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This month the Metropolitan Opera announced that Opera News, a publication founded 87 years ago, will publish its final issue in November and thereafter be folded into the British-based magazine
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J’Nai Bridges and Charles Castronovo are the central lovers, telling a rich and densely layered story.
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Ménages à trois are rare sights at the Lyric, but one makes an appearance in this rather ribald comic opera from Gioachino Rossini.
The next to last of Rossini’s 39 operas, the piece has long been overshadowed by the composer’s better-known masterpieces like “The Barber of Seville.”
On Sunday evening, in the wake of a thunderous few days of the Chicago Air and Water Show, Enrique Mazzola, Lyric Opera’s Music Director (along with Donald Lee III, the inaugural Ryan Opera Center conductor/pianist), led the Lyric Opera Orchestra and singers from the Ryan Opera Center’s esteemed training center on the same stage of the Pritzker Pavillion.