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| U2's Bono and Sir Andrew Davis, musical director of the Lyric Opera, pose for a Lyric Opera brochure. (Courtesy of Lyric Opera) |
What's Bono doing on the cover of the Lyric Opera's annual Operathon brochure?
Well, the Lyric has a history of putting non- opera types on that cover — though Mike Ditka boasts an impressive set of pipes — and Lyric board President/CEO Richard Kiphart had gotten to know the U2 singer through his philanthropic work. So Kiphart asked Bono, the singer said yes, and the shot was taken in a Soldier Field hallway before the band performed there last September, Lyric communications director Susan Mathieson Mayer said.
Who's the Bono look-alike?
That's Sir Andrew Davis, the Lyric's 66-year-old music director and principal conductor, who struck a Bono-like pose with a fresh haircut and gel job plus $130 Armani sunglasses though his black T-shirt reads "Lyric Rocks" in contrast to Bono's "Lyric Opera." That photo is slated to appear in upcoming Lyric promotional materials.
"The T-shirts stand for something we're really trying to get across to the wider public," Davis said, "that opera is something that rocks."
So what's his favorite U2 song? "I don't have one. I've never heard any," he whispered with a laugh before realizing he once led the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of "Beautiful Day."
"I don't listen to pop music at all really, and I haven't for decades," he said, "so why should I start now?"
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