Opened in 1904, Ravinia is the oldest outdoor music festival in the north suburbs and in North America. It actually opened as an amusement park with a casino and a baseball diamond. By 1912 the place was reinvented as THE place for fine opera until the Great Depression, which ruined everything. Actually, it was thrilling to sit on our picnic blankets out on the lawn of Ravinia Park last night and listen to the voices of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant streaming through the speakers. I can't imagine preferring that it had been opera.
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