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L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O
14 | January 28 - February 24, 2017
For the first time in the Lyric program, we’ve given the Lyric audience
a chance to reveal what draws them to opera in general, and to Lyric in
particular. If you’d like to contribute to the series, send your comments to:
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Why I Love Opera …
and Why I Love Lyric
PART 3 Edited by Roger Pines
Lyric Reflects Life
Lyric becomes part of your life. Sharing with friends and family
for years enhances your enjoyment. For many years I have
attended Lyric with my friend Caroline Uhlig. She would order
our tickets and last year got an aisle seat for my two new knees.
Even though she was dying of cancer last year, she ordered our
seats for the season. I was not sure we would be together the
whole season. Somewhat like the tragic opera themes. She was
a determined opera lover.
We were nearing the last operas and I could see she was
having difficulty. After one opera each year we would eat in the
Opera café. We chose to do this after
Romeo and Juliet. It was
a lovely dinner with a champagne toast.
There was one opera left, Der Rosenkavalier. I found out
that I was going to be out of town. She had wanted to take her
granddaughter, so I gave her my ticket.
They had a lovely time at the opera. At her funeral one month
later, her granddaughter thanked me for the ticket.
By the way, she had ordered the next season’s tickets!
Lynn Sove Maxson
(Des Plaines)
Top photo: Lynn Sove Maxson (left) with her late friend
and operagoing companion, Caroline Uhlig, dining at Lyric.
Bottom photo: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Koch, and
Amanda Majeski bowing after the final scene of Der Rosenkavalier,
the last opera Uhlig heard at Lyric.
CORY WEAVER
ROBERT KUSEL