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  Rare operatic jewels The Opera Festival of Chicago will stage six performances at venues across the Chicago area during its fourth season. “Puccini Forever,” featuring arias and scenes from all of Giacomo Puccini’s operas, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on June 21 at DePaul University in Chicago; Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. June 27 and 29, and 2 p.m. June 30 at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston; and Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Il Prigioniero” and Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Medium” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. July 11 and 2 p.m. July 14 at the Athenaeum Theater …

Having taught herself to sculpt marble, Jyl Bonaguro has set her sights on a contemporary re-imagining of one of the medium’s towering masterworks. For years, Jyl Bonaguro had a vision so clear it was almost haunting: sculpting a female figure in marble on the scale of Michelangelo’s David. Bonaguro, the current president of Chicago Sculpture International, is fundraising for her project to create Modern Athena, which has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation. Bonaguro tells Fra Noi about her passion for art, how she found her way to sculpting, and her determination to …