The Elmhurst Symphony Association, in partnership with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, will present “Majestic Bruckner” on March 9-10.
2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Austrian comp.
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 the U.S. Virgin Islands who threw a fatal punch in the boxing ring in 1962. Check out production photos here!
“In ‘Champion’ we see how Blackness, boxing and manhood can unexpectedly, and eloquently, be expressed in the expansive genre of opera.” This observation by Professor Naomi André, in a splendid