When I looked at my mail this evening much to my surprise Lyric Opera of Chicago had already sent out their subscription notices for the 2005-2006 season. There’s still more than a month to go on the 2004-2005 season. That’s pretty greedy for our $1,000+ subscriptions (each), isn’t it?
Here’s what we’re looking forward to next season (and I do mean looking forward to):
- Bizet’s Carmen
- Rossini’s La Cenerentola
- Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (which we haven’t seen in ages at Lyric)
- Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage (I’m unfamiliar with it)
- Mozart’s The Magic Flute (probably my favorite opera)
- Verdi’s Rigoletto
- Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier(Hurray! It’s been years since
we’ve seen this) - Glück’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Now that’s what the 50th anniversary season (which we’re just finishing) should have looked like. I can hardly wait until fall.
