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Lyric’s ’22-23 Season: Verdi, ‘Fiddler,’ Fleming, & ‘Carmen’

Plus a world premiere, Chicago-set take on ‘The Barber of Seville’ and the return of ‘West Side Story’

Stephen RaskauskasApril 13, 2017

Video: Pianist Vassily Primakov Plays Chopin and Rachmaninoff

Michael San GabinoApril 12, 2017

James Levine Named Ravinia Conductor Laureate

Associated PressApril 10, 2017

2017 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts

Can video games bring new, younger audiences into classical music?

Greg BroderickSeptember 13, 2019

Video games don’t always conjure up images of a concert hall. Surveys show that 90% percent of teens play video games on a computer, game console, or phone. The numbers aren’t quite as high when you ask teens if they like classical music — a separate survey shows that classical music is the preferred genre of just about 4% of ...

Lyric Names Next Music Director: Enrique Mazzola To Succeed Sir Andrew Davis

Keegan MorrisSeptember 12, 2019

Mazzola will be just the third music director in the company's history.

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Meet CSO Solti Conducting Apprentice Erina Yashima

Angelica LasalaApril 5, 2017

For ten weeks each year, Erina Yashima works directly with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti and leads the Civic Orchestra.

Chicago Opera Theater Announces 17-18 Season Including World Premiere by Pulitzer-Winning Team

Stephen RaskauskasApril 5, 2017

Chicago Opera Theater announced its 2017-18 season: three operas, including a world-premiere co-production with Opera Philadelphia, to be staged at the newly-renovated Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building.

Chicago Sinfonietta’s 30th Anniversary Season Showcases ‘Full Spectrum of Voices and Identities’

Angelica LasalaApril 3, 2017

The Chicago Sinfonietta recently announced its 30th season line-up, as well as the launch of its Commissions by Women Composers Project, a season-long effort to close music’s gender equality gap by commissioning, performing, and recording, works by women composers.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff