Diane Paulus to Direct MAGIC FLUTE at Chicago Opera Theatre

As just announced by Chicago Opera Theater Diane Paulus is set to direct THE MAGIC FLUTE in September 2012. Also set for the 2011-12 season are MOSCOW, CHERYMUSHKI, MEDEA, HE/SHE, and more.

Paulus co-created The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream which ran off-Broadway from 1999 to 2005. In May 2008, Paulus was named the artistic director for the Harvard University American Repertory Theater. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of Hair. She has received the 2009 Harvard College Women's Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award.

Founded in 1974 by Alan Stone, Chicago Opera Theater (COT) has carved a significant place for itself in the operatic life of Chicago and has reached an audience of hundreds of thousands through its mainstage performances, community engagement, education programs in Chicago Public Schools, as well as its renowned Young Artist Program.

Since Brian Dickie's appointment as General Director in 1999, COT has evolved as an opera company that is young, fresh, and critically acclaimed. The Chicago Tribune says "Chicago Opera Theater is on a roll. The company's splendid, adventuresome shows continue to prove that the spirit of operatic adventure is alive and well at the Harris Theater." The Chicago Reader calls COT "Chicago's most interesting opera company."

Chicago Opera Theater's 2011 Spring Festival Season opens at the Harris Theater on April 2 and runs through May 8, 2011. The Season includes the Midwest premiere of Tod Machover's Death and The Powers; Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea; and the double bill song cycle "He/She" which features Janá?ek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life).

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