Sarah Bryan Miller

"Halka," a joint Lodz (Poland)-Chicago production, was old-fashioned in its painted flats, stand-and-deliver staging and singers who dropped character to bow after arias. But jarringly modern was its overamplification of...

Grant Park Symphony: Beethoven's "Missa solemnis" is profound, beautiful--and fiendishly difficult. On Saturday night the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Hugh Wolff gave it a...

Chicago music fans rang in the New Year with enough high-profile performers to field an awards show. Here's a look at some of the highlights as 1995 melted into 1996:...