Lyric Opera's New Season

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2012-2013 season opens October 7 with Richard Strauss's Elektra.  Recordings, DVDs, scores, and librettos for Elektra and other operas of the coming season are listed in our Bibliocommons catalog under Staff Picks and on our web site's Lyric Opera Resources page.

The Lyric 2012/13 Season Companion is also available in the library's collection.  It includes stories and histories of the operas, information on the composers and librettists, and notes about the Lyric's production of each opera.

Articles and audio previews for each opera are available at the Lyric Opera of Chicago's web site: http://www.lyricopera.org/. (Select Season + Tickets, and then the individual opera.)

Here are the operas for the season.  Can you match them up with with the one-phrase plot summaries taken from the Lyric's season brochure?

1. Elektra (Strauss)                                       a. “A father’s worst nightmare”  

2. Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)                          b. “The big sing” 

3. Werther (Massenet)                                  c. “Here, kiddie, kiddie”

4. Don Pasquale (Donizetti)                           d. “Before Mommie Dearest there was…”

5. Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)               e. “Stell-ahhhhh!”

6. La Boheme (Puccini)                                  f. “Older man marries younger woman

                                                                      and boy, is he sorry!”

7. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Wagner)    g. “Who said being in charge was easy?”

8. Rigoletto (Verdi )                                      h. “In the end he just can’t take it anymore.”

9. A Streetcar Named Desire (Previn)               i. “Oh, to be young and in love in Paris.”

Answers:  1.d.; 2.g.; 3.h.; 4.f.; 5.c.; 6.i.; 7.b.; 8.a.; 9.e.