Music Director Sir Andrew Davis marks 25th anniversary with Lyric

For Immediate Release:
November 14, 2012

 

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Music Director Sir Andrew Davis
 marks 25th anniversary with the company this evening,
 Wednesday, November 14, 2012, at the podium in his adopted city,
 conducting Massenet’s Werther  

The program for tonight’s performance includes the following insert:

  This evening we celebrate the 25th anniversary
 of Sir Andrew Davis’s Lyric Opera debut
 ( Le nozze di Figaro, November 14, 1987).

All of us at Lyric offer Sir Andrew our enormous appreciation,
 gratitude, and affection on this auspicious occasion.

SIR ANDREW DAVIS
 AT LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

1987/88 Le nozze di Figaro  2006/07 Salome, Così fan tutte,
Turandot, Dialogues des Carmélites
       
1989/90  La clemenza di Tito   2007/08 La traviata, La bohème,
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Falstaff,
Eugene Onegin
       
1991/92  Le nozze di Figaro       2008/09   Lulu, Madama Butterfly,
Tristan und Isolde, Die Entführung
aus dem Serail
       
1994/95   Capriccio   2009/10  Tosca, Faust, La damnation de Faust,
Le nozze di Figaro
       
2000/01  The Queen of Spades, Jenůfa, 
Der fliegende Holländer		 2010/11 The Mikado, La fanciulla del West,
Lohengrin 
       
2002/03 Die Walküre, Thaïs,
La traviata 		 2011/12 Boris Godunov, Ariadne auf Naxos,
Die Zauberflöte
       
2003/04  Le nozze di Figaro, Siegfried,
The Pirates of Penzance  		 2012/13  Elektra, Simon Boccanegra,
Werther
       
2004/05 Don Giovanni, Das Rheingold,
Aida, The Cunning Little Vixen,
Götterdämmerung, Ring cycle		    
       
2005/06 Carmen, The Midsummer
Marriage, Die Zauberflöte, Der Rosenkavalier 		   


Since his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut 25 years ago, as of Nov. 14 Sir Andrew Davis has conducted 483 performances of 46 operas by 17 composers at Lyric Opera of Chicago, including six company premieres. He also played organ in a 2008-09 Subscriber Appreciation Concert that featured the Lyric Opera Chorus.