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Reuben Lillie

Greenville

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Known for his “virile sound” and “reliable technique,” Opera News exclaims Reuben L. Lillie “graces his music with an intrinsically attractive timbre.” The Pennsylvania-born, Chicago-based tenor produces a sound that is both “vibrant and penetrating,” according to Chicago Classical Review.

Reuben’s 2023 season began with a return to Sugar Creek Opera for a concert of cherished love songs of the theater with fellow Danis Wilson alum, soprano Megan Brunning. Reuben also presented his first Turridu in a concert version of Cavalleria rusticana with West Suburban Symphony. Further season highlights include the Chicago premiere of Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Assassinio nella cattedrale with Opera Festival of Chicago as First Tempter/Knight, for which local critic M. L. Rantala praised Reuben’s tenor sound as “both ingratiating and menacing” to the Hyde Park Herald. Reuben also played Uldino and covered Foresto in the Festival’s production of Verdi’s Attila as well as presenting arias and duets of power, glory, and betrayal by Donizetti and Cherubini at the Festival’s Italian soirée.

Recent stage appearances include Opera Festival of Chicago’s Midwest premiere of Verdi’s Il corsaro (Schiavo, covering Corrado) as well as a concert commemorating the centenary of Renata Tebaldi, for which Verismo Hotspot praised Reuben as “boyishly clarion of timbre.”

In competition, Reuben’s awards include first place by the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and being named a Central Region finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.

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