Theater producer Cameron Mackintosh has been bringing long runs of grand theatrical spectacles to Chicago for nearly half a century now. Delivering a big night out for regular folks remains a ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary musical, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is now playing at ...

This production in the Fine Arts Building transplants Shakespeare-via-Salieri’s comical opera to a chi-chi, “White Lotus”-style beach resort.

While the idea of a summer opera festival located in the Gateway City may not sound like the most obvious idea, it’s a setting that has proven extraordinarily fruitful. Every May and June since 1976, ...

Pianist Eric Sedgwick plays during a rehearsal of "This House" on Monday. For half a century, cries of “bravo” and "brava" have rung out from the Loretto-Hilton Center at Webster University, signaling ...

Fifty years after it was founded, the Michigan Opera Theatre has a new name that firmly roots it in Detroit: Detroit Opera. The new name, announced Monday, comes as the opera company continues to ...

Wayne Brown, who recently retired, started his career in Detroit before returning there to run a transformed Detroit Opera. By David Allen Yuval Sharon’s wildly innovative stagings, already celebrated ...