Lyric Opera of Chicago

By Claudia Cassidy

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960353801
• ISBN13: 9780960353804
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: The Opera
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

25 Years History of an Historic Opera House in Chicago w/photos

From Back Jacket: "Lyric Opera celebrated its Gala 25th Anniversary with the opening of the 1979 Season. 98 productions have been staged of Italian, German, Czech, Russian, English and American opera, including the brilliant world premiere of Penderecki's 'Paradise Lost,' which travelled to Milan's La Scala, and on the Sala Nervi in the Vatican, where Lyric's artists and chorus performed for Pope John Paul II, thereby becoming the first American opera company ever to perform in the Vatican. Claudia Cassiday, America' great art critic, has been on the aisle since Lyric's 'Calling-Card' performance dazzled Chicago. Her text illuminates Lyric Opera's 25 years within the context of Chicago's oper-rich history. With her perceptive style, we relive these seasons, from Callas' encounter with a hapless process server, to Nureyev's American operatic debut in 'Prince Igor' (with Boris Christoff and a live falcon on his wrist!), to the power and beauty of magnificent presentations of such rarely seen works as 'Don Quichotte' and 'Khovanschina.' The book contains over 300 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them published for the first time. Saul Bellow...has contributed a Foreword, and Founder/General Managere Carol Fox has penned her thoughts on these 25 years. A complete listing of casts and repertoire is also included. With Claudia Cassidy's prose, these years are not pages in a history book. They live forever."