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 ...

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 ...

A butterfly’s journey The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, invites visitors to experience its “Señorita ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- John Magnum, who has an extensive résumé of leadership roles at performing arts organizations around the country, was named the new general director, president, and chief ...

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

In the United States he has directed *La bohome* at Chicago's Lyric Opera and *Rigoletto* at Boston's Lyric Opera. He has also directed in Shanghai and Tokyo and at such festivals as the Bergamo ...

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