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2 months ago |
chicagoreader.com | Deanna Isaacs
The Listeners is the fourth new opera by the hot composer/librettist team of Missy Mazzoli (a former CSO composer-in-residence) and Royce Vavrek. Cocommissioned by Lyric Opera, and now onstage there for a five-performance run, it’s a tense and consistently engaging work, with a richly dramatic orchestral score and an excellent cast. Topical and ironic, it’s a potent catalyst for post-opera ruminations or conversations, definitely worth seeing.
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2 months ago |
chicagoreader.com | Deanna Isaacs
Some things, mercifully, do not change. Giacomo Puccini’s soaring, straight-to-the-heart score for his 1896 opera La Bohème is one of them. Is the world—or your world—upside down? Head for the opera house. The libretto in this perennial favorite is dated at best, swerving between corny, chauvinistic attempts at humor and heavy-handed melodrama.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
chicagoreader.com | Deanna Isaacs
I came straight home from the opening of Woman Made Gallery’s “$acred Motherhood” exhibition last Saturday and signed up for Hulu so I could watch Nightbitch, the movie about an artist so stifled by her life as a stay-at-home mom to a toddler she periodically transforms into a dog. The artist, surprised to find that she’s breaking out in a double row of nipples and a tail, joins a pack of neighborhood strays to run the streets of her suburban neighborhood.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
chicagoreader.com | Deanna Isaacs
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Jan 7, 2025 |
chicagoreader.com | Deanna Isaacs
News of former president Jimmy Carter’s death on December 29 had me rummaging through a drawer I hadn’t opened in 40 years, searching in vain for notes from the day I met him. I didn’t find them, but this is what I remember: It was late summer or early fall, 1981.
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