Lyric Opera Lectures
Enhance your enjoyment and understanding of opera performed in the 2006-2007 season at the Lyric Opera House by attending free preview lectures at the Newberry Library by the Lyric Opera Lecture Corps. The Newberry Library will host lectures on six of the season’s eight operas.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
Turandot
by Giacomo Puccini
Tuesday, September 19, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Julie Anne Benson
Iphigenie en Tauride
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Tuesday, October 3, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Kip Kelley
Salome
by Richard Strauss
Tuesday, October 24, 6:00 pm
Speakers: Howard and Mary Robins
Romeo et Juliette
by Charles Gounod
Tuesday, November 14, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Lyn Snoble
Die Fledermaus
by Johann Strauss, Jr.
Tuesday, January 9, 6:00 pm
Speaker: John Piepgras
Dialogues of the Carmelites
by Francis Poulenc
Tuesday, February 13, 6:00 pm
Speaker: John Kohlmeier
The Newberry Library gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Haffner for their generous support of public programming. Major funding is also provided by Richard and Barbara Franke, the MacLean-Fogg Family, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. McGhee, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally, and the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
The Newberry Library
Center for Public Programs
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
telephone: (312) 255-3700
fax: (312) 255-3680
e-mail: pubprog@newberry.org