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WFMT's Operas this month include Verdi's Il Corsaro, Oct 15 at 1pm

https://operafestivalchicago.org/event/verdi-il-corsaro/

Verdi’s bombastic 1848 opera plunges us into the dashing world of seafaring pirates.

10/1 Lehár:  The Merry Widow (in German) (China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts)
CAST:
Hanna Glawari Song Yuanming
Count Danilo Danilovitsch Thomas Laske
Valencienne Sarah Zhai Strauss
Camille de Rosillon Shi Yijie

10/8 Hao Weiya: A Village Teacher (in Mandarin) (China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts)
CAST:
Yang Caihong Zhou Xiaolin
Zhou Luoping Wang Hexiang
Li Wenguang Kou Jing
Meng Qiuxia Zhang Wenqin
Lin Xifeng Wang Lei
Zhou Wushan Guan Zhijing

10/15 Verdi: Il Corsaro (in Italian) (Opera Festival of Chicago)
CAST:
Corrado Jose Simerilla Romero
Medora Christine Arand
Seid Franco Pomponi
Gulnara Alejandra Sandoval
Giovanni Frank De Vincentis
The Eunuch Benjamin Burney
Aga Selimo André De Mesquita

10/22 Rossini: L’Inganno Felice (in Italian) (Opera Festival of Chicago)
CAST:
Duke Bertrando Kenneth Tarver
Isabella Katherine Beck
Ormondo Frank DeVincentis
Tarabotto Alexander Adams-Leytes
Batone Matthew Ciuffitelli

10/29 Verdi: Aida (in Italian) (LA Opera)
CAST:
Aida Latonia Moore
Amneris Melody Moore
Radames Russell Thomas
Amonasro George Gagnidze
Ramfis Morris Robinson
Priestess Alaysha Fox
King of Egypt Peixin Chen
Messenger Anthony Ciaramitaro