Opera Performances and Opera Festivals PICTURE THIS POST Loves 2016 and 2017

Editor’s Note:  Read reviews and previews of more recent and upcoming opera performances here.

Editor’s Note: Click here to read related stories — 2019, 2020 and 2021 Operas We Love Archives

Editor’s Note: Click here to read related stories — 2018 Operas We Love Archives

2016 and 2017 Opera Archives—

Picture This Post LOVES opera!

Click a picture on this page to find a review or preview of an opera performance or opera festival that caught the eye and ear of Picture This Post in 2016 and 2017.  Or, find below links to these reviews listed alphabetically by venue and then chronologically within each venue.

Capital  City Opera of Atlanta

• Capitol City Opera of Atlanta Presents MAN OF LA MANCHA Review – Powerful Music

Chicago Opera Theater

• Chicago Opera Theater presents THE PERFECT AMERICAN Review—A Meditation on Legacy

• Chicago Opera Theater THE INVENTION OF MOREL Review – A Recorded Love Story

• Chicago Opera Theater’s “The Love Potion” Review – Music That Moves

Folks Operetta

• Folks Operetta Presents THE CSÁRDÁS PRINCESS Review – Lost Kálmán Operetta

• Chicago Folks Operetta Presents JOHNNY JOHNSON Review – Questions and Reality of War

Chicago Fringe Opera

• Chicago Fringe Opera Presents LUCREZIA Review – Zarzuela Bolcom Style 

Harris Theater

• Harris Theater Presents WAR & PEACE: HARMONY THROUGH MUSIC– Passion. Loss, Peace Reign Supreme

• Harris Theater Hosts The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES Review: Bernstein, Brahms and More

Lyric Opera

• Lyric Opera Presents TURANDOT Review – Spectacle!

• Lyric Opera’s 2017-2018 Season Preview – Unrequited Love in Song

• Lyric Opera Presents RIGOLETTO Review‑Transporting Talents

• Lyric Opera Backstage Tour Review– How the Opera Magic Gets Made

• Lyric Opera Stages Tchaikovsky’s EUGENE ONEGIN Review – Spotlight on Passions

• Lyric Opera presents NORMA Review – Coloratura Confection

• Lyric Opera Presents “The Magic Flute” Review –With Lots of “Let’s Make Pretend”

• Lyric Opera’s Chicago Voices presents COMMUNITY CREATED PERFORMANCES: STORIES AND SONGS OF CHICAGO Review

• Lyric Opera of Chicago Presents DIE WALKURE Review – Shattering and Beautiful

• Lyric Opera Updates CARMEN Review – Classic with Choreographer’s Touch

• Lyric Opera Updates CARMEN Review – Classic with Choreographer’s Touch

• Lyric Opera MY FAIR LADY Review— Lerner & Loewe Classic

• Lyric Opera Presents ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE Review – Opera for Ballet Lovers

• Lyric Opera’s DON QUICHOTTE – Great Book, Great Voices, Great Stage

• Lyric Opera’s THE TROJANS (LES TROYENS) Review— Noble and Grand Passions Abound

• Lyric’s Lucia di Lammermoor Review— Singing So Superb

Santa Fe Opera

• New Mexico History Museum & Santa Fe Opera Present ATOMIC HISTORIES Exhibit Preview

 

Editor’s Note:  Read reviews and previews of more recent and upcoming opera performances here.

Editor’s Note: Click here to read related stories — 2019, 2020 and 2021 Operas We Love Archives

Editor’s Note: Click here to read related stories — 2018 Operas We Love Archives