On December 7, The Lyric Opera of Chicago will present the world premiere of Bel Canto, based on Ann Patchett’s prize-winning novel, with music by composer Jimmy López and libretto by Pulitzer ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's world premiere run of "Bel Canto" will inevitably attract members of the global media and heads of international opera companies. Yet the Lyric is also making an effort to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHICAGO — The Lyric Opera couldn’t have known five years ago, when it started planning “Bel Canto,” that terrorism would be the hottest topic in America the ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Sea Beyond stars Giacomo Giorgio and Serena de Ferrari are among several Italian actors who have boarded Rai’s ambitious opera drama Bel Canto, which went into production this week.

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Who do they think they are, these people who want to teach us our trade? We know it ever so much better than they do. Let composers stick to their méetier and let us do ours! Composers who write out ...

Best-selling author Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto," the story of terrorists taking hostages at a South American embassy, will find a home on the stage, the Lyric Opera of Chicago announced Tuesday. The ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera Fleming adds, "It is simply stunning to see my good friend Ann Patchett's novel come to life onstage as an opera written ...

Will Crutchfield, longtime director of the Bel Canto at Caramoor series, announced today the formation of a new organization, Teatro Nuovo, that will continue and expand that program's work as it ...