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Lisette Oropesa and company in "The Daughter of the Regiment" at Lyric Opera.

Review: ‘The Daughter of the Regiment’ at Lyric Opera is fun, fizzy and 50 years overdue

November 9, 2023 at 11:18 a.m.

Few tenors can sing the aria "Ah! mes amis," with its nine high Cs, quite like Lawrence Brownlee. Even fewer can, on a lark, sing its high-wire cabaletta all over...

Samara Joy and her band opened Symphony Center Jazz's 30th season in Chicago on Oct. 27, 2023.

Review: Samara Joy opens Symphony Center Jazz’s 30th season: The jazz kids are alright

October 29, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.

A gamechanger on the city scene when it launched in 1994, Symphony Center's esteemed jazz series celebrates its 30th season this year. Its opening headliner, last Friday? She turns 24...

Pianist Conrad Tao performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center on Oct. 19, 2023.

Review: At CSO, Gaffigan conducts Gershwin and Bernstein. Who says classical music can’t be fun?

October 20, 2023 at 1:10 p.m.

When did "fun" become such a dirty word in classical music? "Fun" attaches itself to kids' or pops concerts, or a slapstick opera staging, long before it would get pinned...

Aleksey Igudesman (in red cap), John Malkovich (center) and cast in a touring production of "The Music Critic."

‘The Music Critic’ with John Malkovich is coming to the Chicago Theatre. He insists the show is not his way of getting revenge.

October 19, 2023 at 12:32 p.m.

While booting up Zoom to talk to actor John Malkovich and classical-music humorist Aleksey Igudesman about "The Music Critic," a musical-theatrical sendup of scowling, grumbling ink slingers everywhere, I was,...

Outgoing New York Philharmonic music director Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 on Oct. 12, 2023.

Review: At CSO, a gifted baritone but a giftless Beethoven 5

October 13, 2023 at 12:25 p.m.

The leaves haven't even changed, and the Chicago Symphony has already given us one of its can't-miss billings of the season. On paper, this weekend's cycle has two big draws....

Marshall Field's Frango Mint Chocolate boxes on display at the "Lost Chicagoland Department Stores" exhibition at the Elmhurst History Museum in Elmhurst on Oct. 5, 2023.

In Elmhurst, ‘Lost Chicagoland Department Stores’ is a small exhibition remembering our biggest stores

May 22, 2026 at 7:50 p.m.

Author and historian Leslie Goddard's fascination with department stores runs in the family. Her grandfather was a department store lifer, working first for Marshall Field's then Carson Pirie Scott. Her...

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Major at Orchestra Hall, Sept. 28, 2023, in Chicago.

Review: The CSO takes a musical trip to Italy, plus a Philip Glass world premiere — but Strauss could have stayed home

September 29, 2023 at 6:53 p.m.

The Chicago Symphony is off to Italy. Musically, that is. Physically, the orchestra doesn't travel to the homeland of its former music director, Riccardo Muti, until January, the grand finale...

Poet Nikki Giovanni and saxophonist Javon Jackson address the audience before their performance at Hyde Park Union Church during the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 23, 2023, in Chicago.

Review: Hyde Park Jazz Fest ranged from reverential to riotous in its stuffed 17th year

September 25, 2023 at 12:46 p.m.

Had it not been the first day of the 17th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 23 still would have been a big day for jazz fans. During his set...

Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on opening night at Symphony Center on Sept. 21, 2023.

Review: Muti conducts ‘Firebird’ for a CSO opening night full of superb storytelling

September 22, 2023 at 1:10 p.m.

Poor Anatoly Lyadov. If you're thinking "Who?," that's about right. The Russian composer was the Ballets Russes' first choice to write music for a choreographic retelling of the Firebird, a...

Reporter Hannah Edgar tries on the Lyric Opera's SoundShirt.

Lyric Opera is introducing a SoundShirt, a device that will let deaf audience members feel the music

September 20, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

The opening bars of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" are as visceral as they come in opera: the icy zing of tremolo strings, then a full-chested, loping brass chorale. For hearing...

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