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Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra.

Grant Park Music Festival Announces Full Capacity for Entire Season

In conjunction with Chicago’s ongoing reopening, the Grant Park Music Festival will offer full-capacity seating for its entire 2021 season.

Associated Press | April 19, 2017

Soprano Nadine Sierra wins 2017 Richard Tucker Award

Angelica Lasala | April 18, 2017

Hearing George Shirley, the Met’s First Black Tenor, Sing Mozart Will Melt Your Heart

Associated Press | April 17, 2017

Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities

Finding the Details in Grand Opera: Muti, CSO, and CSO Chorus Present Verdi’s ‘Aida’

Michael San Gabino | June 21, 2019

Verdi's Aida is the apotheosis of grant opera, but the true beauty of Verdi lies not only in its grandeur but also in its details.

‘Closets Are For Clothes’: Celebrating Pride Month through Musical Coming Out Stories

Becky Nystedt | June 20, 2019

"I wanted to encourage young emerging LGBTQ+ composers to write pieces that tell their story in an authentic way... This concert series is both a celebration of how far we have come and how far we still have to go.”

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James Levine Named Ravinia Conductor Laureate

Michael San Gabino | April 12, 2017

James Levine, recently retired music director of the Metropolitan Opera, has been named conductor laureate of the Ravinia Festival.

2017 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts

Associated Press | April 10, 2017

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists: JOURNALISM Public Service New York Daily News and ProPublica for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities. Also nominated as finalists: The Chicago Tribune for reporting on prescription drug dispensing; and the Houston ...

Winners of London’s 2017 Olivier stage awards