This year’s Grammys, the 65th annual ceremony, takes place on Sunday, February 5.

The Recording Academy announced its 2023 Grammy nominations on November 15, 2022.

For soprano Ailyn Pérez, being rejected by the man she loves is all part of the job. But offstage, she is planning her wedding to bass Soloman Howard.

Mazzola speaks with WFMT general manager George Preston about returning to live performance, Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, and what he loves most about being a Chicagoan.

Matthew Polenzani, one of the artists performing at the Met’s Verdi Requiem commemorative concerts on the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, reflects on why music can help us heal.

Chicago native soprano Ailyn Pérez speaks to us about some of her favorite Latin American and Spanish music and shares a playlist of influential singers and music.

A Verdi and bel canto expert, Lyric’s new music director Enrique Mazzola will open the season with Verdi’s Macbeth and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, while also conducting contemporary opera Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli later in the season.

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season opens this weekend in truly unprecedented fashion: with a virtual gala.

Internationally acclaimed soprano Ailyn Pérez visited the WFMT studios to share “The Jewel Song” from Gounod’s “Faust” as well as one of her favorite songs by composer María Grever, “Júrame.”