With Orchestra Hall still shaking down from the recent residency of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director designate Riccardo Muti and the attendant Mutimania, the CSO turns its podium over to a busy Chicago-based conductor this week.
As music director and principal conductor at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis (above, left) opened the season with Puccini's Tosca and is in the midst of leading the Lyric Orchestra in compelling performances of Gounod's Faust through November 7.