Opera’s future needs more than its past. Lyric Opera's world premiere "Proximity," a stimulating mashup of three different one-act works, is Chicago's latest proof.
Lyric deserves enormous credit for embracing this undertaking and going all in both in terms of scale and daring. It is, by any measure, a major event.
In a radical departure, the three new operas featured in ‘Proximity’ are not being treated as stand-alone pieces presented in succession, but are interwoven.
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