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Brian Dickie--Life as General Director of Chicago Opera Theater

http://briandickie.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Brian Dickie, General Director of Chicago Opera Theater, writes about his daily life as head of Chicago Opera Theater, as well as his travels around the world auditioning singers.

• Added on: Jun 5th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Colleen Flanigan
• Listed in: Artists Music
• Tags: performing arts classical music opera chicago arts artistic directors arts administrators

Recent Posts

• Sunday morning

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 06:27

  I am on my flight home from Philadelphia - and it is one of those with Internet access on it.  I had a bad night - a wedding party in the hotel woke me up, or rather a couple of drunken guests yelling at each other, and worse, in the room next ...

• Reflections on the Met auditions

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 21:04

  As I reported in the posting below we finished a long and immensely enjoyable day here in Philadelphia at around 6.30 this evening.So what were the important factors you may ask?  I guess the first thing to be admitted is that, between them, Cu...

• Philly District Met auditions

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 17:52

  We have just finished a long and immensely enjoyable day here - we have heard the singers, made our decisions, announced the "winners", and done feedback.  It is now 6.45 and I am famished.  So I am off to dinner and will do a r...

• Two days in the Commonwealth

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 22:18

  It is particularly good to be back in Philadelphia, the heart of the United States it could legitimately be said.  It is the city of Brotherly Love, it is the birthplace of America. It has been a long day here, not helped by huge Internet probl...

• Lovely Lehar

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 21:41

  It is good to have a dose of Lehar from time to time.  And The Merry Widow, however hackneyed the title, has an uncanny ability to delight.  The miraculous Act 2, with its extraordinary sequence of what I can only call heavily perfumed an...

• A somewhat productive day

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 22:12

  As my regular readers are aware, I have spent a great deal of time during the last weeks getting to know the best of the new young things.  And today was the first sorting out session.  We decided who we want and need for the few gaps lef...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Sharon E. Williams

Even if one is not familiar with opera, this blog can be appreciated for its passion - passion about music, Chicago and life. The photos are wonderful. Don't miss this blog.

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