I am not sure that I am very good at it - but conflict resolution is something that from time to time has to be dealt with. I think that the secret m...
Brian Dickie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
Now the business schools are having a heart-searching reassessment, and putting a little more emphasis on that great subject of ethics. Or so we are told.
Brian Dickie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
... 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...
Brian Dickie | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
Audiences are not behaving the way they used to and given that the whole model for American performing arts assumes a predictable pattern of behavior, this is making us think.
Brian Dickie | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
So our regulars, our always curious Chicago Opera Theater audience, have voted for Moscow Cheryomushki, Shostakovich's 1959 operetta set in Kruschev's Moscow.
Brian Dickie | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
An operatic Facebook? The Opera Insider looks like an interesting addition to the collection in these days of so much social networking.
Brian Dickie | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
Yesterday evening's event at the Art Institute was a rare opportunity. Steuart Bedford and John Evans, a direct line to Britten. Wonderful conversati...
Brian Dickie | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
An illustrated explanation of the Chicago Opera Theater's Owen Wingrave.
Brian Dickie | Posted 06.08.2009 | Chicago
There is no doubt that the audience was gripped once they got over a few questions: "Is this Carmen? I recognize these tunes, but where's the chorus?"
Brian Dickie | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
With all this Carmen stuff going on I have rather neglected the Owen Wingrave rehearsals.
Brian Dickie | Posted 05.28.2009 | Chicago
The little orchestra that Marius Constant contrived for the Peter Brook adaptation of Carmen which opens next week is a miracle of compactness.
Brian Dickie | Posted 05.11.2009 | Chicago
The winning video in the Chicago Opera Theater's free opera contest.
Brian Dickie | Posted 04.27.2009 | Chicago
These are difficult times so we have much to do other than producing good opera.
Brian Dickie | Posted 04.10.2009 | Chicago
Our fund raising party Sunday was a terrific affair and we found the Spertus Institute to be a really excellent place for an event of this kind. We h...
Brian Dickie | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
Here we are with a marketing gimmick which just may be an operatic first.
Brian Dickie | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago
A great incentive to subscribers is a gift voucher for President Obama's favorite Hyde Park restaurant in Hyde Park, the Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop.
Brian Dickie | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
A show is employment for a large number of artists and crafts people. So the stimulus package's tiddly $50M for the arts can be put to work with disproportionate effect.
Brian Dickie | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago