Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The elite New York ensemble takes up its annual downtown Chicago residency with a program of vocal and piano chamber music – Barber's "Souvenirs,"...
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A major homage to master modernist Gyorgy Ligeti coming from U. of C.
If the name Gyorgy Ligeti doesn't ring an immediate bell in the minds of local classical music buffs as do the names of Pierre Boulez, John Cage or other avant-garde...
Gardiner’s Monteverdi cycle concludes with triumphant ‘Poppea’
John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi opera cycle reached a magnificent conclusion with the dramatized concert version of "L'incoronazione di Poppea" ("The Coronation of Poppea") presented under his direction Sunday afternoon at...
Gardiner launches Monteverdi cycle with brilliant ‘L’Orfeo’ at Harris Theater
And so the grand Monteverdi adventure has begun. John Eliot Gardiner and his global road show of the three surviving operas of Claudio Monteverdi — titled "Monteverdi 450" in honor...
Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts
Chicago Philharmonic: Artistic director Scott Speck conducts the season opener, which holds Carl Orff's splashy cantata "Carmina Burana," along with Stravinsky's "Firebird" Suite and Christopher Theofanidis' "Rainbow Body." The Apollo...
Bill Murray at Orchestra Hall is a show no one else could have done
What happens when the one and only Bill Murray recites American literature and flexes his pipes on songs from the great American songbook, backed by three accomplished classical musicians at...
Gardiner’s epic Monteverdi opera road show touches down in Chicago
Get ready for the Full Monteverdi. This week will bring one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the fall classical music season to Chicago: The respected British conductor and...
Vocal sparks fly in Lyric Opera’s riveting ‘Rigoletto’
Operatic Cassandras are forever lamenting that the age of great Verdi vocalism is dead, that there just aren't enough first-rate voices around to take on the big Verdi works that...
CSO Chorus does what it can on behalf of maudlin Gounod mass
Before the Chicago Symphony Orchestra departs for a two-week tour taking them to Kansas City and the West Coast under Riccardo Muti, it is joining the Chicago Symphony Chorus for...
Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts
John Eliot Gardiner: The British early music specialist brings his Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and 18 soloists to Chicago for one of fall's major events. As part of a...