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`Xerxes' Sparkles, Charms
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`Xerxes'
Lyric Opera of Chicago,
20 N. Wacker
Through Oct. 21
Limited ticket availability
(312) 332-2244
Yes, its running time is just shy of four hours.
Yes, its single hit tune comes 10 minutes into the first act.
Yes, its many arias and duets are a few lines of text endlessly
repeated.
No, the production of Handel's comic opera "Xerxes," which
Lyric Opera of Chicago unveiled Friday, is not a bore of a Baroque
opera. First seen at the English National Opera in 1985, it offers
one of the most charming, gently witty evenings audiences will have
ever spent in the Civic ...
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