This week, Karina Canellakis makes the CSO debut in Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. Opening the program is Augusta Read Thomas’ Brio, followed by Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, featuring Kirill Gerstein.

Including titles by Kurt Weill and Antonio Salieri.

The mad scene: one of opera’s most thrilling institutions.

An interview with the bel canto specialist, known for his three-octave vocal range.

Equally satisfying as the main course, these shorter works can round out your musical diet with different textures, flavors, and colors.

The legendary mezzo-soprano shares her love for Mozart, French mélodie, and American art song.

Some of today’s most beloved works of classical music weren’t well received when they made their debuts!

Quirky customs, long-lived legends, and other classical curiosities and superstitions.

An interview with the Mexican tenor in advance of his Lyric Opera debut in Verdi’s Rigoletto.

This music will stay with you—drawing you back to these pieces time and again.

Roberto Frontali in the title role of the Swiss folk hero, with John Osborn as Arnold and Lisette Oropesa starring as Mathilde.

Sampling the greatest recordings (reissued on the Eloquence label) from a fruitful collaboration.

Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.

Plus the overture to Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.

An interview with the bel canto specialist in advance of his return to Lyric Opera in Rossini’s Cinderella.

While all the men in town are called away to war, Ory seizes the opportunity to pursue the now unguarded women of the village. But they’ve all taken a vow of chastity – even the Countess Adèle…

We celebrate Riccardo Muti’s 13th and culminating season as the CSO’s tenth music director.

Next year’s lineup of six mainstage operas offers choices for traditional and contemporary opera fans alike.

The Peruvian tenor previews his upcoming Chicago recital for Symphony Center Presents.

The leading American bel canto specialist on singing Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, and welcoming new audiences with his Lawrence Brownlee & Friends concerts.

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

In March, the ascendant American baritone Edward Nelson took first prize at the 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup, an operatic singing competition hosted in England.

With the red carpet adorning Wacker Drive and the Art Deco opera house buzzing with excitement, Lyric Opera of Chicago celebrated its opening night on Saturday, September 28. Rossini’s Barber of Seville, the bubbly opera buffa, was an appropriate toast to the beginning of Lyric’s 65th season.

Just because the school year is right around the corner doesn’t mean that you have to stop playing (or writing) music. As proof, here are 16 pieces from composers written when they were still students!

We’re getting ready to share our Summer Music Guide (keep an eye out for it next week), but here are three events happening this weekend, each of which combine or reimagine classical music and dance, that we wanted to be sure to tell you about. The Rosina Project It’s Rossini like you’ve never heard him before. Chicago Fringe Opera teams …