In a bit of timely musical excavation, Chicago Opera Theater presented the centuries-belated American premiere of Paër’s Leonora Tuesday night at the Studebaker Theater, conducted by Dame Jane Glover.
It was the meeting placing for such legendary names as Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway and Charlie Chaplin and it was there that its signature cocktail, the Bellini (made with Prosecco and peach as ...