Calling on My Sisters
Sarah Wills Carlsson collaborated with fellow alums to publish the ’ittle Bear children’s book series. The books, which follow a stuffed animal who travels the world, aim to increase cultural education.
Gear Shift
Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress ran at Cahn Auditorium last winter.
Scene from a production of "A Rake's Progress" at Cahn Auditorium last winterImage: © Todd Rosenberg 2019
The fantastical set and projection design stole the show in the Northwestern University Opera Theater adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress. The work was inspired by a series of William Hogarth paintings and engravings that Stravinsky viewed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947. Directed by Joachim Schamberger, Northwestern’s director of opera, the show ran at Cahn Auditorium in the winter.
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