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 ...

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 ...

Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet will show us when it stages the U.S. premiere of Atonement, a dance adaptation of the Ian McEwan ...

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

By Javier C. Hernández Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a notably energetic podium presence. By Adam Nossiter Anthony ...

Lyric Opera’s “Rigoletto” runs through October 6 at Lyric Opera House, 20 North Wacker (at Madison). Performance dates are ...

Music Director Enrique Mazzola kicks off Lyric’s 70th season with this production. The much-acclaimed Verdian conducts the legendary score with instantly recognizable highlights like the Duke ...