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Chicago Opera Theater
5/12/2010 7:30 PM at Jake Heggie’s THREE DECEMBERS
Harris Theater at Millennium Park, 205 East Randolph, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Cost: $30+
The legendary Frederica von Stade makes her first appearance with Chicago Opera Theater in this opera written especially for her by Jake Heggie, of Dead Man Walking fame. A glamorous stage actress reveals a shocking secret of their family’s past to her two adult children facing dark challenges of their own. Based on a short play by Terrence McNally with a libretto by Gene Scheer. Jake Heggie’s intimate score features just 11 musicians, and will be performed with Heggie himself at the piano. “Jake Heggie has a true gift for soaring and meaningful melody, a great ear for orchestral effects, a talent for picking good source material, and a knack for crafting affecting melodrama (in the best sense of that word) that can move an audience to tears.” —Opera Today (Sung in Englsh with English supertitles). http://www.chicagooperatheater.org/tix/season/decembers.html
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