Lyric Opera of Chicago has released video footage of Justin Austin performing 'What Makes a Man a Man' from Terence Blanchard's CHAMPION below. Ahead of his fateful fight with Benny "Kid" Paret, Emile ...

The music of Terence Blanchard has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago with his first opera: Champion, an "opera in jazz" inspired by the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, a professional boxer from ...

Dominick Chenes, tenor, singing Riccardo in A Masked Ball with the Academy of Vocal Arts Credit: Courtesy of The Academy of Vocal Arts If all those ads for Verdi’s A Masked Ball have you wondering ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s ...

When folks have no background in the arts, too often all they see in culture is "cult": small bands of devotees ritualistically going to look at and listen to often wild-eyed adherents of certain ...

Board chairperson Jo Anne Christian said Thursday that the planned sale of the complex, which opened in 2000, is meant to gain efficiency and sustainability. The building, with soundproof studios and ...