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chicagolyricoperao
- Oct 25, 2019
- 1 min
Congratulations Judi!
Photo credit: Todd Rosenberg One of the first things that happened this season, even before we got started rehearsing, was an audition fo...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Oct 21, 2019
- 1 min
Opening Night
It gets pretty fancy around the Opera House on opening night. Our intrepid photographers got some photos of arriving audience members bef...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Oct 19, 2019
- 2 min
We're back, Baby!
That's right! After 6 months away from the Opera House, it's good to get back and reacquainted with everyone in the pit. Some of our orch...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
Opera Babies
We've got 2 new babies to celebrate! French Horn player Fritz Foss and his wife Sarah welcomed their son August on January 16, and Pat Br...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
End of Season Party
Maestro Davis with some of our guys Susan Warner, clarinet, and Mark Brandfonbrener, cello Laura Deming, cello ...
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Laura Deming, cello
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
A Gracious Meeting
This article is part of a series about Lyric Opera of Chicago audience members we orchestra players get to know and care about. Last Fall...
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Melissa Trier Kirk, Viola
- Apr 12, 2019
- 2 min
Matt Comerford, Trumpet, Retires
We bid a fond farewell to Matt Comerford, our beloved Co-Assistant Principal Trumpet, who retired at the end of the 2019 season. Matt g...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Mar 5, 2019
- 2 min
IN RESPONSE
The New York Times ran an article titled ‘Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing’, by Michael Cooper (Dec. 21, 2018). In it, Gener...
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chicagolyricoperao
- Mar 4, 2019
- 1 min
Doing Good
Violinist Bing Jing Yu performs at Prentice Hospital as part of Sharing Notes, an organization devoted to bringing comfort and joy to Chi...
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Teresa Fream, violin
- Mar 3, 2019
- 3 min
Working Without Pay
What do a furloughed TSA agent and a short, late-middle-aged opera violinist have in common? More than you might think. My family and I ...
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Melissa Trier Kirk, viola
- Feb 26, 2019
- 1 min
No Viola Crossing
Carrying fragile instruments in and out of the orchestra pit is always challenging but librarian (and part time traffic cop) Wendy Skozce...
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Laura Deming, cello
- Feb 22, 2019
- 1 min
Valentine Vignette
A romantic story that has been passed down in my family is that my grandfather proposed to my grandmother during the 2nd intermission of ...
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