Lyric Opera Explores Contrast in 2024-2025 Season wfmt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfmt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Joffrey Ballet Soars in Bravura Study of the Human Condition wttw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wttw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The music of Terence Blanchard has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago with his first opera: Champion, an 'opera in jazz' inspired by the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who threw a fatal punch in the boxing ring in 1962. Check out production photos here!
“In ‘Champion’ we see how Blackness, boxing and manhood can unexpectedly, and eloquently, be expressed in the expansive genre of opera.” This observation by Professor Naomi André, in a splendid
Lyric Opera brings one-two punch in jazzy opera 'Champion' chicagocrusader.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagocrusader.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.