It's the eternal question for all Chicagoans: "What should we do this weekend?" We're lucky to live in a city brimming with ...

Director Mary Birnbaum offers up a “Rigoletto” that’s partly revisionist yet has all the traditional pleasures of Italian ...

The numbers have improved, but nearly half of all schools still have only one art teacher, and some of those positions aren’t ...

While Rigoletto is the title character in this tale of wishful love and sordid betrayal in the depraved court of a ...

Lyric Opera’s “Rigoletto” runs through October 6 at Lyric Opera House, 20 North Wacker (at Madison). Performance dates are ...

Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of ...

The first official day of work for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new boss isn’t until October 14. Yet John Mangum, the 49-year-old arts administrator who is the opera company’s incoming general ...

That includes "Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price," recently released on Azica Records. Soprano Karen ...

Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of ...

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the ...

For years the Chicago International Film Festival was run on a shoestring budget, but a new gift from the Steiner family is ...

Last Saturday was one of the most rewarding opening nights of the season Lyric Opera of Chicago has seen in many years. Our ...