Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre is hosting "The Phantom of the Opera," and staff offered a firsthand look at the iconic ...

Chicago opera fans have a lot to be excited about this season. There are plenty of starry singers and conductors making their debuts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, while all of the works in Chicago ...

Five decades in, Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-musical has an infuriating storyline and an impressive everything else. Cue the chandelier.

Think back to your history classes on the Revolutionary War. What sticks out? Paul Revere’s ride? How the colonists rallied at the Battle of Bunker Hill, back when “don’t fire ’til you see the whites ...

The Chicago Opera Theater released details about its 2022-23 season, noting that it will officially launch a 50th anniversary season and celebration in the fall of 2023. “With our 50th anniversary on ...

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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 ...

This season sees Chicago’s major opera companies celebrating many anniversaries amid a time of leadership changes. The Lyric Opera of Chicago is not only commemorating its 70th anniversary season, but ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Hosted by WFMT program host LaRob K. Rafael, the panel will feature the conductors ...

Picture this: You’re in your car, with your family, in an underground parking garage. On a makeshift stage, the performer and poet avery r. young, now Chicago’s poet laureate, is intoning and singing.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that Sylvia Neil, Chair of its Board of Directors, will step down in May 2026. She will be succeeded by Craig C. Martin, a prominent business and philanthropic ...