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Thursday, June 18, 2026

The Opera Festival of Chicago Pairs “La Boheme” with a Rarer Paris-Set Masterwork by Mark Thomas Ketterson

Sasha Gerritson, the festival's general director, shares their plans for the summer season, titled "Bohemian Tragedy," and discusses the strategy behind it.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Lyric Opera Revives "Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci" in a Double Bill of Italian Opera by Mark Thomas Ketterson

The classic Elijah Moshinsky stagings of Mascagni and Leoncavallo's works follows the opera's season-opening mounting of Cherubini's "Medea."

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Friday, January 26, 2024

Fairytale Dazzle: A Review of "Cinderella" at Lyric Opera by Mark Thomas Ketterson

Ponnelle's mounting remains a near-ideal take on the piece, and his whimsical grey-stone settings and eye-catching costumes emit as much fairytale dazzle as ever.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Lyric revisits one of Verdi's toe-tappers with success by Mark Thomas Ketterson

When Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore" premiered in 1853, it was the second of a trio of masterpieces including "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" that emerged in the composer's "middle" career per…

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