Bellissima Opera
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Mar 8, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – Bellissima’s IWD 2026 tribute with an award-winning female roster showcasing women in the arts. Centerstage are singers Dominique Frigo, Marissa Howard, Jennifer Kosharsky, Christine Steyer and Lauren Sutherland, joined by violinist Becky Coffman, and pianists Alyssa Arrigo and Jennifer McCabe. The concert features music of Ritika Bhattacharjee, Ashley Eyre, Pauline Viardot Garcia, Liza Lehmann, Dodie Morris, set to words of rachel e. morris, Christine Steyer, Sara Teasdale and others. Set to a backdrop of images by…
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Jul 17, 2025 – Jul 18, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Join our cast of 34 Fairies and Elves, Queens and Sorcerers for the Chicago premiere of Pauline Viardot Garcia’s Le dernier sorcier (The Last Sorcerer) and Other Magical WorksCo-produced by Working In Concert and Chamber Opera Chicago Carl Ratner & Christine Steyer, directorsPaul Geiger…
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Apr 11, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Carl Ratner and Christine Steyer join pianist Dana Brown for a classical date “From Chicago to Paris with Love” at Davenport’s Cabaret
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Mar 8, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Come Celebrate Women in the Arts! Join us for our fourth annual International Women’s Day concert extravaganza on Saturday, March 8 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Doors open at 7 pm. Stay for the afterglow reception with the artists. Bellissima’s IWD 2025 Concert features an…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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