Hell is other people. At least that’s according to Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1944 drama, No Exit. Now hear how Hell sounds with music when Chicago Opera Vanguard presents the Windy City premiere of British composer Andy Vores’ 2007 operatic adaptation of No Exit. The opera plays 8 p.m. Oct. 16-17 and 3 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre, 3656 N. Halsted. Tickets are $10-$25; see www.chicagooperavanguard.org. Photo by Ian Epstein