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- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 18, 2020
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The gremlin and the EdD
She earned the title—still he was dissing her! Would he do the same to, say, Dr. Kissinger?
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 11, 2020
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For the Love of Lyric fills the vocal void for now
Renée Fleming and friends offer a free genre-hopping virtual concert.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 14, 2020
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Scott Silberstein talks about catching live-performance magic onscreen
Relationships and 'yes, and' guide HMS Media's approach to filming live shows.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Mar 18, 2020
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Nothing next to normal
As the curtain falls on live performance, museums and performing arts groups scramble to adapt online.
- News & Politics, Culture Mar 11, 2020
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What pandemic?
Chicago cultural institutions keep their cool.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 17, 2020
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A winning Queen of Spades
Deal yourself in for Tchaikovsky's operatic exploration of obsession at Lyric.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 11, 2020
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Madama Butterfly is the ultimate bad date story
"Honor incarnate" meets a dirtbag in Puccini's opera, with tragic results.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Dec 17, 2019
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Sara Schumann uses her dance and law background to keep Madison Ballet on pointe
The longtime Chicago dancer and labor lawyer turns Nutcracker revenues into new initiatives.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 2, 2019
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We three queens
Sondra Radvanovsky sings the last acts of Donizetti's three Tudor queen operas.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 4, 2019
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Dead Man Walking makes its gut-punching Lyric debut
Jake Heggie's opera took nearly 20 years to make the journey to Lyric, but it's not to be missed.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 8, 2019
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Ripped from the headlines of 1957, West Side Story still has plenty to say about 2019
The Lyric’s faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it’s the women who are the stars.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 12, 2019
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An American Dream tackles Japanese-American internment during WWII
Lyric Opera’s outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 8, 2019
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Not even an injured knee can stop Nina Stemme’s powerful performance as Elektra
The soprano makes an impressive Lyric debut.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 25, 2019
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Opera News: Lyric's Ring Cycle season and COT's all-female executive suite
Lyric Opera announces its next season, and Chicago Opera Theater's put the women in charge.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 21, 2018
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Tired of solicitations from big nonprofits? We have just the solution for you!
With the Executive Pay Test, it’s easier than ever to decide which group deserves your hard-earned cash!
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 4, 2018
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More than a century after its Paris premiere, Cendrillon comes to the Lyric
The archly sophisticated production was worth the wait.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 21, 2018
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Il Trovatore's plot is grim, but who cares when you know the score?
Giuseppe Verdi's greatest-hits score keeps this warhorse on the stages of major opera companies.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 6, 2018
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The Lyric’s Ring Cycle continues with the amazing adventures of Siegfried
Wagner’s music is glorious, even if his hero never becomes more than a blustering little boy.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Oct 24, 2018
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In Idomeneo, Mozart's music and love prevail against an angry sea god
The strike is over and the Lyric is back in business.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Oct 9, 2018
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Lyric's La Bohème has its flaws, but Puccini's score overcomes most of them
Heavy-handed direction highlights the outdated sexism of the 19th-century story.
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
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Lyric Opera’s La Bohème is the perfect comfort as winter looms
The 2018 season opens with Puccini's sublime music and a cast primed to make the most of it.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 1, 2018
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Lyric’s Jesus Christ is, indeed, a superstar
He causeth the amplifiers to thunder and glitter to rain down upon the stage.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2018
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Fellow Travelers brings the 1950s ‘lavender scare’ to opera
Boy meets boy amid McCarthy-era witch hunts in Fellow Travelers, the opera.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Feb 28, 2018
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Are interest-rate swaps a bad bet?
During a decade of low rates, they were a major expense for the city’s cultural institutions.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2018
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Even in the age of of #MeToo, Lyric‘s Così Fan Tutte is still a thing of beauty
The ostensible subject is women's constancy, but the real subject has always been the full scope of human nature—and the music.
