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First Planned for 2020, Opera Festival of Chicago Finally Opens Inaugural Season

The new company launches with fully staged works by Puccini and Wolf-Ferrari, plus a concert inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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Kristina Lynn | July 21, 2021

Hop In! Ear Taxi Festival Announces Fall 2021 Return

Adela Skowronski | July 16, 2021

Masumi Per Rostad on Beethoven, YouTube, and the Viola

Associated Press | July 15, 2021

Opera returns to open-air desert theater with diverse cast

Opera returns to open-air desert theater with diverse cast

Associated Press | July 15, 2021
The Santa Fe Opera's first performance over the weekend included an unmasked cast and a masked audience.

Prokofiev, Hahn, Lang Lang Headline CSO’s 2021-22 Return To Stage

Keegan Morris | July 13, 2021
The CSO announces an array of concerts from September to January.

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Lyric Announces 2021-22 Season With ‘Magic Flute,’ ‘Macbeth,’ Mazzola

Recording Registry adds albums by Janet Jackson, Nas

Watch WFMT’s First ‘Classical Conversation’ With Denyce Graves

George Floyd kin joins protest anthem album project

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Music, Fable, and Batman: Why Beethoven’s Story Makes for a Perfect Comic Book

Daniel Goldberg | July 7, 2021
WFMT sits down with the two writers of The Final Symphony: A Beethoven Anthology a comic book collection inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Met Opera stagehands to return to work after lockout

Associated Press | July 7, 2021
Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera planned to return to work Wednesday after recommending their union ratify a new labor contract negotiated following a lockout that started last year.

QUIZ | Could You Be Mahler’s BFF?

Adela Skowronski | July 6, 2021
Answer a few questions about Gustav Mahler's life and we'll tell you whether you could be best buds!
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