Last weekend, Lyric Opera of Chicago staged its world premiere of Safronia, a new work by avery r. young, Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate and a celebrated interdisciplinary artist. Safronia is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maestro Enrique Mazzola is now entering his 5th year as music director and conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mazzola is the third music director since Bruno Bartoletti, when […]
As part of the 2025-26 season, the Lyric Opera Chicago presents Coco In Concert Live to Film, where the Lyric Opera Orchestra plays the entirety of the film’s score during […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2025/26 season with a blockbuster with Italian composer Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. Just hearing the name evokes a dark tale of obsession, misogyny, and […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is refreshing classical music by bringing in newer works. The Listeners is written by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek based on the […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago continues its 50th season with Beethoven’s Fidelio, an opera not often staged in the repertoire of great opera houses. Perhaps it is the political tone […]
There has been a lot of discourse on the survival of opera companies in America. Even the revered Met has met criticisms for everything from the artistic direction and performance […]
Guiseppe Verdi’s Aida is perhaps one of his best-known operas and of all Italian operas. It has the treachery, aching love, and tragedy that befalls the great heroines of this […]