In the Wings - August 2026

Oops, I blinked and it's August - hope you've been enjoying Summertime Chi. This month, Chicago City Opera offers an interesting Mozart double bill, in either indoor or outdoor flavors.

The Impresario and Bastien and Bastienne
Chicago City Opera

August 14, 15 – 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum (Outdoor)
5800 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660

August 16 - 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Fulton Street Collective (Indoor)
6273, 1821 W Hubbard St Unit 307, Chicago, IL 60622

Chicago City Opera (CCO) presents an evening of two one-act Mozart operas, The Impresario and Bastien and Bastienne, combined into an overarching farce channeling the theatrical meta-comedies like Noises Off and The Play That Goes Wrong. When baritone-turned-director Oscar Buff decides to start his own opera company to put on a production of Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne (starring himself, of course), he runs into one small problem: 900 sopranos have applied to audition, but not a single tenor! After the sopranos vie for supremacy and an unwitting tenor is secured, the troupe is set, but during opening night of the production, things mysteriously begin to go very, very wrong. In case of inclement weather, the outdoor performances will move inside the May Chapel at Rosehill Cemetery. The show is presented in English and runs 75 minutes with no intermission. General admission tickets are $30 with preferred seating for $40 and select VIP tickets for $100.

Stay cool, stay safe out there, folks. The '26-'27 season is just around the corner, so keep an eye out for season and show announcements from the organizations in the scene. But for now - see you at the opera.

Photo by Christopher Alvarenga on Unsplash
Bird by Lee Mette from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
Storefront Opera Chicago logo by Ross Matsuda