Between the Lines features guest experts sharing their insights on each play in a pre-show discussion, then joining the audience once again after the play for a post-show question and answer session. This very popular and unique series will be offered twice per play, once on a Wednesday evening, and once on a Saturday matinee.

 

Dates for the 08/09 speakers are as follows:

 

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Sat. 12/6 at 1:30 pm - Sarah C. Maza, History Professor, Northwestern University

Wed. 12/10 at 6:30 pm - Roger Pines, Dramaturg, Lyric Opera

 

Sarah C. Maza (PhD Princeton, 1978) specializes in the social and cultural history of eighteenth and nineteenth century France. She has published three books, Servants and Master in Eighteenth-Century France (1983), Private Lives and Public Affairs: the Causes Celebres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993), which won the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, and The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 (2003) winner of the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Also interested in issues of historical methodology, she has coedited the Blackwell Companion to Western Historical Thought and published articles about cultural history, history and literature, and interdisciplinarity.

Roger Pines is dramaturg at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he also serves as lecturer and consultant to the Ryan Opera Center (the company’s young-artist program). He came to Chicago having previously held positions at San Diego Opera, The Dallas Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. Mr. Pines’s writing includes numerous articles and reviews for leading American and European publications, including The Times (London), Opera News, Opera, and International Record Review, as well as programs of major opera companies. His program notes have appeared in CD booklets for the Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Erato, and RCA/BMG labels. As a lecturer, Mr. Pines has been associated with major arts organizations in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Diego, as well as numerous opera-related conferences and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Courses on Verdi operas and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville prepared by Mr. Pines have been presented online by OPERA America, to whose publications he has long been a regular contributor.

OLD TIMES
Sat. 5/9 at 1:30 pm - TBD

Wed. 5/20 at 6:30 pm - TBD

The $10 ticket includes the pre-show event. Tickets for the performance are purchased separately. All tickets available through the box office at 773-40-GREEN (404-7336).