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Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

It’s director’s Christopher Alden’s production design that makes a grand impression. Its vertigo-inspiring sets and creepy costumes by Allen Moyer, coupled with lighting by Anne Militello, literally rock the senses as if in a haunting dream.

Chicago Sun-Times

Riccardo Muti closes out era as CSO music director with triumphant ‘Missa Solemnis’

Muti culminated his official tenure as music director of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra in superb fashion. The maestro has been named the orchestra’s music director emeritus for life.

Chicago Sun-Times

From tuba concerto to ‘Mission: Impossible’ — CSO and Riccardo Muti achieve splendidly lighthearted program

A lively, engrossing program offered multiple insights into the maestro’s conducting style and what he has accomplished in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Riccardo Muti: ‘I leave the position of music director knowing that I have done my best’

The world-renowned conductor, who is stepping down from his post with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra later this month, plans to return to the podium at Symphony Center, but less frequently and without the demands of being the orchestra’s music director.

Chicago Sun-Times

Grand ‘West Side Story’ revival proves there’s a place for musical theater at the opera house

Propulsive Lyric Opera staging of the masterpiece pays careful attention to shaping the characters.

Chicago Sun-Times

CSO, Muti, Rachmaninoff add up to a glorious evening at the symphony

Maestro Riccardo Muti chose to perform the hourlong Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27, in full, and he made sure the energy never flagged and the orchestra’s focus never wavered.

Chicago Sun-Times

Interwoven short operas in ‘Proximity’ inform and confound but ultimately astound at Lyric Opera

Lyric deserves enormous credit for embracing this undertaking and going all in both in terms of scale and daring. It is, by any measure, a major event.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Characters don’t always connect in Lyric’s straightforward and suitably grand ‘Carmen’ revival

Ryan Opera Center grad J’Nai Bridges brings fiery stage presence and a stunning voice to her signature role, but her performance does not completely click.

Chicago Sun-Times

Riccardo Muti, CSO triumph with Tchaikovsky’s epic ‘Manfred’ Symphony

With Muti’s departure as music director at the end of June coming ever closer, each of his appearances with the orchestra seems to carry added meaning and emotion, and it certainly felt that way Thursday.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘I get handed joints all the time’: why everyone wants to party with topless comic Bert Kreischer

He’s the wild frat boy turned middle-aged dad who loves guns, is friends with Joe Rogan and once helped rob a Russian train. Is Britain ready for the man who was America’s official No 1 hellraiser?

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Holiday things to do in Chicago: Myriad spins on ‘The Nutcracker’ arriving on area stages

From art deco to hip-hop to an immersive experience, “The Nutcracker” remains a holiday dance favorite.

Chicago Sun-Times

Riccardo Muti, CSO, Bronfman combine for marvelous program of late 19th-century works

Thursday night’s concert also signaled the beginning of Riccardo Muti’s 13th and final season as music director.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Fiddler on the Roof’: Lyric Opera’s rethinking of classic musical emphasizes its historical reality as well as its wit

The production, first seen at Germany’s Komische Oper Berlin, scrapes away the kitschy patina to reveal its musical treasures and emotional core.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lina Gonzalez-Granados returns to CSO podium with top-notch Beethoven program

For the second time this spring, Gonzalez-Granados took the CSO podium as a last-minute replacement for Riccardo Muti, the orchestra’s music director sidelined by a positive COVID-19 test.

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Riccardo Muti returns to lead CSO in stellar performance of Montgomery commission, Beethoven No. 6

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday night presented the first of three commissioned works by Jessie Montgomery, who began her three-year tenure as composer-in-residence in July.

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