Chicago Classical Review

At a time when opera presenters are doing all they can to appear more populist and approachable, one reads countless…

Jan 02, 2012
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1. Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Verdi’s Otello

With Riccardo Muti’s inaugural season as Chicago Symphony Orchestra music…

Dec 22, 2011
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Forty years ago when composer William Ferris and tenor John Vorrasi founded the William Ferris Chorale they weren’t thinking about…

Nov 29, 2011
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Hilary Hahn made an acclaimed recording debut at age 16 in music of Bach and over her successful career the…

Oct 20, 2011
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Tenor Matthew Polenzani was looking at two important debuts in Chicago last week.

The first was one that local music…

Sep 28, 2011
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If William Mason is melancholy or wistful about leaving the opera company that has been the center of his life…

Sep 24, 2011
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Hershey Felder as Beethoven. Hershey Felder as Chopin. Hershey Felder as Gershwin and Bernstein.

Chicago audiences have seen them…

Sep 22, 2011
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For most small arts organizations, the odds of surviving to celebrate a silver anniversary fall somewhere between slim and…

Sep 20, 2011
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The final two weeks of the Grant Park Music Festival are hardly going out with a whimper: Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony…

Aug 11, 2011
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The Lyric Opera’s move into Broadway musicals — and away from American opera — raises questions of artistic vision

The…

Jul 03, 2011
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