Production maximizes power of Puccini's music and drama — filling out characters, heightening emotions, enhancing humor and ...

Director Melanie Bacaling’s staging certainly has its heart more in April than March, especially given the presence of a ...

Love burns bright in the City of Light as Puccini’s La Bohème returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago on Saturday, March 15, 2025.

Juneau Lyric Opera is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend with Johann Strauss’ operetta “Die Fledermaus,” the same ...

The opera, which marries the music of Antonio Vivaldi with a new libretto by Sarah Ruhl, was still on solid ground musically ...

Pumpkins' lead singer Billy Corgan will be joined by Lyric's orchestra, chorus and as a group of operatically trained ...

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” While still teeming with the same brooding bloodlust offered by other iterations of the ...

Fashion looks from audience members at the Lyric Opera of Chicago prove that creative expression is not limited to the stage.

Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan has teamed up with Lyric Opera of Chicago to turn Smashing Pumpkins' ...

Smashing Pumpkins released their third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in October 1995. It became the most successful album of their career, topping the Billboard 200 Albums chart ...

Smashing Pumpkins perform onstage at the Double Door, Chicago, Illinois, March 5, 1995. Pictured are, from left, D'Arcy ...

"I am excited for both fans of my music and traditional opera fans to hear some truly inspired work," says Corgan.