An early exit interview —and duet— with Chicago Opera Theater’s Brian Dickie
By Mark BazerAn early exit interview —and duet— with Chicago Opera Theater’s Brian Dickie
By Mark BazerI don’t know much about opera, but I love it. And I owe that love almost entirely to Brian Dickie and the Chicago Opera Theater. Dickie, the general director of the COT, is charming, passionate and funny. I don’t like to think too much about the fact that this is his last season here.
Here’s a conversation I had with Dickie, plus a wonderful duet from the COT’s first production of the season, Moscow Cheryomushki, Dmitri Shostakovich’s satire about a young couple trying to navigate the absurdities of housing in the Soviet Union. It premieres this Saturday at the Harris Theater.
My in-laws, who grew up in the Soviet Union, in Soviet-era housing, will be there, and afterward they’ll be happy to separate fact from fiction if you buy them a drink.