Chicago Chorale tackles Beethoven’s intimidating Missa solemnis with the help of SOPRF. Here's to their audacity.

Philip Blackburn goes big, big, big and sensual on the astronomic Ghostly Psalms.

The Lyric Opera goes mainstream with Show Boat. But what is more controversial, the racial undertones or the Broadway numbers?

To celebrate John Adams’s 65th birthday, Chicago’s Palomar Ensemble explores the American composer’s large-scale works.

Three ace Chicago ensembles toast a Russian composer who finds God in the numbers.

International Contemporary Ensemble pays tribute to a titan of improvisation by tracing his influence.

Two friends hatch a plan for a new kind of opera while at a birthday party for a billionaire.

Evanston’s annual fest brings a bundle of chamber music masterpieces paired with less familiar works.

There’s a lot of war and swordfighting in opera. Meet the man who arms the cast.

Change? Econonic innovation? Hey, at least it happened in the world of classical in 2011.