
It works best when it's operating at opposite poles. Sheader's production doesn't inject obvious parallels to our own celebrity-driven political culturepossibly because the United Kingdom hasn't yet elected a reality-TV star as prime minister. It's big, bombastic, glittery, sweatybut also a little empty at the center.

Lyric Opera closes its season with the North American premiere of Timothy Sheader's celebrated 2016 London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, which is slated for a U.S. Playwright: Andrew Lloyd Webber ( music ) Tim Rice ( lyrics )Īt: Lyric Opera of Chicago, 20 N.
