We’re at a pizza parlor, listening to “The Perversity of Captain Morgan.” This opera has everything: drunk pirates, “horny fish,” a preteen stowaway from Colorado, and a character referred to only as ...

Inflation is rampant, jobs are vanishing, and the nation is divided between political extremes. The loudest voices are on the far right, which has gained a power hold, in part by scapegoating ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the world premiere of safronia, a landmark musical composition commissioned from Chicago ...

The Opera Festival of Chicago presents Love is a Triangle, Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Jarvis Opera Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University School of Music, 800 W. Belden ...

At what point does history become hagiography? Composer Jasmine Barnes and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton tackle that question in “She Who Dared,” Chicago Opera Theater’s world-premiere retelling ...

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to fascist Italy of the 1930s, setting up weird geographical and chronological ...

This month, Lyric Opera of Chicago is putting on a murderous operatic double feature of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” The remaining performances will be at 7:30 p.m.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The electrifying "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is coming to the Lyric Opera of Chicago next week. The new age opera is praised as a groundbreaking achievement of color and culture. It's ...

Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre is hosting "The Phantom of the Opera," and staff offered a firsthand look at the iconic chandelier inside the theater this week. Chicago alders may move toward a full ...