Daily Archives: July 6, 2021

A CHICAGO OPERA  CENTENNIAL

With the approach of the 2020-2021 opera season, we commemorate the centenary of the Chicago Opera Association[i]’s world premiere of Sergei Prokofiev[ii]’s For the Love of Three Oranges, December 30, 1921. The opera, ahead of its time, to say the least, had a rocky road to its opening. PROKOFIEV ARRIVES AND COMPOSES Harold McCormick (1872-1941), […]