Bellissima Opera

  • 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

    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…

  • Oct 22, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Just in time for Halloween and World Opera Day, be inspired by masked balls of yore. Spend an exclusive evening with Bellissima Opera Artistic Director Christine Steyer, pianist Peter Storms, and 38 of your best new friends. Come unmask our 2023 season and upcoming commissioned…

  • Jun 23, 2022 – Jun 26, 2022 @ 12:00 am – TICKETS AND DETAILS at workinginconcert.org/futureperfect

  • May 28, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm – Support the Future Perfect Opera premiere through this delicious musical event on Saturday, May 28.

  • Mar 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm – — A Tribute to Women in the Arts by Women in the Arts Tickets NOW! Award-winning female singers are centerstage for our 2022 International Women’s Day (IWD) concert celebrating this year’s IWD theme, “Break the Bias.” The concert is presented by Good Shepherd Lutheran Church…

  • Women Hold Up Half The Sky

    Jan 16, 2022 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Christine Steyer and Peter Storms: Women Hold Up Half The Sky, Oak Park Church of Beethoven, Oak Park, presents Women Hold Up Half the Sky, a recital with soprano Christine Steyer, with collaborative pianist Peter Storms. Sunday, January 16th – 3:00pm Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 611…

  • Nov 28, 2021 – Feb 28, 2022 @ 12:00 am – LEARN MORE or SIGN IN to WATCH NOW We are bringing our acclaimed online opera in thanks to health care workers who have been on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19. We’re especially please to have Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73…

  • Jun 8, 2021 – Jun 15, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – “Extraordinary! Compelling! Powerful and preeminently useful. In 59 minutes, this opera has endless possibilities and it will retain them even as COVID passes on.” “This opera has made me proud of the role that the arts play in this world, and that this is…

  • Apr 17, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Tickets are now on sale: workinginconcert.org/covidopera A donation of $10 or more brings you to the Stage-Door to meet the artists in a Zoom room following the performance. The Bellissima Opera Cast Gwendolyn Brown, contralto: Chicago health care worker “Sandra Jazmond Walker” Jeong Eun Joo, soprano: Seoul health…

  • Dec 22, 2020 @ 7:30 pm – 8:15 pm – Soprano Christine Steyer and singer-pianist Jean-Claude Orfali Guests: Paul Geiger and Huckleberry (as Rudolph the Reindeer) A livestream concert. Free admission. Register at this Zoom link for the second showing! Donations to the “tip jar” are most welcome.  

  • A Sweet Spot between our Worlds

    May 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – Working in Concert presents —a concert celebrating the Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion, Christine Steyer, soprano and Jean-Claude Orfali pianist (of Cabaret Lapin Agile), guest soprano Claudia Hommel and percussionist Don Skoog. PianoForte Chicago, 1335 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago