Lyric Opera of Chicago will premiere an opera by Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan for the 30th anniversary of one of the band's seminal albums. Driving the news: Lyric Opera on Tuesday announced ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago unveiled the lineup for its 2025-2026 season Tuesday, featuring a blend of tradition and modern musical concerts. The new season includes both "Madama Butterfly" and a ...

The Smashing Pumpkins‘ beloved third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, turns 30 in October, and to celebrate they’re bringing it to Chicago’s Lyric Opera. “A Night of Mellon ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all picked by the previous general director, Anthony Freud. The current ...

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 ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago laid out its 2025-26 season at a presentation at the Civic Opera House on Tuesday, the first season to be announced under the direction of John Mangum, Lyric’s newly ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all picked by the previous general director, Anthony ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all picked by the previous general director, Anthony Freud.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all picked by general director John Mangum’s predecessor, Anthony Freud ...