General director Anthony Freud got a laugh at Friday night’s Stars of Lyric Opera performance at Millennium Park when he noted that, as usual, the Chicago weather was perfect.
Chicago Shakespeare’s Barbara Gaines is directing Figaro, and it’s a new production; it should be interesting to see what she’ll do with it. Friday’s concert version of the second act definitely whetted appetites for the fleshed-out show to come. Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka, in another Lyric debut, promises to be highly entertaining in the title role, and we’ll get to see (and hear) Amanda Majeski in something totally different from her dark triumph as Marta in last season’s The Passenger.
