The first of my annual Chicago Opera Theater season talks has snuck up on me. It's today at 12:15 p.m. at the Chicago Cultural Center, Washington and Michigan/Randolph and Michigan (technical address: 78 East Washington), probably on the Fifth Floor but signs are posted throughout the building.
I talk about the ideas in and behind each opera and there is plenty of time for questions and discussion as well.
Today's topic is Don Giovanni. COT's production, conducted by Jane Glover and staged by Diane Paulus, opens next Wednesday April 30 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. It completes the thus-far successful COT/Glover/Paulus traversal of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle.
It's free. And the audience tells me that the speaker is quite spontaneous.
John Adams's A Flowering Tree talk -- Tuesday May 6 at 12:15 p.m.
Handel's Orlando -- Thursday May 22 at 12:15 p.m.
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