2 Video: 42 BALLOONS North American Premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater 3 Photos: 42 BALLOONS North American Premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater The concert features a comprehensive survey of ...

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As the story unfolds in one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, the hero is beheaded at the end. A baby is thrown into a burning fire at the beginning. In between are epic battles between armies.

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Has there ever been a more performance-proof work than “Aida”? Verdi’s imperishably popular grand opera has been around Chicago for as long as Chicago has had resident opera, and it has figured in ...

e lie presently in a fallow period of Verdi singing -- there are few sopranos, tenors, baritones or basses of the quality of those who reigned from 1900 to the 1970s. The glory days within our ...

The San Francisco Opera opened its new season Friday night with a seminar on the question that has bedeviled philosophers since time immemorial: Does size really matter? The answers that emerged over ...

Tagged a "barihunk'', singer Jud Arthur is also a farrier. Jud Arthur clearly remembers his farming days in Mosgiel, 30 years ago, mustering sheep and working as a horse farrier. He still shoes horses ...

Composers of the stature of this year’s big anniversary figures need little help or special pleading at any time, but it is fascinating to contrast their respective fortunes in 2013. While some might ...