The new season, the 70th in Lyric Opera’s history, will include four mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the ...

What: George and Ira Gershwin’s quintessential American opera features “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So” and other ...

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Lyric Opera of Chicago laid out its 2025-26 season at a presentation at the Civic Opera House on Tuesday, the first season to ...

oston Lyric Opera will celebrate its 50th anniversary with four staged new productions led by women directors, the world ...

Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago runs through Feb. 14.

One of the operas in the Lyric's spring lineup isn't your typical opera. It's a new musical work by Chicago's first poet ...

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.

Opera is everything all at once: music and drama, poetry and dance, grandeur and intimacy, spectacle and sound. This all-encompassing aspect makes it one of the most accessible art forms yet one of ...