Sylvia McNair to Headline Chicago Opera Theater Gala
Grammy Award winner Sylvia McNair will headline Chicago Opera Theater’s 38th Anniversary Gala: A Celebration Less Ordinary, to be held on March 11 at Canivale.
McNair has performed her one-woman show Subject To Change at such venues as The Savoy Room at Sheldon Hall, The Colony in Palm Beach, and Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. Among her theater credits are Camelot and A Little Night Music. In addition, she has collaborated with such artists as Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, André Previn, and the late Robert Shaw. She has won Grammys for a recording of Handel’s Semele and for The Echoing Air: The Music of Henry Purcell.
In addition to the entertainment, the event will honor general director Brian Dickie on his final season with the company and feature the inaugural presentation of The Brian Dickie Outstanding Young Singer Award.
