Article: High-Key High Jinks Parody Opera Singers

Who says classical music isn't funny?

Last month, at the annual concert showcasing members of Lyric Opera's Center for American Artists, three young baritones did a sendup of "The Three Tenors" that had their Civic Opera House audience laughing its collective head off.

On Feb. 5, Bach Week in Evanston offered an evening of musical spoofs at its annual fund-raiser. Among the highlights was "Sic Transit Gloria (CTA Transfer)," an appropriately churchly singing of the fine print on the back of a bus transfer by the Wolfgang.

This weekend, opera heroines will be the target of a skewering at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.

B. J. Ward, a singer-comedian with a four-octave range and an ...

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