Date and Time
Sunday Aug 10, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
Performances: Friday August 8, 2025 at 7 pm & Sunday August 10, 2025 at 2 pm
Location
Gorton Center, 400 E. Illinois Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Fees/Admission
Tickets: $30, General admission seating, available at the door or purchase online. To get your tickets now or for more information, please visit our website: chicagoconcertopera.com/tickets
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Contact Information
For more information about this production, please contact Artistic Director, Alvaro Ramirez at ARC@chicagoconcertopera.com or (847)421-4287.
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Description
Concert Opera of Greater Chicago is proud to announce its summer production of Gaetano Donizetti's bel canto masterpiece, La Favorita. An Italian opera in four acts to be performed in concert version with English supertitles. The COGC chorus and orchestra will be conducted by Maestro William Intriligator; Music Director and Conductor of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (IA) and the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra (WY). CAST: Leonora de Guzmán: Paula Schaefgen (Cary, IL), mezzo-soprano; Fernando: Alain Arvelo (Raleigh, NC) tenor; Alfonso XI: Aaron Wardell (Chicago, IL), baritone; Baldassarre: Alvaro Ramirez (Cary, IL), bass; Ines: Marilyn Maurer (Winfield, IL), soprano; Don Gasparo: Chris Jackson (West Dundee, IL), tenor Chorus: Samuel Curry (Chicago), Emily Thompson (Chicago), Jonathon Joseph Larson (Chicago), Ryan Morrison (Warrenville), Joshua Poucher (Chicago), Eric Butler (Chicago), Eunice Ayodele (Forest Park), Karen Buccola (Skokie), Sarah Rattana (Crystal Lake), William Ortega (Oak Park), John Tiffin (Skokie), Kathleen Tiffin (Skokie), Jennifer Reckamp (River Forest), Morgan Reckamp (River Forest), Alexandra Torchinskiy (Rogers Park), Colleen Ortega (Oak Park), Gina Frank (Lake Forest) Concert Opera of Greater Chicago is a local 501(c)(3) organization.
