Chicago Classical Review

To survive twenty years in the non-profit world is no lean feat. The Chicago Philharmonic, a superb orchestra comprised mainly…

Over its 27-year history, first as His Majestie’s Clerkes and currently as Bella Voce, the a cappella vocal ensemble has…

A successful philosophical opera? Get real.

Of course, Richard Strauss managed to write a masterpiece with his Nietzschean tone poem…

 Philip Glass came to Chicago Friday night to perform his music at the Museum of Contemporary Art, an event which…

The big news to come out of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s annual meeting this week was that the orchestra managed—just—to…

Back in the days when the Lyric Opera’s idea of performing Handel opera was to have fading opera stars…

The Riccardo Muti era doesn’t officially begin until next fall but you wouldn’t know it from the palpable sense of…

Set your DVRs for 1 p.m. Sunday on WTTW-Ch. 11 for the first season installment of Keeping Score, the superb…

For most opera companies their first season, is, well, their first season.

But for Chicago Opera Vanguard, the…

For an example of the internationalization of classical music, one could hardly do better than the appearance…