A Champion for Young Voices
Chicago Children’s Choir president and artistic director Josephine Lee ’07 MMus believes music can transcend barriers and elevate the boundless potential of young people.
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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