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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Two people hold up a flute while singing.

Northwestern Opera Theater explores gender, yin and yang with ‘The Magic Flute’

February 20, 2023

Yin and yang. Masculine and feminine. The rise of patriarchy and how it could come to an end.  These are themes that Northwestern Opera Theater’s production of “The Magic Flute” will explore...

Lucy Evans and Nicholas Lin in “Orfeo Remote.” Despite looking like they’re together, the two performers shot the scene separately.

“Orfeo Remote” takes opera from the stage to the screen

October 12, 2020

As theaters around the world went dark in March, Bienen’s spring production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” was just ramping up. Performing the opera in Cahn Auditorium was no longer an...

The cast of “Die Fledermaus.” The operetta will open Thursday.

Bienen presents the classic opera “Die Fledermaus” with a modern twist

February 26, 2020

A&E When Aryssa Burrs took the stage for her first college opera, Johann Strass’ “Die Fledermaus,” as a freshman, she was a member of the chorus. Now, as a second-year Bienen master’s student,...

The cast of “Dog Days” in rehearsal. The modern opera follows a family struggling in the post-apocalyptic world.

David T. Little’s “Dog Days” brings a modern opera to Northwestern

November 20, 2019

Bienen Senior Morgan Mastrangelo sang in numerous operas at Northwestern. But in “Dog Days,” the latest opera opening in Ryan Opera Theater, he’s taking on his most challenging role yet: a character...

Performers in Northwestern’s “Don Giovanni” rehearse a scene. The production will be set in modern day New York and will incorporate technology and social media.

Joachim Schamberger uses modern technology and social media to modernize Mozart’s Don Giovanni

February 15, 2018

Bienen Prof. Joachim Schamberger has mixed feelings about the use of technology in the modern era. While he reminisces about the days when he could talk to unplugged fellow passengers when riding the...

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