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Pianist Bruce Liu and chief festival conductor Marin Alsop take a bow together with Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park on July 11, 2025. (Nate Swanson/for the baiduhai)

Review: CSO’s season opens at Ravinia, egging on hopes for the Pavilion renovation

July 13, 2025 at 1:39 p.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop ushered in a new outdoor season in Highland Park with a pair of concerts, both challenged by difficult acoustics.

Chucho Valdés and Arturo Sandoval of the Latin jazz band Irakere perform at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park on July 9, 2025, as part of the band's 50th anniversary tour. (Alec Syrvalin Ravinia Festival)

Review: At Ravinia Festival, ‘Irakere 50’ is a joyous musical reunion

July 10, 2025 at 2:04 p.m.

The storied Cuban band of Latin jazz all-stars had some talented newcomers for its 50th anniversary outing. Ravinia's Martin Theatre couldn't contain them.

Hazel Meier, 6, views common garter snakes during feeding time in the "Reptiles Alive!" exhibition at the Field Museum, June 25, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

‘Reptiles Alive!’ is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds

May 22, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

Legless lizards, anyone? Breaking down assumptions about reptiles has been the life’s work of associate curator Sara Ruane.

Key'mon Murrah and Emily Fons in Haymarket Opera Company's production of "Artaserse" in Jarvis Opera Hall at DePaul University. (Elliot Mandel)

Review: A breakout star brightens Haymarket Opera’s ‘Artaserse’

June 28, 2025 at 1:02 p.m.

“Artaserse” may have the prince’s name in its title, but Key'mon Murrah, making his Haymarket debut, was unquestionably the highlight of Friday night's opening.

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Grant Park Orchestra and trumpeter Pacho Flores at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park on June 20, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Review: Giancarlo Guerrero steps into new Grant Park Music Fest role with a pair of genial and dynamic programs

June 21, 2025 at 1:04 p.m.

In Millennium Park concerts on Wednesday and this weekend, the new conductor of Chicago's summer classical music series proves himself unflappable — despite the storms on Wednesday.

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Joseph Haydn’s symphonies at at Orchestra Hall on, June 12, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Review: Muti returns to the CSO, principal trumpeter and Verdi’s Requiem in tow

June 20, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.

A signature of Riccardo Muti’s tenure here, the Requiem was performed and recorded to wide acclaim, first through a Grammy-winning 2010 album and again via livestream in 2013.

Andrew Litton conducts members of the Grant Park Orchestra while they perform George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" during the opening night of the Grant Park Music Festival on June 11, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: Grant Park Music Festival opens with Latin dances and a multitasking conductor

June 12, 2025 at 4:39 p.m.

Guest conductor Andrew Litton devised a sufficiently show-stopping opener on Wednesday by conducting and playing “Rhapsody in Blue.”

The audience watch as Grace Zieman and Molly Clementz perform with other opera singers during the Chicago Fringe Opera improv show at Borelli's Pizza, June 4, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Whose libretto is it, anyway? Chicago opera company takes on improv

June 9, 2025 at 11:03 a.m.

What if you took that very Chicago comedy form and made it Mozart? Chicago Fringe Opera’s “Op*erratic” finds out every Wednesday at Borelli’s Pizzeria.

Jacqueline Echols McCarley as Rosa Parks in "She Who Dared" by Chicago Opera Theatre in the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: ‘She Who Dared’ lovingly fact-checks civil rights history

June 7, 2025 at 11:58 a.m.

Chicago Opera Theater’s world-premiere about the 1950s Montgomery bus boycotts tells the real story, usually a one-liner in history books, if that.

In a recent MusicNOW series concert, violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, left, performs with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center on Nov. 24, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

CSO hires a new chorus director; cancels next season’s MusicNOW series

June 6, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

Donald Palumbo is only the third director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. But the "pause" for MusicNOW leaves the CSO without a contemporary music series for the moment.

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