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Article: Lyric learns lesson too late for '88-'90 // New works win box-office battle
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 31, 1988
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The 33rd season of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which will end
Saturday, was "a blockbuster," in the words of general manager Ardis
Krainik.
"We set a standard of one success after another that will be
difficult to surpass," she said. "And works like Glass's `Satyagraha'
and Berg's `Lulu' taught us a great deal."
Producing opera, like politics, is the art of the possible.
Rarely does a season represent the ideal realization of a
management's desires. Unfortunately, opera managers must plan three
years or more ahead, which means the next two Lyric seasons were
largely in place before the present one opened. Pessimism ruled.
The expectations were that the Philip Glass and the Alban Berg ...