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Calling all music lovers!  ACO’s Elijah, the company’s largest undertaking to date, has one remaining performance!

Come join us on April 28, 2012 at 7:30 pm.  We will be located at:

Trinity Episcopal Church

425 Laurel Avenue

Highland Park, IL 60035

Church Office: (847) 432-6653

Online Ticket Purchase:  http://americanchamberopera.org/trinity-episcopal-april-28/

Please feel free to use the discount code “ACO2012” to receive a $10 discount on tickets purchased online!

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Prepare thyselves, music lovers!  ACO is recording its updated version of Mendelssohn’s Elijah for your iTunes purchasing pleasure!

Our usual rehearsal studio is full to the brim with our gaggle of soloists and a highly talented, all-female quartet of string players, all of whom hail from local music universities.  Our CEO and collaborative pianist,  Jonathan Cambry, is handling the recording equipment and levels to assure the highest sound quality we can provide, while Deanna Tham’s meticulous conducting assures a cohesive and ...

THE FIRE DESCENDS FROM HEEEEEEAV’N!

ACO's "Elijah" performs April 19, 20, 22 and 28, 2012!

*poster courtesy of Jonathan Paul Cambry

REPENT, ye sinners, for the Lord our God is nigh!  Sounds terrifying, doesn’t it?  Our chorus of villagers shall cower accordingly.  The poster that our CEO and collaborative pianist, Jonathan Paul Cambry, designed certainly evokes the dark portent of Elijah’s damning ...

Hello, opera singers and goers alike!  I hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!  It’s been a chocolate-filled day here in the midwest, that’s for sure.

ACO’s rehearsals for Mendelssohn’s Elijah are well under way!  Here’s a charming shot of our lovely cast at the first rehearsal:

Smile! We're about to yell at Baal for a while!

This will be ACO’s first venture into oratorio, and what a ...

Now that our tropical excursion/performance-boot-camp trip to California is over, the American Chamber Opera is back in the rehearsal room!  We begin music rehearsals for Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” at the end of this week, and we’re all biting at the bit to get started!

But what, praytell, would our group be without a leader?  ACO would like to proudly announce that we have brought a friend and skilled conductor on board for future performances of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”

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…..Because the American Chamber Opera Company is in Dana Point, California!

Flying out only hours before a massive snowstorm in our home base of Chicago, IL, a portion of our artistic talent and administration graced the runway of LAX in the wee hours of the morning to take the west coast opera community by storm!  Most of us didn’t sleep.   But it was, without question, worth it.

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