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Signs outside Lyric Opera of Chicago, advertising upcoming
performances.
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Wagner and More, Seattle Opera’s social group for opera
lovers, recently took a trip to Chicago to take in some great opera, theater, music, and art. The group also went on a behind-the-scenes tour
of Chicago Lyric’s Die Walküre set, caught
a Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance of Schubert, and more. This WAM group
really knows how to pack in the artistic and theatrical fun (while also leaving
enough time to catch the Seahawks game).
Check out their itinerary below, and consider joining up!
WAM has plenty of local events (about 16 per year), and their next trip is gearing
up for the Ring Cycle at San
Francisco Opera in June.
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| WAM Members Rachael Schneider, Marilyn and Jean Schweitzer, Bill Etnyre, Megan Pursell and Stephen Sprenger enjoying the mild Chicago winter. |
Friday began with a brilliant lecture by Sue Elliott (Seattle
Opera’s former Director of Education), followed by a backstage tour
at Chicago Lyric. Later in the day, Chicago Lyric’s General Director, Anthony
Freud, an old friend of Seattle Opera General Director Aidan Lang’s, greeted the
group before a lovely dinner in the exclusive Pederson Room at the Lyric Opera
house.
The crown jewel of the trip, Die Walküre, featured Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde and Brandon
Jovanovich, a former Seattle Opera young artist and mainstage performer, as Sigmund. This was a new production, following last
year’s Das Rheingold. The setting was
Wagner’s time—late-nineteenth century.
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Wigs from Die Walküre from the backstage tour at Lyric Opera Chicago.
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Saturday the group had some free time, then went to the famous
Steppenwolf Theatre for The Minutes,
a compelling play by Tracy Letts, that starts off as a small-town comedy, and then
morphs into a magical-realism tragedy.
That evening they basked in the music of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, doing Schubert.
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Maestro Manfred Honeck conducts the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra in Schubert’s 9th Symphony.
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On Sunday, after navigating the Bears-Packers traffic, the group attended a docent’s tour of the Field Museum, then to Chicago Opera Theater, for The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti, which
was done at Seattle Opera a few years ago. This production featured Patricia Racette
as Magda (she performed Seattle Opera’s Cio-Cio-San six years ago), and
Victoria Livengood as the mother (she was the mother in Katya last year). (One of the WAM members got a chance to chat with
her at the airport the next day.) The
group was hosted in their Donor Lounge by the president of their Board, Susan
Irion.
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| The Minutes by Tracy Letts at Steppenwolf Theatre. |
For the grand finale, they dined at the elegant Coco Pazzo, where they
were joined by two musicians from the Lyric orchestra. They returned to
Seattle on Monday, tired from the whirlwind tour, but also happy and inspired.
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| WAM president Dick Gemperle with wife Marybeth, Jean and Marilyn Schweitzer, Jana Hollingsworth, Margaret Ohashi, Cathryn Brite and Bill Etnyre at Die Walküre at Lyric Opera of Chicago. |
WAM attendees: Cathy Brite, Bill Etnyre, Gail Gazda, Dick
and Mary Beth Gemperle, Janet Graeber, Jana Hollingsworth, Margaret Ohashi,
Megan Purcell, Rachel Schneider, Jean Stark, Jean Schweitzer, Stephen Sprenger,
and Moya Vazquez. Seattle Opera staff: General Director Aidan Lang, Director of
Development Lisa Bury, and Senior Individual Giving Officer Tracy Reich.
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