
Tickets will go on sale August 6th for the in-person, socially distanced event as well as for virtual attendance via the livestream. Andrea Baker, Marnie Baylouny, and Hillary Esqueda (sopranos) Shannon Keegan, Marissa Simmons, and Josephine Stracek (mezzo-sopranos) Scott Bass (countertenor) Karlos Piñero-Mercado and Jonathan Weyant (tenors) and Austin Sanders and Jeremiah Strickler (baritones) will be joined by EChO’s phenomenal instrumentalists for this single performance of comedic and dramatic vocal chamber works and instrumental pieces by Lynch, featuring his “Voices at Domrémy,” a setting for soprano, mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, and string quartet of the one-act play, "Voices," written in 1916 by American poet and playwright Hortense Flexner (1885-1973).

Join the Evanston Chamber Opera Company (EChO) for a very special event of music by our resident composer, Francis Lynch, in honor of his 70th birthday. For more information and to purchase tickets click here.ONE NIGHT ONLY! (This is a ticketed event. The Washington Post called Proving Up “harrowing…powerful…a true opera of our time.” Join us for the anticipated Chicago premiere of this new chamber opera.Ĭhristian Sanders will be covering the role of Miles in this production. University Club of Chicago, 76 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603. A haunting, supernatural story of Nebraska homesteaders in the 1870s and their dream of “proving up” and obtaining the deed to the land they’ve settled, the opera draws us vividly into a world where the requirement of a single glass window can shatter the hopes and dreams of a family. 116 N Jefferson St, Chicago, IL 60661-2307 0.

In this gripping drama, acclaimed composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek explore whether regular, hardworking people are able to fulfill their destiny - and what happens when fate is cruel, and their dreams turn into nightmares. The American dream: the promise of a better life for those who work to achieve it.
