M.L. Rantala is a journalist based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in covering local arts and culture. With a focus on classical music and the performing arts, M.L. brings insightful and engaging coverage of events and performances in the Hyde Park area.
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By: M.L. Rantala
Evanston native Matthew Polenzani had the audience held rapt last week in a song recital at Ravinia. The tenor joined forces with pianist Kevin Murphy last Tuesday for an evening
Tenor Jeffrey Burish (far left) was a moving soloist in the Gospel Mass by Robert Ray. This was one of over a dozen musical numbers in the concert, “Plain-Chant for America: Affirmations for Freedom and Justice” at University Church, 5655 S. University Ave., on August 18, 2024.
A scene from Act I of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” which continues at Lyric Opera of Chicago through Oct. 6.
By: M.L. Rantala
“Once in a while a man comes along who writes a book that has his own heart-beats in it. The people whose faces look out from the pages of the
Violinist Benjamin Beilman performs Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by guest conductor Andrés Orozco-Beilman for the opening of the CSO season on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.
Pianist and composer Amy Wurtz gave a piano recital at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago on October 11, 2024.
The brass section of the Newberry Consort, featuring cornetto and sackbuts. The early music ensemble opened their new season at the Hyde Park Unitarian Church, 5650 S. Woodlawn Ave., on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
By: Anne Ryan
(Left to right) Conductor Riccardo Muti greets pianist Mitsuko Uchida with a kiss of her hand before they perform Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024.
By: M.L. Rantala
“The Marriage of Figaro” is one of the world’s most popular operas, regularly drawing in audiences both new and already-devoted to Mozart’s magic. On Saturday night, Lyric Opera of Chicago
“Blue,” the opera by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson, was to be part of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019–20 season, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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