Director Mary Birnbaum offers up a “Rigoletto” that’s partly revisionist yet has all the traditional pleasures of Italian ...

Lyric Opera’s “Rigoletto” runs through October 6 at Lyric Opera House, 20 North Wacker (at Madison). Performance dates are ...

While Rigoletto is the title character in this tale of wishful love and sordid betrayal in the depraved court of a ...

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the ...

Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of ...

Last Saturday was one of the most rewarding opening nights of the season Lyric Opera of Chicago has seen in many years. Our ...

As the maître d’ gracefully ushered me to my table, the air buzzed with anticipation. This wasn’t just a meal; it was a ...

Bass-baritone Aiden Smerud (last heard as a superlatively wicked Sparafucile in Opera in the Heights’ 2023 production of Rigoletto) as chaplain Raimondo, possesses a sonorous deep-dish voice just ...

When a rugby injury struck, talented Kiwi Jud Arthur decided to sing opera in Rigoletto for his supper instead!

The first official day of work for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new boss isn’t until October 14. Yet John Mangum, the 49-year-old arts administrator who is the opera company’s incoming general ...

It's the eternal question for all Chicagoans: "What should we do this weekend?" We're lucky to live in a city brimming with ...

Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of ...