Lyric Opera’s ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ goes beyond Fridamania
Kahlo arrives on the Lyric mainstage this month when the company presents “El último sueño de Frida y Diego,” with music by Gabriela Lena Frank to a libretto by Pulitzer...
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Ravinia Festival this summer: The CSO, Paul Simon and Ricky Martin in a brand new Pavilion
The Ravinia Festival’s wide-ranging 2026 season celebrates the newly refurbished Pavilion.
Review: Back from a tour with Mäkelä, the CSO delivers a ‘Rite’ to remember
Music director-designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the orchestra in an all-Paris program, including Milhaud’s “Le Boeuf sur le Toit,” Gershwin’s "An American in Paris" and Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring."
Chicago Symphony’s next season: More Mäkelä, less new music and a bunch of Beethoven
The CSO's 2026-27 season — the last before Klaus Mäkelä becomes full-time music director in fall 2027 — opens with a concert with violinist Hilary Hahn in September.
Review: Klaus Mäkelä leads a heroic program at the CSO
These concerts are double-barreled programs of symphonic epics — both about heroes, and both given early U.S. premieres by the CSO — that he and the orchestra will soon bring...
Frequency Festival, Chicago’s experimental music haven, returns to a changed city
This year’s Frequency Festival lineup is characteristically difficult to sum up.
The Chicago Symphony is the world’s busiest orchestra — how that’s counted and what that means
The annual list by British publication Bachtrack ranked the CSO as No. 1 busiest orchestra in the world in 2025. But with any such list, it's difficult to get a...
Review: Another prodigy has taken the classical world, and the CSO, by storm. Is that a good thing?
Precocious artists are all over the Chicago Symphony’s program this weekend. Mozart’s child-prodigy past needs no introduction, and Japanese violinist Himari, 14, is enough of a sensation to get a...
Yes, that was Chicago conductor Giancarlo Guerrero performing with Bad Bunny
Four minutes into Bad Bunny’s halftime show during the Super Bowl on Sunday, the camera panned over two rows of grinning string players. Leading them with graceful, sweeping beats and...
Review: Conductor Salonen shows off his range with the Chicago Symphony
This week's program of a new work and Debussy stands in contrast to last week's Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4.