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- Music, Music Review Mar 2, 2021
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Will Liverman and Paul Sánchez celebrate Black composers and writers on a collaborative album
- Music, Music Review Jul 11, 2020
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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed
- 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 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Heavy-handed direction highlights the outdated sexism of the 19th-century story.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.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2018
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Five opera films that hit the high notes
If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center's screening of The Magic Flute has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 13, 2017
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Turandot isn’t just problematic—it’s complicated
Puccini’s opera returns to the Lyric, and so does its troubling Orientalism.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
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Chicago-born Muslim Indian soul singer Zeshan B calls for black and brown unity
This week Zeshan B celebrates his debut solo album, Vetted, which blends Indo-Pakistani music and American soul.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jan 18, 2017
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Lyric Opera’s attempt to get the city to sing is coming to a resounding conclusion
With Chicago Voices, the company hopes to engage a wider audience.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2016
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Lyric Opera’s restaged The Magic Flute says ‘Hey, kids, let’s put on a show!’
A backyard version of Mozart's final opera makes its debut.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2016
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Two tenors, one musician
On his latest project, Norway's Håkon Kornstad combines his operatic tenor voice and his improv-rooted tenor saxophone.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2016
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An amazing idea for an amazing opera about me, Donald Trump
Dear composer John Adams, have I got an idea for you!
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 3, 2014
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How to win at box-office bingo
With dynamic pricing, you can score cheap seats—or get priced out.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Jul 13, 2014
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This week's Chicagoan: Joshua Dumas, composer
"There are a lot of composers who can hear stuff in their mind's ear, but I'm not one of them."
- Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Fri 5/16: Manifest Urban Arts Festival, The Inspector and the Prince, and Owls
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 16
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2014
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"Performing Images" exposes our parochial view of pop culture
A jaw-dropping ongoing show focuses on the impact of opera on Chinese visual culture.
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 19, 2013
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Best Opera Company Doing Puccini in a Church
American Chamber Opera
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Mar 21, 2013
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jim Cuomo
This saxophonist and composer played experimental psych with Spoils of War and acid folk with Mormos, and now writes for a brass band in Australia.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Feb 14, 2013
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Under a new general director, Chicago Opera Theater aims to seduce
Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2012
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Rabid Rabbit's dark take on opera at New Capital's 24HRS/25DAYS celebration
Local four-piece avent-garge metal act Rabid Rabbid take on the doom and gloom of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2012
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Coming soon: films by Werner Schroeter
Thoughts on the late German director, the subject of an upcoming partial retrospective at Facets
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2011
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Opera in the movies, and vice versa
A consideration of the relationship between opera and film.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 24, 2011
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Yours, Jimmy
Written 60 years ago and rediscovered on eBay, a young gay man’s personal letters become fodder for a new opera.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2011
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This Week in Food & Drink: A salami evangelist, the Florentine, Key Ingredient spirulina, and more
In this week's Food & Drink: the Sodfather, the Florentine, Paul Virant of Vie takes our Key Ingredient chef challenge of spirulina, and the latest openings and closings.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink News Jan 6, 2011
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On the Rocks: Le Passage
Belgium comes to West Town, Patty’s Diner closes, and more
