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Opera confidential: Graeme Kay gives you a flavor of some of our favorite U.S. opera companies--their audiences, golden moments, proteges, favorite bars and restaurants, biggest scandals and best company anecdotes.(included are Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cincinnati Opera, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Tulsa Opera)
CHICAGO
The biggest pleasure I get is when I take my grandson, my daughter or just an acquaintance to the opera. To me, that's what it's all about--spreading it around. I just love to sit there and be surrounded by all that greatness. It's really a treat, a great part of my life.
--Retired Chicago fireman Paul Goralka
Everything's bigger in Chicago, and money talks. Resold returns from LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO's 35,000-plus subscribers, and twenty-two different series, meant 100 percent-plus sales for fifteen successive seasons, till post-9/11 jitters knocked the tally back to a mere 97 percent. The most famous Lyric scion is "I'm not tough, I'm ...
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