The Opera Festival Of Chicago, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, presents a series of original Italian works, with masterpieces rarely performed on the US stages, built around the theme “Power, Glory, and Betrayal”.
The festival will open on 6 July with one of the most famous compositions by Ildebrando Pizzetti, “Murder in the Cathedral”, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s play of 1935 of the same name.
On 12 July, “An Italian Soirée” will be on show. During the evening, the festival artists will perform a music selection inspired by this edition’s theme. Celebrated arias, duets and trios will combine with instrumental tracks taking their inspiration from the best Italian operas of all time.
On 13 July, the festival will host the internationally renowned Italian bass player Ferruccio Furlanetto on the stage of the Harris Theater. With more than 50 years of career and international fame, Furlanetto will perform a recital of opera arias taken from “The Marriage of Figaro”, “Don Giovanni”, “Boris Godunov” and “Don Carlo”.
To close the festival, from 20 to 23 July, the famous “Attila” by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in 1846, will be staged at the Cahn Auditorium. The opera, divided into a prologue and three acts, will take the public to the mid-fifth century near Rome, following Attila, the King of the Huns. A story, indeed, of “Power, Glory and Betrayal”.
