June 19th, 2008
It’s kind of funny that while your average American male would rather eat cod liver oil than go to an opera, the same guy will stand in line for an hour to see a new Jackie Chan movie. Yet the fact is, Jackie Chan’s roots go to the Chinese Opera, which has a vast and […]
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May 30th, 2008
I swear, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
In the category of “stage to screen” I could probably somewhat justify Al Gore’s famous slideshow, An Inconvenient Truth. After all, it went on to become not just a book but also a Nobel-Peace-Prize winning movie. Well, ok, Mr. Gore got the prize, but it wasn’t for his […]
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April 10th, 2008
CHICAGO OPERA THEATER, HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE, MILLENNIUM PARK, AND MILLENNIUM PARK, INC. TO PRESENT FIRST-EVER FREE LIVE SIMULCAST PRESENTATION OF AN OPERA IN CHICAGO HISTORY, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008
That’s right - Millenium Park, really, is worth visiting even when the Chicago Opera Theater is not there; the architecture, the Bean, the video […]
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