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    Bienen School presents Chicago-area premiere of David T. Little's Dog Days

    October 31, 2019

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    The Northwestern Opera Theater and Institute for New Music production runs November 21 to 24.

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    Bienen School presents Chicago-area premiere of David T. Little's Dog Days

    October 31, 2019

    The Northwestern Opera Theater and Institute for New Music production runs November 21 to 24.

    Institute for New Music announces 2019-2020 season

    August 8, 2019

    The Institute for New Music at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music will present the Chicago premiere of David T. Little’s powerful contemporary opera “Dog Days,” Nov. 21 to 24 at the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. Bookending the Institute’s season is NUNC!

    Bienen School presents Berlioz’s ‘Béatrice et Bénédict’

    May 6, 2019

    The Bienen School of Music will present Berlioz’s “Béatrice et Bénédict” -- based on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” -- from May 23-26

    Bienen School presents Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’

    February 5, 2019

    Equal parts tragedy and farce, Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress” follows the moral decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, who exchanges a simple life with sweetheart Anne Truelove for the worldly pleasures of London in the company of the devious Nick Shadow.

    Schamberger Brings Modern Themes to Opera Stage

    October 5, 2018

    Northwestern University Opera Theater’s most recent season demonstrated the breadth of human emotion under the creative leadership of Joachim Schamberger, Bienen School director of opera.

    2018-19 opera season and vocal master classes announced

    September 27, 2018

    Under Joachim Schamberger’s direction, the 2018-19 opera lineup will include Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” and Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” with a third production to be announced for May 2019.

    Handel festival and opera highlight spring season at Bienen School of Music

    April 19, 2018

    George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) is the focus of the biennial Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival, hosted by Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, May 17 to 20 on the Evanston campus. The 2017/2018 Robert M. and Maya L.

    Schamberger uses modern technology to modernize Mozart’s Don Giovanni

    February 15, 2018

    Joachim Schamberger's production of Don Giovanni at Northwestern University uses modern technology with themes of sexual assault and consent, including the #metoo movement.

    Bienen School stages ‘Don Giovanni’

    February 7, 2018

    Northwestern Opera will present ‘Don Giovanni’ for the social media age and spotlight a rare Handel opera.

    2017-18 opera season and vocal master classes announced

    October 16, 2017

    The Bienen School announces the inaugural season for its new Artist-in-Residence and Director of Opera Joachim Schamberger.

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