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The Borelli's Pizza audience watch as Stan DeCwikiel, Allison Mann, and Evita Trembley perform during the Chicago Fringe Opera improv show, June 4, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Best classical and jazz of 2025: Our top 10 included a tasty concept at Ravinia, improv and a ‘moving’ performance at the CSO

December 11, 2025 at 3:29 p.m.

The best festival, the best solos and some fresh ideas from a busy year for Chicago music.

Composer Matthew Aucoin and soprano Julia Bullock embrace following the world premier of Aucoin’s "Song of the Reappeared" at Symphony Center in Chicago on Dec. 4, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: A chilling CSO premiere, magnificently led

December 5, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.

Matt Aucoin's "Song of the Reappeared," based on the work of poet Raúl Zurita, is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's only world premiere this season and should not be missed.

Christian Pursell and Vanessa Becerra perform in Chicago Opera Theater's production of Antonio Salieri's "Falstaff" at the Studebaker Theater on Dec. 3, 2025. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Review: ‘Falstaff’ by Chicago Opera Theater is a sunny farce that shows off the real Salieri

December 5, 2025 at 10:22 a.m.

This production in the Fine Arts Building transplants Shakespeare-via-Salieri’s comical opera to a chi-chi, “White Lotus”-style beach resort.

Nadya Tolokonnikova’s "Police State" from a performance at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. The Pussy Riot co-founder is bringing the work to the Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art. (Yulia Shur)

MCA’s ‘Police State’ is a lesson in resistance from a founding member of Pussy Riot

November 21, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

Dissident Nadya Tolokonnikova talks to the Tribune about the installation that re-creates a Russian prison cell inside the museum.

Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project operations director Myles Francis talks to a walking tour group about a ground marker with the name of Robert Williams etched in a glass brick, displayed at the intersection of South State and West Van Buren Streets, Nov. 8, 2025, in Chicago. Williams was one of 38 people killed during the violence of the riot. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Walking in the Loop? Look down. You may be passing new markers of city’s Race Riot of 1919.

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

Brick markers identify where Chicagoans were slain, with 19 of the 38 planned bricks installed to date.

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 28, 2023, in Orchestra Hall in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Review: A guitar concerto throwback enlivens Riccardo Muti’s CSO fall residency

November 7, 2025 at 12:23 p.m.

Performances by soloist Pablo Sainz-Villegas were the highlight of Muti’s two-week autumn residency, now customary for the CSO’s music director emeritus.

Julie Simek, left, conservator of paintings, works on “Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers" by Jean Baptiste Oudry, while Gerrit Albertson, associate conservator of paintings, works on “Portrait of a Woman” attributed to Nicolaes Maes, at the Art Institute of Chicago on Oct. 29, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Art Institute announces $50 million conservation center, with the public welcome to watch the work

November 4, 2025 at 4:21 p.m.

The Grainger Center for Conservation and Science, due to open in 2027, will occupy prime real estate in the museum's former Regenstein Hall.

Tatsu Aoki, bassist and founder of Asian Improv Arts Midwest, on Oct. 23, 2025. Aoki is organizing the 30th annual Asian American Jazz Festival, hosted by Elastic Arts in Logan Square. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

With its own home base, Asian Improv Arts Midwest and its jazz festival are here to stay

November 3, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

If a building represented Tatsu Aoki’s life, it would look like the Asian Improv Arts Midwest dojo, on Elston Avenue. After years of renting space from the Japanese American Service...

Hannah De Priest as Dafne in Haymarket Opera and Newberry Consort's "Euridice" in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute. (Elliot Mandel)

Review: Haymarket Opera and Newberry Consort link up for a rare ‘Euridice’

October 27, 2025 at 11:28 a.m.

Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” composed for a Medici court wedding in 1600, holds the title of the oldest extant opera.

Molly Clementz, left, and Elizabeth Shuman perform “Here Be Sirens”, an opera by Kate Soper, during the 2025 Ear Taxi Festival’s Anchor Performance at the Kehrein Center for the Arts in Chicago on Oct. 17, 2025. (Troy Stolt/for the baiduhai)

Review: Back and bigger than ever, 2025’s Ear Taxi is a smooth ride

October 21, 2025 at 4:27 p.m.

Against all odds, the Ear Taxi Festival is back — and how.

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