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Bellissima Opera

  • Spoon River House Festival

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    Claudia

    Sep 13, 2024 – Sep 22, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and Working In Concert invite you to the Hyde Park house where Edgar Lee Masters wrote the classic Spoon River Anthology. Three different shows take place in a 2-weekend festival celebrating this iconic work from…

  • A musical tribute to Carol Weston

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    Claudia

    Aug 4, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Old Town School of Folk Music and Working In Concert invite her legion of friends, colleagues and fans to honor the late Carol Weston on Sunday, August 4, 2024, 3pm to 6pm at the Szold Hall of Old Town School. RSVP’s are appreciated, but…

  • An operatic double-header

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    Claudia

    Jul 20, 2024 – Jul 21, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Save the date for “Speed Dating” and get ringside seats for “Outside the Ring” as Bellissima Opera brings us a double bill of the often poignant, sometimes outrageous, and always spectacular sports of dating and boxing. Speed Dating Tonight!, libretto and music…

  • International Women’s Day Concert

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    Claudia

    Mar 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Our annual celebration showcasing women in the arts.Advanced reservation discount ends March 6. Singers Kimberly Jones, Janet Mensen Reynolds, Alison Meuth, and Christine Steyer are joined by collaborative pianists Jennifer McCabe and Sarah Yoon-Mayer. Special guests will be poet Maureen Kwiat Meshenberg and singer Dayanara…

  • Happy Apple Pie Shop Fundraiser

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    Katie Rub

    Oct 28, 2023 @ 11:30 am – 5:00 pm – On Saturday, October 28, Oak Park’s Happy Apple Pie Shop will donate 10% of all their pies and mini-pie sales to Working In Concert’s Opera In The Classroom program. Since 2010, our Bellissima Opera outreach program has brought music to 24,000 area school kids.  Working In Concert President Christine Steyer will…

  • Two Concerts with Christine Steyer

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    Christine Steyer

    Oct 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Working In Concert President Christine Steyer will be offering two concerts this month. Steyer will be joined by Michael Finlay on piano and cellist Brian Hoffman in a unique program of seldom performed works. Click the link below to get tickets. October 27 in Schaumburg

  • Cabaret Connexion 2023 conference and festival in Paris

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    Claudia

    Aug 28, 2023 – Sep 4, 2023 @ All Day – TRAVEL with us to FRANCE in 2023 The fifth Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion exchange takes place in Paris from August 28 to September 4, 2023. Our mission is to “advance together the art of cabaret”. The itinerary includes 20 hours of workshops and master…

  • Birds, Bees, And Other Beasts

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    Lydia Stux

    Jul 30, 2023 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Join us for our second summer friendraiser at a private garden in Albany Park. Swingin’ Sisters leads the pack with singers from SongShop and the Cabaret Connexion travelers including David Hoffman, the Swingin’ Sisters (Barbara, Carolyn and Tirzah), René Lara, Christian Halvorsen, Ruth Fuerst, Staci Kelley,…

  • Blooming Opera and Cabaret

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    Lydia Stux

    Jul 9, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – ‘Opera Comes to the Cabaret’ al fresco fest and feast Fest: Music Direction by Carl Ratner, Howie Pfiefer, and Dana Brown featuring Susan Arjmand, Jessie Bolger, Susan Lewis Friedman, Dominique Frigo, Rose Guccione, Sean Harris, Claudia Hommel, Elisabeth Howard, Rosalind Hurwitz, Carl Ratner, Katie Rub,…

  • International Women’s Day 2023 Concert

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    Claudia

    Mar 5, 2023 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm – This all-female concert celebrates the contributions of women in the arts in song! Premiering a new vocal quartet: “Will They Remember Life Was Beautiful?”

  • Healthy Singing––Our New Year’s Resolution for Vocal Health

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    Claudia

    Jan 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Christine Steyer offers a special session on Healthy Singing––A New Year’s Resolution for Vocal Health Register Today! Join award-winning soprano and voice teacher Christine Steyer for a fun-filled session on maintaining a healthy singing voice. We will explore body parts involved in producing a powerful and…

  • On Call: COVID-19 at OperaFestXV

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    Claudia

    Nov 5, 2022 – Nov 6, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Our award-winning opera is live for the first time! Come see the Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts production up close and personal at OperaFest XV. On Call: COVID-19, a one-hour opera honoring the healthcare workers who braved harrowing days of…