With the pandemic still bedeviling live performance these days understudies have become heroic figures. Now, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has its very own “last minute hero” story, too.
The offender asked who he thought was a 12-year-old girl if she wanted to be his girlfriend and sent naked pictures, the court heard.