Chicago Classical Review

Granted, opera isn’t always the most decorous of art forms, with adultery, betrayal, and vengeance…

 After nearly fifty years of historically informed musical performance, the traits that have enlivened 17^th and 18^th-century repertoire are as…

 Angela Hewitt takes a graceful walk across an empty Symphony Center stage for her overdue debut here Sunday…

It was eighty-five years ago that a sleazy clarinet solo and George Gershwin’s piano crashed into musical history, the premiere…

Under the energetic and imaginative leadership of artistic director Stephen Burns, Fulcrum Point has been breaking down barriers between musical…

Felix Mendelssohn is clearly the most-honored composer of 2009 by virtue of the fact that he would have…

Commissioned by the BBC,  Owen Wingrave has a certain historical significance as the only Benjamin Britten opera to  premiere on…

 In an age of internationalization, it’s almost become musicologically incorrect to ascribe an affinity and inherent aptitude to musicians when…

 The outward theme for the Chicago Sinfonietta’s season-closing concert was music inspired by water or the sea. But…

Peter Brook’s La Tragedie de Carmen is not your grandfather’s Carmen. Or, at several points, Bizet’s…