'Four operas and an oratorio are opening on stages here this month, most in the next two weeks, including two on the same Saturday night—one of them a one-off. However accidental, it feels like a festival.' | DeannaIsaacs
There’s a war raging in Europe. A brutal clash that includes an entrenched repressive autocracy and ordinary civilians determined to fight for their freedom. Tyrannical power is vested in one man—a deranged “security” professional who cares only about his own twisted agenda. He decides who lives and dies; everyone trembles before him.at Lyric Opera, where someone does take him out. But with consequences. It’s not a happy ending.
Meanwhile, it’s feast or famine for opera in Chicago. We can wander for months in an opera desert, then find ourselves caught in a torrent. Four operas and an oratorio are opening on stages here this month, most in the next two weeks, including two on the same Saturday night—one of them a one-off. However accidental, it feels like a festival.famously features some of opera’s most thrilling music.
All the more so since the villain, police chief Baron Scarpia, who can be the evil but charismatic hub of the story, is, in this production, a relatively nondescript presence. As sung by baritone Fabián Veloz , he’s almost as unimposing as that twerp in the Kremlin who’s holding the world hostage with threats of nuclear Armageddon.Through 4/10: Fri 3/18, 7 PM; Wed 3/23, 2 PM; Sat 3/26, 2:30 PM; Sun 4/3, 2 PM; Thu 4/7, 2 PM; Sun 4/10, 2 PM; Lyric Opera House, 20 N.
Then, as the audience stood, chorus, orchestra, and those in attendance who knew it united for a performance of the Ukrainian national anthem. The war at the crux ofThe international nature of classical music, noted by Freud, means that the lesser effects of this war will include cancellations of performances for logistical and philosophical reasons. And it brings a longstanding quandary—the original cancel culture question—to the fore.
In a statement issued by the Met, general manager Peter Gelb said this is “a great artistic loss . . . but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine, there was no way forward.”
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