Starting now, Chicago Voices is seeking proposals from amateur groups for stories arising from their neighborhoods. Love to sing? Got a story to tell through song? Eight to 12 friends who like to perform and want to develop that story with you? This is your chance. The two-year initiative consists of four generically labeled components, one of which will eventually allow people to upload a video selfie of their singing to the Chicago Voices website, . It’s anybody’s guess what might happen there.Īnother possible route to fame-and what looks like the most interesting piece of the Chicago Voices pie-is its Community Created Performances. Lyric general director Anthony Freud, Lyric Unlimited director Cayenne Harris, and Fleming did the talking. In an effort to do something about that, Lyric Opera put its jeans on (metaphorically, anyway) Thursday and headed to the Hideout to announce its new “Lyric Unlimited” outreach program, Chicago Voices.

Lyric Opera creative consultant and iconic soprano Renee Fleming said she was watching The Voice a few years ago when she realized that there’s a mass conversation going on around vocal performance and that “we’ve been left out of this mainstream dialogue.”

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