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 ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Disney’s Mary Poppins in Concert Live to Film, featuring the full-length film projected ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arguing that art is its own form of resistance, the Minnesota Opera forged ahead with the world premiere of “My Name is Florence” amid widespread immigration enforcement actions in the area.