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Renee Fleming Mentors Chicago High School Students

AP | By CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 04.04.2012

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CHICAGO -- There's a reason Renee Fleming has been dubbed "The People's Diva." For the past school year, the famed soprano has been mentoring teen vo...

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CSO Director Given A Pacemaker

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital say a common heart rhythm disturbance caused Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Ricca...

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CSO Director Riccardo Muti To Undergo Surgery

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti (MOO'-ti) will undergo surgery for facial injuries he suffered after fainting ...

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CSO Director Riccardo Muti Collapses During Rehearsal

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Other conductors will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's upcoming performances after music director Riccardo Muti fainted during re...

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That was the decade that was!

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

I have had the good fortune to have been in Chicago for the whole of the first decade of the 21st century which ended over the weekend. It has been a...

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Riccardo Muti Released From Hospital: CSO Director Expected Back In February

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Symphony Orchestra says music director Riccardo Muti has been released from an Italian hospital and is expected to resume ...

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An Interview With CSO's Riccardo Muti

Time Out Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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Considered one of the most remarkable talents in Italian music, Riccardo Muti is about to turn a corner in his already impressive and lengthy career w...

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Anna Nicole Smith And The Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Posted 05.25.2011

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What do Anna Nicole Smith and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra have in common? An opera, apparently. The opera, Texan Tenebrae, based on the tough life...

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Double Dose Of Mozart At Ravinia: Music Director Celebrates 60th Birthday

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Ingredients for a birthday party: Take two Mozart operas, stir in some expert soloists, combine with the Chicago Symphony ...

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CSO Loses Its Director To 'Extreme Gastric Distress'

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced that music director Riccardo Muti is withdrawing from the rest of his fall residency beca...

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Festa Muti!

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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The next four weeks are Festa Muti in Chicago - and it kicked off tonight with a splendid event in Millennium Park with a huge crowd, and I mean reall...

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Good news, bad news department

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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I think that we could live with this - The English National Opera's new opera based on Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, is all set to be a sensational ...

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What are we here for?

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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At the end of our short season it seems to be a legitimate question to ask. And it is a question that I ask from time to time during the rest of the ...

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Cold and Quiet

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a few mild days it seems we are getting back to freezing again this week - not yet as deep as before but still time to bundle up. And we will be...

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Life as General Director of Chicago Opera Theater ...

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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... And there are days when it would be good to illustrate the varied stuff I have the pleasure of dealing with, enjoying, or whatever ... I had a go...

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The People's Opera - Москва Черемушки

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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So our regulars, our always curious Chicago Opera Theater audience, have voted for Moscow Cheryomushki, Shostakovich's 1959 operetta set in Kruschev's Moscow.

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Get Some Culture: CSO Performs Don Giovanni At Ravinia

Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Giovanni Chicago Symphony Orchestra James Conlon conductor Apollo Chorus of Chicago Mozart The Libertine Punished, or Don Giovanni, K. 527 Tick...

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