production Opera in Focus is a troupe which performs opera and musical theater with some of the world's most sophisticated puppets. The Opera in Focus puppet...
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The Second City (category Theatre in Chicago)
sitting in a wheelchair only "for respect," operates a bizarre and humorously incompetent range of cheap local programming. The range included soap opera "The...
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backgrounds, custom Opera logos, etc. In 2025, Opera released Opera Air, a more lightweight version of the browser designed with a focus on mindfulness and...
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Fitting in with these characteristics, most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, or focus on a large...
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Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation...
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Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) (Evanston) Neo-Futurists Oak Park Festival Theatre (Oak Park) Opera in Focus (Rolling Meadows) Paramount Theatre...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre...
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CIBC Theatre (category Theatres in Chicago)
Cantor and Fanny Brice. The American Opera Company presented six operas during its two week engagement at the Majestic in October 1929. Some of the greatest...
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space opera and planetary romance. Both feature adventures in exotic settings, but space opera emphasizes space travel, while planetary romances focus on...
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The Civic Opera House, also called Lyric Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The Civic's main performance space...
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Theatre in Jefferson Park. The Lyric Opera of Chicago, founded in 1954, performs in the Civic Opera House. The Civic Opera House was built in 1929 on...
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Joffrey Ballet (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during its annual performance season at the Civic Opera House...
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contains a 3,563-seat opera house, the Civic Opera House, which is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America. The opera house is the permanent...
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grand opera companies in Chicago, Illinois, have gone by the name Chicago Grand Opera Company during the first half of the 20th century. Like many opera ventures...
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Ravinia Festival (category Opera festivals in the United States)
its history. In the 1920s, it was known as the summer opera capital of the world due to businessman Louis Eckstein, who booked all-opera seasons and artists...
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audience, then they are called "guy cry" films. Often considered "soap-opera" drama. Focuses on religious characters, mystery play, beliefs, and respect. Character...
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The Chicago Opera House was a theater complex in Chicago, Illinois, designed by the architectural firm of Cobb and Frost. The Chicago Opera House building...
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The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated...
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Auditorium Theatre (category Concert halls in Illinois)
and its successors the Chicago Opera Association and Chicago Civic Opera until its relocation to the Civic Opera House in 1929. The theater was home to...
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Chicago Humanities Festival (category Festivals in Chicago)
of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the University of Chicago. In 1997, the Festival formally separated from the Illinois...
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in 2002 and ended in 2006. The reason for the show's cancellation was due to SOAPnet expanding its programming away from a soap opera-related focus....
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unheard in the United States, and a significant number of contemporary operas. This focus on distinctive repertoire, along with Caldwell's innovative stage...
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The Woodstock Opera House is a historical venue for performing arts and receptions located in Woodstock, Illinois. It was built in 1889 and designed as...
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H.M.S. Pinafore (category Operas set in the British Isles)
and absurdity. The opera's humour focuses on love between members of different social classes and lampoons the British class system in general. Pinafore...
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The Young and the Restless (redirect from Y&R (soap opera))
Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in the fictional Genoa City (named after...
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Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar...
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Crosby's Opera House (1865–1871) was an opera house in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded by Uranus H. Crosby in 1865 with the goal of advancing...
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Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian emigrants in 1956, and presents operas in Lithuanian. It celebrated fifty years of existence in 2006...
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The Chicago Opera Company was a grand opera company in Chicago, organized from the remaining assets of the bankrupt Chicago City Opera Company, that produced...
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Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...
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