Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)
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The Case for Puccini
March 27, 2003
Puccini: A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Puccini: His Life and Works
by Julian Budden
Puccini: His International Art
by Michele Girardi, translated from the Italian by Laura Basini
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The Music of Carl Dahlhaus: An Exchange
April 26, 1990
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Up from Beethoven
October 26, 1989
Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by J. Bradford Robinson
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Operamania
October 13, 1988
A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera
by Peter Conrad
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Let Handel Be Handel
March 17, 1988
Handel’s Operas: 17041726 by Winton Dean, by John Merrill Knapp
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Making a Comeback
March 31, 1983
Donizetti and His Operas by William Ashbrook
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Picasso and Chicago
February 20, 2013 – May 12, 2013
This exhibition is drawn largely from the city's own private collectors and from the Art Institute itself, so it does not simply show off what is well known or has been often reproduced.
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Riccardo Muti Conducts Bach's B-minor Mass
April 11, 2013 – April 16, 2013
This promises to be one of the most important concerts of the season. What Muti will do is anyone's guess, but you need to be there.
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Proof
March 7, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Seeing Charles Newell’s production of Proof is one of the most remarkable evenings in the theater you will ever have.
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Measure for Measure
March 9, 2013 – April 14, 2013
The director Robert Falls is always capable of illuminating a text, and in this case he treats Shakespeare's "black comedy" as "black as pitch," especially by imposing a shocking ending.
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La Gazzetta
April 6, 2013 – April 9, 2013
This production of La Gazzetta is probably the American premiere of the sole comic opera Rossini wrote for Naples, falling right between Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola.