Chicago Opera Theater & Refugee Orchestra Project

August 29, 30: 1pm and 3pm

Chicago Opera Theater and Refugee Orchestra Project join forces for Voices of Refuge, an open-air chamber concert at Chicago History Museum’s Uihlein Plaza. 

The hour-long performance will feature refugee composers from today, including 25-year-old Afghan composer Milad Yousufi, alongside historical refugee composers like Rachmaninoff, Korngold, and Irving Berlin. Chicago-area instrumentalists representing Syria, China, Uruguay, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia will be joined by Uyghur soprano Nina Mutalifu, making her debut as a COT Young Artist, and Polish-American soprano Amanda Majeski.

The concert will feature touchless entry, sanitized and physically distanced seating, and capacity will be capped at 100 attendees; masks will be required while moving to and from seats.