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CSO 2022-23: Muti’s Farewell Season

Banner works by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev headline Muti’s three CSO residencies, ahead of the conclusion of his tenure with Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.

Stephen RaskauskasJune 10, 2015

How One Chord Changed the World: “Tristan” at 150

Stephen RaskauskasJune 9, 2015

What If Nina Simone Had Been a Classical Pianist?

WFMTMay 14, 2015

Minnesota Orchestra To Perform Historic Concerts in Cuba

Maria Callas will return to Chicago in September. No, we’re not kidding.

Keegan MorrisJune 4, 2019

Maria Callas will return to Chicago’s Lyric Opera House for one night only... in hologram form!

Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs

Associated PressJune 4, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — “When I am laid in earth,” the heroine sings just before she dies at the end of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this week in the catacombs of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. The ...

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