by Mark Thomas Ketterson | June 18, 2026The Opera Festival of Chicago Pairs “La Boheme” with a Rarer Paris-Set Masterwork Sasha Gerritson, the festival's general director, shares their plans for the summer season, titled "Bohemian Tragedy," and discusses the strategy behind it.
by Mark Thomas Ketterson | November 5, 2025Lyric Opera Revives “Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci” in a Double Bill of Italian Opera The classic Elijah Moshinsky stagings of Mascagni and Leoncavallo’s works follow the opera's season-opening mounting of Cherubini’s "Medea."