Review: In ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ at Lyric Opera, the painters are part of a rich tapestry

This Spanish-language opera by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz immerses the figures of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in a ...

Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ at Lyric Opera is a bold, new take on Puccini’s beloved opera

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

Billy Corgan named to board of directors of Chicago's Lyric opera house

Billy Corgan has been named to the board of directors of Chicago's Lyric opera house."Thank you to the Lyric Opera of Chicago ...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago Elects Five New Members Board of Directors

Lyric Opera of Chicago is welcoming to its Board five nationally recognized leaders whose expertise in music, arts, business, ...

Lyric Opera’s ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ goes beyond Fridamania

Kahlo arrives on the Lyric mainstage this month when the company presents “El último sueño de Frida y Diego,” with music by ...
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'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' comes to Chicago's Lyric Opera: 'It's all Black everything'

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The electrifying "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is coming to the Lyric Opera of Chicago next week. The new age opera is praised as a groundbreaking achievement of color and culture. It's ...
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Video: First Look at Lyric Opera of Chicago's Production of Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Check out footage from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, the story of a faithful but doomed geisha in love with B.F. Pinkerton, ...
Daily Herald

New horizons: Rare premieres, new works, concert experiments dominating the Chicago, suburban opera scene

Opera companies around Chicago are reexamining aspects of the art form’s more than 400-year-old history this fall season. There are several intriguing opera rarities receiving Chicago premieres, plus ...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago wows its audience with ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ and ‘Pagliacci’

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.