Chicago Opera Theater Presents Their 2nd Annual OPERA CRUISE 8/12

On Thursday, August 12 Chicago Opera Theater (COT) will set sail on Lake Michigan to celebrate a memorable evening of opera on its second annual Opera Cruise. The cruise will feature a short performance by soprano Nancy Gustafson and baritone Paul La Rosa.

"I am thrilled to set sail again on beautiful Lake Michigan for a second straight year with our COT friends and family," said General Director Brian Dickie. "Last year was a remarkable success, and we hope to raise even more money for COT this year."

The voyage will begin at 6pm (boarding begins at 5:30pm) with hors d'oeuvres and an open bar including wine, beer, and COT's Signature Cocktail, the "Operatini". In addition, there will be a raffle featuring prizes of a studio suite at Hotel Sax, a three month membership to Equinox, a wine tasting party for ten people at Tasting deVine Cellars, plus much more!

The highlight of the evening will be a short concert by international opera star Nancy Gustafson, singing with Paul La Rosa, member of Lyric Opera's esteemed Ryan Opera Center. Ms. Gustafson's engagements in America have included the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In Europe she has performed in Vienna and Munich, at La Scala, Milan, and London's Covent Garden, and appeared in Hamburg, Geneva, Rome, Turin, and Berlin, and at the Bastille Opera in Paris. She received rave reviews in Chicago Opera Theater's production of Erwartung in 2007. Mr. La Rosa made his debut in 2009 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Kuligin in Kát'a Kabanová and also sang Cascada in The Merry Widow.

The Opera Cruise will continue with dancing under the stars and over Lake Michigan until the boat docks at 8pm.

What: "High Cs on the High Seas" - 2nd Annual Opera Cruise on Lake Michigan
When: Thursday August 12, 2010, 5:30-8:00pm

Where: Boat leaves at 6:00pm from Navy Pier on Kanan Cruises (boarding begins at 5:30pm)
Click here for directions.

Cost:
$85 per person includes concert, dancing, hors-d'oeuvres and open bar
$100 per person includes all of the above plus 3 raffle tickets. (Raffle tickets will also be sold on boat: 3 for $20)
$60 per person is the discounted Opera Underground ticket for young persons aged 21-45 (ID required).

Tickets: 312.704.8414 or ChicagoOperaTheater.org

Chicago Opera Theater's Opera Cruise is generously sponsored by New Amsterdam Straight Gin, Alamos: The Wines of Catena, Goose Island, and William Hill Estate Winery.

ABOUT CHICAGO OPERA THEATER

Founded in 1974 by Alan Stone, Chicago Opera Theater has carved a significant place for itself in the operatic life of Chicago and has reached an audience of hundreds of thousands through its main stage performances, outreach, education and young artist programs.

Since Brian Dickie's appointment as General Director in 1999, COT has evolved as an opera company that is young, fresh, and colorful - an image well suited to its surroundings at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

Chicago Opera Theater's 2011 Spring Festival Season opens at the Harris Theater on April 3 and runs through May 13, 2011. The Season includes Tod Machover's Death and The Powers, Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea, and a double bill song cycle called He/She which includes Janá?ek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life).

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