25 Mar 2007

Chicago Opera Theater springs forward

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/classical/311754,SHO-Sunday-cot25.article

Mariele Lenormand(Photo: Lisa Kohler)
Company on a roll as it begins season with 'Return of Ulysses'

BY LAURA EMERICK [Chicago Sun-Times, 25 March 2007]

When composer John Adams deliberated over where the first fully staged U.S. version of "A Flowering Tree," his latest opera, would truly blossom, the usual prospects didn't arise.