Chicago Classical Review

Hershey Felder as Beethoven. Hershey Felder as Chopin. Hershey Felder as Gershwin and Bernstein.

Chicago audiences have seen them…

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

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

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

The…

The Grant Park Music Festival, which kicks off its 77th season of outdoor concerts Wednesday night, is…

Early June traditionally provides a bit of a respite on Chicago’s bustling music scene, a brief lull between the end…

The performance of Bach’s epic St. Matthew Passion last month was the first local fruit of Soli Deo Gloria, the…

When John Nelson gives the downbeat to Bach’s epic St. Matthew Passion at Saint Vincent de Paul…

Remember “CNN opera”?

In the 1980s and 1990s, when John Adams was producing works like Nixon in China and The…

For a while, it looked like the American tour for Bach Collegium Japan was not going to happen at all…