July 16--"Madame Pompadour": If you enjoyed Chicago Folks Operetta's previous productions of tuneful Viennese stage confections by Leo Fall, you're bound to like its take on "Madame Pompadour" (1922), a show considered to be the Austrian composer's masterpiece. The operetta launches the troupe's 10th anniversary season, sporting a new English translation by Gerald Frantzen and Hersh Glagov, conducting by Anthony Barrese and stage direction by Amy Hutchison. Opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday and runs through Aug. 2, Vittum Theater, 1012 N. Noble St.; $40, $35 for seniors; 773-342-4141, chicagofolksoperetta.org
Chicago Duo Piano Festival: The 27th annual event, presented by the Music Institute of Chicago, concludes with a recital by the piano duo of Chie Tsuyuki and Michael Rosenboom, performing their arrangement of Liszt's "Totentanz." The artists also will lead a free master class at 10 a.m. Saturday. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston; $30, $20 for seniors; 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com/event/1476326
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Soloists Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano, and Dubravka Tomsic, piano, join conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto for a concert that includes Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto and Falla's complete "The Three-Cornered Hat"; 8 p.m. Friday. Conductor James Conlon leads the opening concert of his final Ravinia residency as the CSO's summer landlord, with pianist Garrick Ohlsson as soloist; his program holds Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 and Mahler's First Symphony; 8 p.m. Wednesday. Conlon also will preside over an all-Russian program -- selections from Mussorgsky's "Khovanschina," Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 (Lise de la Salle, soloist) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5; 8 p.m. Thursday. Ravinia Festival, Green Bay and Lake Cook roads, Highland Park; $25-$50, $10 lawn; 847-266-5100, ravinia.org
Emerson String Quartet: The peerless American ensemble performs Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16, Dvorak's "American" Quartet and Lowell Liebermann's recent String Quartet No. 5. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Martin Theatre, Ravinia, Green Bay and Lake Cook roads, Highland Park; $40-$60, $10 lawn; 847-266-5100, ravinia.org
Grant Park Chorus: Director Christopher Bell leads his splendid choristers in their annual free Chicago community concerts, given as part of the city's "Night Out in the Parks" program. 7 p.m. Tuesday, South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Drive; and 7 p.m. Thursday, Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd.; 312-742-7638, gpmf.org
Grant Park Music Festival: Thierry Fischer conducts the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, and vocal soloists, in Brahms' transcendent "German Requiem," which shares the program with Schoenberg's "Transfigured Night"; 6:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Singers from Lyric Opera's Ryan Opera Center perform a potpourri of operatic selections, including excerpts from resident composer Douglas Cuomo's recent opera "Doubt," under Ward Stare's baton; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street; free, $25 for reserved seating; 312-742-7638, gpmf.org
Ravinia's Steans Music Institute: Artists from this year's program for piano and strings perform free concerts; 2 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Thursday. String players present Dvorak's "American" Quartet, part of the $10 BGH Classics series; 6 p.m. Monday. Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, Green Bay and Lake Cook roads, Highland Park; 847-266-5100, ravinia.org
Rush Hour Concerts: The summer-long series of free weekly classical music performances and preconcert conversations continues with CSO cellist Brant Taylor and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang playing Richard Strauss' Cello Sonata. 5 p.m. Tuesday, St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron St.; rushhour.org
J. Austin Wulliman: The gifted, adventuresome Chicago violinist presents a recital of recent works by Chicago composers with whom he has collaborated, including Augusta Read Thomas, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Lee Hyla and Marcos Balter. 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave.; $10, $5 for seniors; constellation-chicago.com
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