Most singers who perform with Lyric Opera of Chicago are artistic nomads who live elsewhere. They spend six to eight weeks here for rehearsals and performances, then they depart for their next ...

In this visually stunning production about the famed Mexican painters, the opera is built on the idea of the dead being able ...

In David Henry Hwang’s prescient 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” the character of Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese opera singer and spy, deftly laid out the case against Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera, ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago has released a first look video of EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO, running March 21 through April 4, 2026. Check out the all-new video!

Just as Butterfly is trapped with little agency in this opera, we as Asian Americans have been trapped by many of the ...

Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan joins Wendy Snyder (in for Bob Sirott) to talk about a string of upcoming performances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for A Night of Mellon Collie and ...

Do you sing in the shower like the rest of us? Meet Josie and Junehan, two real life opera singers who invited us to catch the rehearsal, so we invited them to answer some of your most pressing opera ...

Five-time "Jeopardy!" champion Ben Ganger is now focusing on family, work and performing with the South Bend Lyric Opera. Ganger won $109,000 from his run on the show and competed in the Tournament of ...

Billy Corgan teamed up with the Lyric Opera of Chicago for A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness, an opera concert series which premiered on Friday at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. At the ...

This month, Lyric Opera of Chicago is putting on a murderous operatic double feature of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” The remaining performances will be at 7:30 p.m.

South Bend Lyric Opera, founded by Romanian tenor Emanuel-Cristian Caraman, celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Collaborations with local arts organizations such as the South Bend Symphony Orchestra ...