https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/categories/chapter-22--the-opera/Recent content in Chapter 22 — The Opera on Chicago ChroniclesHugoen-usWed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/the-opera/Sat, 09 Feb 1991 17:28:00 +0000https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/posts/the-opera/<p><em><a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/locations/auditorium-theatre/">Auditorium Theatre</a> (East Congress Parkway) / Pilsen streets / Kaspar &amp; Sons (basement) / Sanitary and Ship Canal</em></p> <p><em>Chicago, Illinois</em></p> <hr> <p>The Auditorium Theatre was <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/npcs/sullivan-dane/">Sullivan</a> and Adler&rsquo;s argument that democracy could sound like church. Four thousand seats under a vault of stenciled gold leaf, the proscenium curved so a soprano in the third octave reached the back rail without amplification. Tonight it was Verdi. <em>Nabucco</em>. Hebrew slaves singing about a home they would never see again. Tickets came from <a href="https://chicago-by-night.pages.dev/npcs/critias/">Critias</a>&rsquo;s box and the protocol of acceptance was simple: arrive separately, sit where assigned, applaud at the appropriate intervals, leave the way a man leaves church.</p>