The Fall of the House of Usher presented by Chicago Opera Theater at Harris Theater

Chicago Stage Review - Highly Recommended

"...In their spellbinding production of The Fall of the House of Usher, Chicago Opera Theater again pushes its medium to the creative edge and the results are compelling, thought provoking and creepy as hell. Mr. Poe would be pleased and you will be transfixed."

Chicago On the Aisle - Recommended

"...The first opera of the company's 2013 season, and the first under Mitisek's direction, is a co-production with his other company, Long Beach Opera, of Philip Glass's 1987 chamber opera "The Fall of the House of Usher." On paper this looks like a no-brainer: American opera's most influential composer of the 20th century transforming a gothic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe, the 19th century's master of the macabre. You can almost taste the possibilities for sustained tension and terror."

Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...Chicago Opera Theater has teamed up with Long Beach Opera in California to produce a delightfully disturbing presentation of Philip Glass' adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's renowned horror text, The Fall of the House of Usher. While the cliches of such American Gothic might seem to call for organ and Theremin, Glass' repetitions ratchet up paranoia and disorientation to a degree that honors the author."