Singer

An absurdist fable commemorating the October Revolution, Black Square is, as described by its creators, “a tragicomic love story that mixes intellectual traditions of Russian avant-garde and the fast pacing style of an action thriller." The work features music by Ilya Demutsky, celebrated composer of the ballets Anna Karenina and Eugene Onegin, and libretto by Olga Maslova and Igor Konyukov.

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Black Square

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea is an opera by Paola Prestini, Royce Vavrek and Karmina Šilec that presents a dual track of storytelling by combining the Hemingway text with original portraits of quotidian life to create a look at aging, legacy, and our relationship to oceans. The work includes longtime collaborators/muses of Prestini’s including Jeffrey Zeigler as the featured cellist. The cast includes a choir, and brings to life the seminal characters: Santiago, Manolin, and the wife, recast as La Virgen del Cobre, a goddess in Santería, the Afro-Caribbean faith, who was found floating on a wooden board off the coast of eastern Cuba in 1628. Themes of baseball, ecology, religion, and economy paint a conflict between progress and tradition, craft passion and exploitation, ultimately shedding contemporary perspectives on this timeless tale.

The Old Man and the Sea

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lyric Theatre @ Illinois invites you to spend an evening Under the Stars in the beautiful Sunken Garden at Allerton Park & Retreat Center listening to romantic favorites from opera and musical theatre. Eat and drink with family and friends and be transported as the orchestra and singers perform selections from the world’s most beloved theatrical works.

Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Presents: Under The Stars

Allerton Park & Retreat Center

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun’s one-man opera stars baritone Nathan Gunn as a father-to-be struggling to become a man his daughter would be proud of. His journal — a gift for his unborn daughter — traces the journey unfolding before him. You don’t have to be a father to love this story.

Nathan Gunn

Baritone

Events

2 - 6 Apr, 2024

Black Square · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Feb 10, 2024

The Old Man and the Sea · Beth Morrison Projects

21 - 23 Sep, 2023

Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Presents: Under The Stars · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

13 - 17 Apr, 2022

In Our Daughter's Eyes · LA Opera

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