Review: A breakout star brightens Haymarket Opera’s ‘Artaserse’
“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.
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Review: Giancarlo Guerrero steps into new Grant Park Music Fest role with a pair of genial and dynamic programs
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.
Review: Muti returns to the CSO, principal trumpeter and Verdi’s Requiem in tow
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.
Review: Grant Park Music Festival opens with Latin dances and a multitasking conductor
Guest conductor Andrew Litton devised a sufficiently show-stopping opener on Wednesday by conducting and playing “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Whose libretto is it, anyway? Chicago opera company takes on improv
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.
Review: ‘She Who Dared’ lovingly fact-checks civil rights history
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.
CSO hires a new chorus director; cancels next season’s MusicNOW series
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.
Chicago’s museums for summer 2025: ‘Reptiles’ at the Field, brews at the zoos and ‘Spider-Man’ the exhibit
Experiences, not exhibitions, are coaxing folks off their couches and into cultural institutions. Here are some worth checking out.
Classical and jazz for summer 2025: From concert halls to the open air of Millennium Park
Chicago summer looks to be as busy as ever, with classical and jazz programming packed with blockbusters.
Intuit Art Museum has its big reopening: ‘I don’t want this to be a traditional art museum’
With a landmark renovation, the Intuit in West Town has also rebranded to eliminate the divisive "outsider art" terminology.