![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters in Search of an Author (1956), with a libretto by the Irish playwright Denis Johnston, showed itself, in the National Public Radio broadcast several months later of the Chicago performances, to be a masterpiece of American opera. This event went almost unheralded it was only noticed locally, and (save for an enthusiastic review by The New Yorker's Andrew Porter) it was ignored afterward by a national press interested on the one hand in star singers and on the other in the latest "cutting-edge" atrocities. Lyric Opera Center for American Artists Members of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, Lee SchaenenĪ momentous event in American opera-and the vibrant performance enshrined on these discs-took place in Chicago at the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists (the junior company of the Lyric Opera of Chicago) in 1990. ![]()
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