Performances of 42nd Street and Blue Moved into Future Seasons
Anthony Freud, the company's general director, said in a statement that all public performances, events and activities remaining in the 2019-20 season have been successfully moved into future seasons, including performances of 42nd Street and the chamber opera Blue.
The company will now present the new-to-Chicago production of 42nd Street, which was originally scheduled to run from May 29 through June 21, in the spring of Lyric Opera's 2021-22 season. The midwest premiere of composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson's Blue, originally scheduled to play from June 16-28 at the Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, will now take place in January 2021, and will be conducted by Lyric's music director designate Enrique Mazzola. The Chicago premiere of Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up will also be presented in a later season.
Last month, the company announced that it had been forced to cancel its first slated presentations of its complete Ring Cycle in response to the pandemic. The company's full Ring, scheduled to begin on Monday, April 13 with performances running through May 3, was to have taken the Lyric Opera House stage in David Pountney's stagings of the tetralogy under the baton of music director Sir Andrew Davis. According to the company, rehearsals for the performances had been ongoing since mid-February.
"The health, safety and security of our audiences, artists, and employees is our highest priority," said Freud in a statement released at the time. "While this decision is very difficult, there was no other option." The company reportedly hopes to identify a future opportunity to present its new production of Götterdämmerung and the complete cycles.
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