The Lyric Opera’s adventurous 2026/27 season will feature seven operas and some nontraditional operatic fare. The season opener will be Mozart’s Don Giovanni, which promises to be spectacular with Christian […]
El último sueño de Frida y Diego premiered at the Lyric Opera last weekend, and it was one of the most thrilling operas I have seen. The music was written […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Saturday. It has been highly anticipated with a new vision for the story of Cio Cio […]
Wednesday was a significant anniversary for Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee, ein Wintermärchen (The Silver Lake, A Winter’s Fairy Tale). It was banned by the Nazis on that date in 1933, and Weill […]
This review was written by Zach Carstensen. On Valentine’s Day weekend, Chicago City Opera brought Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon (Cinderella) to the CheckOut in Lakeview, proving that you don’t need a […]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a classical music genius from the 16th century. He was also something of a rock star in the 20th century. Mozart was one of the few […]
In the Bible, the name of the Princess of Judea is never mentioned. In his 1893 play, Oscar Wilde gave the teenage seductress a name: Salome. In 1905, Richard Strauss completed […]
The Chicago Opera Theater, a much-enjoyed cultural institution, performs works from the corners of history that have been forgotten or have not received their due recognition. COT commissions and stages […]
Perhaps more than any other ’90s rock icon, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has remained unapologetically artistically adventurous three decades into his career—while the most recent Pearl Jam and Foo […]
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is an excellent intro to choral music: only 65 minutes long and already quite familiar as the dramatic flair of “O Fortuna” can be heard in […]
Some of the finest singers in opera today performed last Saturday on the newly christened Robert and Penelope Steiner Parquet at the Civic Opera House. The concert was a product […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago gives us a fall doubleheader with two classic Italian operas rooted in the verismo tradition. Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (1890) and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (1892) […]