We’ll have to wait until sometime this summer to get the video stream Lyric Opera’s promising of last weekend’s performance of the garage opera, Twilight: Gods. Like a picnic version of a gourmet meal, that event was more about the environment than the opera, so it’ll be interesting to see how well it works onscreen.
Also free and worth finding online: Chicago Fringe Opera‘s “A City of Works”—a series of “site-specific micro-operas,” all by different composers. They’re being released episodically, with four episodes available now. To get the full experience, you can do the scavenger hunt thing, getting yourself to a series of specific locations around the city and scanning a code on your smartphone at each to call up a music video of a newly-commissioned five-minute-or-so work inspired by and filmed at that very spot (Hyde Park, Promontory Point, Edgewater, and Lincoln Square so far). Or, if that strikes you as a trifle inconvenient, there’s this option: just stretch out on the couch with your mobile device and let your fingers go to chicagofringeopera.com.
