Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on Chicago's love affair with opera. With hundred illustrations, this book offers an overview, which is supplemented with a complete list of all the professional opera performances in Chicago, from 1850 to 2005. It is suitable for people interested in music - especially opera - and the history of Chicago.
Trade ReviewFact-packed, lively.... 150 Years of Opera in Chicago radiates the affectionate and comprehensive knowledge of [Marsh and Pellegrini] about the most glamorous and expensive of the performing arts.
* Illinois Heritage *
A fine book. With the unusual stylishness of the writing and its fascinating subject... every line that you read demands that you keep going, and makes you read on and on.
* Opera Today *
Essential reading.
* Chicago Tribune *
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Preface
Author's Preface
Introduction
1 The Roots of a Tradition, 1850–1864
2 The Crosby Years, 1865–1871
3 A Tradition Rebuilt, 1872–1889
4 The Met West, 1884–1910
5 A New Tradition, 1910–1929
6 The Ravinia Opera, 1912–1931
7 A New Theater, 1929–1947
8 New York Takes Over, 1943–1954
9 The Lyric Theater, 1954–1955
10 The Fox Years, 1956–1981
11 The Krainik Years, 1981–1997
12 A New Beginning, 1997–2000
13 A Changing Repertory over the First 150 Years
14 Paying the Bills and Broadening the Audience
Appendix A—Overview of Chicago Opera Staging Organizations
Appendix B—Annals of Opera in Chicago, 1850–2005
—Index
—Annals
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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