The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an opera company that was founded as the Chicago Opera Studio in 1974 by Alan Stone[1] to give vocal students performance experience, although it has grown into a professional opera company. Alan Stone may refer to Alan A Stone, scholar of law and psychology at Harvard and film critic Alan Stone (wrestler [2] The stated mission of the COT is to provide first class productions of operatic repertoire that include the greatest works of the 17th through 20th centuries,[3] and in the past it has had an emphasis on American composers and performers who sing in English. [4] Currently, the COT extends the Chicago opera season by scheduling its performances after the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season ends in spring. Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading Opera companies in the United States. [5]
The company's home is the 1,525-seat Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago's Millennium Park, built in 2003 as a mostly underground-located state-of-the-art downtown performance facility. Joan W and Irving B Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Harris & Harris Theater or most commonly Harris Theater is a 1525-seat theater for the Performing Millennium Park is a public Park located in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago within, United States. [6] Prior to the 2004 season, the COT was most recently at the Athenaeum Theatre on the city’s north side. [7]
Brian Dickie is the current General Director of the COT, a position he has held since September 1999. [8] Alexander Platt is the COT's resident conductor and music advisor. His work with COT has included leading the Chicago premiere of Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice, and directing the Maurice Sendak/Tony Kushner version of Hans Krása's Brundibar and an adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. Edward Benjamin Britten Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 was an English Composer, conductor, Death in Venice is an Opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, his last Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn New York) is an American Writer and Illustrator of Children's literature Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America, for which Brundibár is a children's Opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, originally performed Hans Krása ( November 30 1899 – October 17 1944) was a Bohemian Composer who perished in the Holocaust. Brundibár is a children's Opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, originally performed Iolanta (sometimes Iolanthe) ( Иоланта) is a lyric Opera, Opus 69 in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Additionally, in 2006, he led the Chicago premiere of John Adams' Nixon in China,[9] and is scheduled in May 2007 to conduct the dual Chicago premieres of Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung (in English, Expectation). John Coolidge Adams (born February 15 1947 is an American Composer with strong roots in minimalism. Nixon in China (1985-87 is an Opera with music by the American composer John Adams and a Libretto by Alice Goodman, about the Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25 1881&ndashSeptember 26 1945 was a Hungarian Composer and Pianist, considered to be one of the greatest Duke Bluebeard's Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára literally The Castle of the Blue-Bearded Prince) is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Arnold Schoenberg ( pronounced ˈʃøːnbɛrk (13 September 1874 &ndash 13 July 1951 was an Austrian and later American Composer, associated with Erwartung (translation Expectation) is a one-act Opera, with music by Arnold Schoenberg, composed in 1909 to a libretto by Marie Pappenheim
COT's 2008 Season has been announced: Mozart's "Don Giovanni" April 30, May 3,6,9,11 2008 John Adams' "A Flowering Tree" May 14,17,20,23,25 2008 Handel's "Orlando" May 28,31, June 3,6,8 2008
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- ^ Marsh, Robert C. [2006-07-10]. "The Fox Years", in Pellegrini, Norman (ed. ): 150 Years of Opera in Chicago. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 167. DeKalb is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The population was 39018 at the 2000 census. Northern Illinois University (NIU is a Public university located in DeKalb Illinois. ISBN 0-87580-353-9. “In April 1974 Alan Stone, who had learned from missteps with the offerings of this Pilot Knob company the previous year, was back on the operatic scene, this time in the five-hundred-seat auditorium of Jones Commercial High School (which remained his company's mainstage location through 1976) with a workshop group he called Chicago Opera Studio and a production of Così fan tutte that had excellent young singers and genuine charm. Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti ( Thus Do They All or The School For Lovers) K Six performances cost $8,000 to produce. ”
- ^ Marsh, Robert C. [2006-07-10]. "Author's Preface", in Pellegrini, Norman (ed. ): 150 Years of Opera in Chicago. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, xii. DeKalb is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The population was 39018 at the 2000 census. Northern Illinois University (NIU is a Public university located in DeKalb Illinois. ISBN 0-87580-353-9. “It should be said that Chicago has always had a number of smaller opera groups, some ethnically oriented, some essentially opera workshops to give vocal students performance experience. The Chicago Opera Theater began in 1974 as an organization of this type but was transformed into an important professional production group. ”
- ^ Chicago Opera Theater - History (About Us page). Chicago Opera Theater. Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ Blackwell, Elizabeth Canning (2005-12-05). Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Chicago Opera Theater - Bar/Club Review - Chicago - Frommers.com. Frommer's Chicago 2006. Wiley Publishing. Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ Chicago Nightlife & the Arts - Fodor's Online Travel Guide. Fodor's Travel, a division of Random House. Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ Harris Theatre History. Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago - metromix.com. Metromix. com. Tribune Interactive. Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ Bloggers - Chicago Classical Music. Backstage (Chicago Classical Music blog). Arts & Business Council of Chicago. Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ Delacoma, Wynne. "Nixon before the fall", Chicago Sun-Times, Digital Chicago, 2006-05-14. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Retrieved on 2006-09-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
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