Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Lyric Opera nails a Butterfly while Theo Ubique channels Callas

Check out the review in the Chicago Reader. 

This week saw the opening of both Theo Ubique's Master Class—the Terrence McNally play about Maria Callas—and Lyric Opera's Madama Butterfly.I saw them a day apart, which made for some interesting reverberations.
Master Class, at No Exit Cafe, is such an intimate production that you might want to avoid the front-row seats. Callas, played by the admirable Kelli Harrington, leaves the singing to her three ostensible students, each of whom delivers a high-volume vocal in pretty close proximity to your eardrums.
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