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50 Years of COT: Anniversary Season Boasts Shostakovich, Heggie, Premieres, and More

Three mainstage operas, three additional special events, and all six titles are Chicago premieres.

Kerry FrumkinSeptember 14, 2018

Sound the Shofar!

Associated PressSeptember 13, 2018

Poland’s Tomasz Ritter wins Chopin contest on period pianos

Associated PressSeptember 13, 2018

Russian orchestra hires conductor accused of sexual abuse

Dallas Opera postpones opening night from October to March

Associated PressJune 5, 2020

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Opera is postponing opening night from Oct. 9 to March 5 and cutting its 2020-21 season from five productions to four. The company says Verdi’s “Don Carlo” will replace Wagner’s “Lohengrin” next season and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice” has been dropped. “Don Carlo” which was canceled in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dallas Opera’s ...

Playlist: Keepin’ it unreal with pioneering composer and artist Moondog

Daniel GoldbergJune 4, 2020

Of the thousands of people who passed Moondog as he stood, dressed as a Viking, on his customary Manhattan street corner, few realized that they were walking by one of the great minds of 20th-century music.

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