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Ticket sales for this event have been suspended. Following a decision by Northwestern University leadership by April 17, we will determine whether this event can still occur as scheduled.

The Phoenix declares, “Polenzani has perhaps the finest tenor voice of his generation, and he sang with aristocratic elegance and potency.” The tenor’s 2018-19 season included a return to Lyric Opera of Chicago in his signature title role of Mozart’s Idomeneo; his appearance as Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo; and his role debuts as Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at the Metropolitan Opera, and as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen at the San Francisco Opera. His 2019-20 engagements include Verdi’s Macbeth, Puccini’s La bohème, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera; Bizet’s Carmen at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper; Beethoven’s Fidelio and Missa Solemnis at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; and La traviata at the Teatro Real de Madrid.