Lyric Opera music director Enrique Massola batons this full out classical opera extravaganza with a masterful hand and partners with an all star cast to make this a must see opera. Verdi’s Ernani returns to the Lyric and checks off every box for die hard fans: a tragic love quadrangle, lush period costumes and sets (designed by Scott Marr) big choral scenes that inspire (conducted by Michael Black) and a Verdi score that has all the bells and whistles, or in this case arias and recitatives. I come from an opera family my kids were supernumeraries the way some families are soccer families, so we anticipate the season with the Pritzker Pavilion pregame season teaser every year and get some tastes of what is to come.
I always know the fall has begun in earnest when Chicago’s Lyric Opera rolls out the red carpet on the Wacker Drive portico and returns to the Civic Opera House.
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