Lyric Opera on Goldstar – subscriptions start at $100!

unnamedLyric Opera of Chicago hits all the right notes with its upcoming season of shows. There’s Don Giovanni, Capriccio, Il Trovatore, Porgy and Bess, Anna Bolena, Tosca, Tannhauser and The Passenger. Your subscription package features tickets for four specific shows — plus a fifth ticket for any show of your choice throughout the entire eight-show season. Don Giovanni is Mozart’s story of a legendary seducer whose selfish arrogance becomes ever more reckless and fatal. In Strauss’ Capriccio, the beautiful countess must choose between the amorous poet or the ardent musician. Verdi’s Il Trovatore is chock-full of love triangles, revenge plots, murder and children switched at birth, and as much drama as any soap opera. Jazz, blues and spirituals infuse George and Ira Gershwin’s classic, Porgy and Bess. New production Anna Bolena is Donizetti’s tour-de-force dramatization of the story of Anne Boleyn, the most famous of King Henry VIII’s many wives. Puccini’s Tosca is filled with political intrigue and includes one of the most beautiful arias in the operatic repertoire, “E lucevan le stelle,” sung by Tosca’s doomed lover as he awaits execution. Wagner’s erotic and sensual Tannhäuser is both racy and lushly beautiful. And finally, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s The Passenger takes you aboard an ocean liner. It’s not all smooth sailing, though, as the action vacillates between the pristine white deck above to the dark horrors of the death camp below.

Lyric Opera on Goldstar – cheap culcha!

otello-091613Tickets start at $17 for October performance dates of Verdi’s Othello at Lyric Opera on Goldstar!  Jealousy, betrayal and murder… From the opening tempest scene to the spine-tingling finish, Giuseppe Verdi’s thrilling adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy crackles with theatrical electricity. When the insidious Iago cleverly exploits Otello’s obsessive jealousy, the Moor’s innocent wife Desdemona is blindsided in the explosive dramatic friction.  A work of overwhelming power and beauty, this musical portrait of Otello’s descent into a tortured heart of darkness is explicit in every chilling detail. Lyric Opera of Chicago’s three-hour production features the world’s most sought-after performer of the title role, South African tenor Johan Botha, alongside an acclaimed cast of stars. If you want to make a special night of it, the opening night performance will be a black tie gala event with a champagne reception. Sung in Italian, with projected English text.