As we enter the year 2019, we are regaled with the stories, history, and music featuring the operas being presented at the Lyric Opera of Chicago by members of The Opera Lovers Lecture Corps. Come join other opera lovers on Thursday evenings in the Multipurpose Room from
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm.
As a child, Elektra witnesses the murder of her father, King Agamemnon, by her mother, Queen Clyrtemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Elektra lives for the death of her mother at the hands of her brother Orestes. But he has been killed and Elektra seeks her revenge herself.
Violetta, a desirable Paris courtesan, is sought after by society's most important men, but she's wealthy and perfectly content with her carefree existence - until she meets Alfredo Germont. Alfredo's father pushes them apart, and although they are reunited in the end, it is much too late.
Medieval Scotland. Ginevra, daughter of the King, is in love and betrothed to Prince Ariodante. She rejects the amorous advances of the duke of Albany, Polinesso, who then cruelly tricks Ariodante and Ginevra's father into believing that Ginevra is unfaithful. Aridante attemps suicide and Ginevra is condemned, but after a challenge to a duel by Lucanio, Ariodante's brother, the dying Polinesso admits his plot and the lovers are reunited.
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