Howard Reich

In a major changing of the guard, Lyric Opera of Chicago's longtime music director and principal conductor, Andrew Davis, will retire from the post at the end of the 2020-21...

Nearly five months ago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra settled the longest strike in its history, a battle over pensions and salary covered by news organizations around the world. Everyone wondered...

It's a question every classical music presenter must ask: Where will tomorrow's audiences come from? The days when tickets are scarce for symphonic and operatic performances appear to have passed...

Maria Callas made a ghostly return to the Lyric Opera House on Saturday night, 42 years after she died. She appeared as a hologram, accompanied by members of the Lyric...

Any Chicago jazz season that spotlights singers Sheila Jordan and Dee Alexander, saxophonists Miguel Zenon and Dave Liebman, guitarist George Freeman and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has a great to deal...

The 41st annual Chicago Jazz Festival made music history on Sunday evening, quite a way to end this year's unusually strong event. On paper, Latino-America Unida – in its first...

Why is Cecile McLorin Salvant the most talked-about singer in jazz today? For uncounted reasons, many of them evident Saturday night at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, during the...