Single tickets go on sale Thursday, June 26 at 10 a.m. Central Time for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s exciting 2025/26 Season.

Here in Chicago, we have a newly minted trio of one-act operas commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago from three separate composer-and-librettist teams working on aesthetically different planets.

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners will the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage beginning Sunday, March 30 for a limited run of five performances.

The James Beard Awards were held at the Lyric Opera of Chicago Monday, with restauranters, chefs and featured guests coming ...

Through April 8 at the Lyric Opera House, Chicago; lyricopera.org. Zachary Woolfe became The Times’s classical music critic in 2022, after serving as classical music editor since 2015.

On Sunday night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new musical director, Enrique Mazzola, gave his first major public performance in Millennium Park. In fact, this was the entire opera company’s ...

Lyric Opera’s ‘Cinderella’ delivers plenty of comedy amid glorious notes and sumptuous costumes For this revival, the company has brought back a fun, whimsical and heartwarming production of ...

Lyric Opera’s ‘Elixir of Love’ a fabulous dose of lighthearted escapism served up by dazzling cast Set in an Italian beach hotel in the 1950s, the production is heart-wrenching and high ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago Appoints Orchestra Veteran as New Leader. John Mangum, who helped guide the Houston Symphony through the turmoil of the pandemic, will serve as the company’s next general ...

The James Beard Awards were held at the Lyric Opera of Chicago Monday, with restauranters, chefs and featured guests coming ...

Samuel Insull, who had Chicago's Civic Opera House built in 1929, ran a multibillion-dollar utility empire out of Chicago until he lost it all during the Great Depression. Some say Insull's spirit ...