Being the best form of performing arts, opera demands various musicians and singers to perform a dramatic work that combines text and musical score. It incorporates a lot of elements of spoken theatre, including the scenery, acting, and costumes. With music and drama as the fundamental ingredients, opera is the perfect art of staging and costume design, and thus a visual as well as an audible art. It’s the power of music, particularly which is written for the several registers of the human singing voice best suits the expression of emotion and the portrayal of character.

You never know when opera becomes your life and stays as part of your life long after it is over. is the consummate art of music and theater, combining solo and choral singing, declamation, acting, dancing and performance of an orchestra into the pinnacle of beauty.

Are you a huge opera fan? Are you missing the live opera performance amid Covid-19 pandemic? Here is good news for you. Get a chance to enjoy the free streaming of a virtual opera Alcina directly broadcasted from Chicago Summer Opera on 18th and 19th July. Enjoy the beautiful scenery sets, costumes, and lighting just at the comfort of your couch at 7:30 pm on 18th July and 2:00 pm on 19th July.

Conducted by Codrut Birsan and directed by Helen Park, this virtual opera features performing works by Handel and other cast members including Carlos Tello and Nathan Jensen. You all are invited online to attend Alcina and love the combination of dramatic narrative, stagecraft and music.

About Chicago Summer Opera

Always aimed at helping the young artists fine-tune their unique skills, Chicago Summer Opera provides affordable training to the developing singers while providing accessible and high quality performance to the community. It is a non-profit organization that works with a mission to provide world class training to the gifted artists and offer accessible high quality performances to the community. It also offers training in role preparation, vocal technique, dramatic preparation, audition technique, and stage movement.