Monthly Archives: March 2023

STARS BRIDGES AND CASTRONOVO POWER LYRIC’S CARMEN

An insignificant novel gave birth to Bizet’s great opera, Carmen, second only to Puccini’s La Boheme among the world’s most popular operas. The novelist Prosper Merimee’ introduces the famous heroine with these words; I heard some bystanders say, ‘Here comes the gitanella!’ Then I lifted up my eyes, and I saw her! It was that very Carmen you […]

The Storm Theatre Company Offers Charming Boucicault

On November 6, 1883 , The Chicago Tribune reported that the “laughter and applause” at last evening’s performance of The Shaughraun at McVicker’s Theater, poved that author and star Mr. Dion Boucicault “has lost none of his power to please.” The same may be said of  the current poduction of Boucicault’s rarely produced The Shaughraun. […]