Enrique Mazzola extends contract as music director of Lyric Opera of Chicago through 2030-31
CHICAGO (AP) — Enrique Mazzola extended his contract as music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago through 2030-31, the company said Tuesday as it announced a 2024-25 season that opens with him conducting Verdi’s “Rigoletto” on Sept. 24.A pair of contemporary works highlight the season, Jeanine Tesori’s “Blue” starting Nov. 16 and Missy Mazzoli’s “The Listeners” beginning March 30, 2025. The six productions match the number in 2023-24. Mazzola, 55, succeeded Andrew Davis with a five-year contract in 2021-22. He also will conduct Beethoven’s “Fidelio” starting Sept. 26 and “The Listeners.”The company has not yet announced a successor to general director Anthony Freud, who said last fall he will retire at the end of 2023-24, his 13th season.“Blue” premiered at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, on July 14, 2019. Kenneth Kellogg returns from the first cast in an opera about a Black police officer whose son is killed by a white police officer. Tazewell Thompson, who wrote the libretto, directs the production…
12 Mar 18:04 · iNFOnews.ca