In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’

Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s “The Factotum,” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is a gloss on “The Barber of Seville” set in a South Side barbershop.

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