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Justine F. Chen for COT's 50th anniversary season

COT’s 22-23 Season: ‘Turing’ World Premiere, Britten, Heggie for 50th Anniversary

In this celebratory season, audiences will hear two twentieth-century operas and three world premieres across COT’s full slate of mainstage and special programming.

Stephen RaskauskasApril 20, 2015

Julia Wolfe Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music

Stephen RaskauskasApril 10, 2015

Guggenheim Fellow Rudresh Mahanthappa On Creating Music that Defies Genre

Stephen RaskauskasMarch 31, 2015

Strike Up the Wind Band: Celebrating 50 Years of the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Michael San GabinoJune 6, 2019

Though Northwestern's band program dates back to 1911, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble began in 1969.

Luciano Pavarotti as Enzo Grimaldo in the SF Opera’s 1979 production of La Gioconda (Photo: Ron Scherl)

Ron Howard tells Pavarotti’s ‘bittersweet’ story in new doc

Associated PressJune 4, 2019

"My hope is the film goes a step toward that agenda of his which was to democratize the art form and broaden the audience reach."

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$32 Million to the CSO

Noel MorrisJune 12, 2014

Chicago-based Sam and Helen Zell acknowledged a $17 million dollar gift from the Zell Family Foundation for the endowment of the position currently held by music director Riccardo Muti.

Ana María Martínez: “Czech Was the Hardest”

Noel MorrisFebruary 21, 2014

Lyric Opera formalized its commitment to extending their resources to Chicago’s neighborhoods, naming Ana María Martínez and Eric Owens community ambassadors.

Beethoven’s Smile: Yes, He Had One

Noel MorrisDecember 16, 2013

“After the final chord, I looked up. The Master’s darkly glowing gaze was fixed upon me penetratingly. Yet suddenly a benevolent smile broke up his gloomy features, Beethoven became quite close, bent over me, laid his hand on my head and repeatedly stroked my hair. ‘Devil of a fellow’ he whispered, ‘such a young rascal!’ I suddenly plucked up courage. ...

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