Now she is back to mentor young artists, and OperaWire had a chance to speak with Seadia about her beginnings at Merola.

The James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards will take place on June 16, 2025, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. This year’s ceremony for the Restaurant and Chef Awards will see winners crowned ...

Chicago added two new James Beard award winners to its list of more than 50 winners Monday night at the Lyric Opera.

This Treme classic is being recognized for being "a cornerstone of Creole cuisine and Black American culture for eight ...

Carmen Lemons, left, and Lynn Walker, of Lem’s Bar-B-Q, pose for a portrait after winning the America’s Classics Award at the 2025 James Beard Awards at the Lyric Opera House on June 16, 2025, in ...

Domingo Hindoyan will take up the baton as music director for the Los Angeles Opera. He replaces James Conlon, who has served ...

Lyric Opera of the North, Loon, is putting on a production of Die Fledermaus at the NorShor Theatre on June 13 and 15. The show was chosen in celebration of the Duluth-based opera’s 20th ...

It is the fifth-ever world premiere by the ever-intrepid Chicago Opera Theater, which has built its identity alongside the much larger Lyric Opera of Chicago by focusing on the new, overlooked and ...

Commissioned by American Lyric Theater and produced by Chicago Opera Theater, it opened a three-performance world-premiere run at the Studebaker Theater this week. With the single caveat that it ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -In a Cantonese opera inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Chinese actor donning a blond wig spars on a Hong Kong stage with a man playing a double of Ukrainian President ...