Lyric Opera of Chicago resumed its season on Wednesday evening with the new-to-Chicago production of Puccini’s perennial audience pleaser La bohème.
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The Chicago Federation of Musicians (CFM) Local #10-208 is striking against Lyric Opera of Chicago.
The Stars of Lyric Opera weren’t under the stars last night, prevented by a persistent cloud bank, but they nonetheless provided a stirring evening of music in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
Just a few years back it would have been seen as ridiculous to put “Lyric Opera of Chicago” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the same sentence.
I found Fellow Travelers intellectually and politically riveting, musically thrilling, and profoundly moving. It was a triumph.
The production is at all times visually arresting, but it’s also extremely distracting.
It was an afternoon of spectacular singing, particularly from the two principals and the glorious Lyric Opera Chorus.
“It’s quite a coup to have Alice Coote starring in not one but two company premieres at Lyric next season.”
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s spectacularly colorful and glitzy new production of The Pearl Fishers opened on Sunday.
It’s a fairly traditional post-Patrice-Chereau Ring, set during the Industrial Revolution.
The second installment of Lyric’s Ring Cycle proved an evening of glorious singing, moving drama, great conducting and orchestral playing.
Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago, a rousing performance both musically and dramatically.
Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2017-18 season on Saturday evening with a new production of Gluck’s Orphee et Eurydice in the 1774 Paris version.
Only the grand forces of Lyric Opera could bring such power and life to this production of My Fair Lady.
Lyric Opera of Chicago presented a highly anticipated joint recital featuring tenor Lawrence Brownlee, bass-baritone Eric Owens, and accompanist Craig Terry.
Lyric Opera of Chicago concluded its 2016-17 season with a spellbinding and wonderfully sung production of Tchaikovsky’s familiar Eugene Onegin.
Radvanovsky delivered a vocal and histrionic performance that should be the gold standard Norma for years.
LOC will offer a winning combination of uninspired repertoire and soporific casting.
Like our beloved Cubs, Chicago Lyric Opera is in the midst of a championship season.
Lyric Opera of Chicago rose to the challenges mightily in its first-ever performance of Les Troyens.
Stepping into the role of Dido will be American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.
Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor returned to Chicago Lyric Opera on Saturday evening.
I sat through the Met’s Ring twice, and it never occurred to me that any thought had gone into it at all.
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2016-17 season got off to an exciting start on Saturday night with Wagner’s Das Rheingold.
