Sitting in the dark on Wacker Drive listening to the grand Lyric Opera Chorus sing of such primal feelings is worth ...

Beethoven’s only opera is a timeless tale of good versus evil, where a wife takes desperate measures to free her husband from ...

Director Mary Birnbaum offers up a “Rigoletto” that’s partly revisionist yet has all the traditional pleasures of Italian ...

While Rigoletto is the title character in this tale of wishful love and sordid betrayal in the depraved court of a ...

Last year, Creel was in Chicago starring as The Wolf in the national touring production of "Into the Woods" at the ...

Think you know what opera is? Sharon, a director and University of Chicago fellow, has written a new book asking audiences to ...

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the ...

From Oktoberfest Chicago and Chicago Gourmet to the Hyde Park Jazz Festival and the Chicago Salsa Festival, there's plenty of ...

Last Saturday was one of the most rewarding opening nights of the season Lyric Opera of Chicago has seen in many years. Our ...

This season sees Chicago’s major opera companies celebrating many anniversaries amid a time of leadership changes. The Lyric ...

Boosted by an $11 ticket offer, a large and largely young audience turned out for the opening of Mazzoli’s latest work.

It's the eternal question for all Chicagoans: "What should we do this weekend?" We're lucky to live in a city brimming with ...