THE HAYMARKET OPERA COMPANY NFP
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Mission Statement
Haymarket Opera Company inspires a culturally vibrant community and diversifies the artistic landscape of Chicago and the Midwest through the presentation of historically informed opera and oratorio from the Age of Enlightenment.
About This Cause
Haymarket Opera Company takes its name from both Chicago’s Haymarket Affair of 1886 which gave focus to the world-wide labor movement, and from the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket District of London where Handel produced his Italian operas. For over ten years Haymarket Opera Company has enriched the musical community of Chicago and the Midwest with critically acclaimed performances of 17th- and 18th-century operas and oratorios using period instruments and historically informed staging conventions. It has produced more than twenty operatic productions and numerous concert performances. The company has received glowing reviews in the Chicago Tribune, Italy’s L’Opera, Opera News, Early Music America, and more. The New York Times praised Haymarket’s “finely played, carefully sung, lovingly detailed period performance.” During the recent shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Haymarket attracted national attention by offering audiences a complete season of filmed performances that reached more than 800,000 households. Alongside established cultural institutions including the Chicago Symphony and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Haymarket was listed as “Chicago’s finest operatic event of 2021” by the Chicago Classical Review, and in the “Top 10 of 2021 for Classical Music, Jazz, and Opera” by the Chicago Tribune. In 2020, the company debuted on WFMT’s historic Saturday Opera Radio Broadcast series alongside top opera companies around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera House, Glyndebourne, Santa Fe Opera, and others. In 2023 Haymarket will release the first-ever complete recording of L’Amant anonyme, the only extant opera by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges’, in collaboration with Chicago’s premier classical record label, Cedille Records. Alongside established cultural institutions including the Chicago Symphony and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Haymarket Opera Company was listed as one of the Chicago Sun Times’s “Ten Best of the Decade” and the Chicago Tribune’s “Ten Best of 2019.”