The Listeners,” the wild new opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Varek, begins with a coyote dancing ...

The opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follows a schoolteacher who is plagued by a sound called “the Hum,” reportedly a real-life phenomenon that remains ...

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners will the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage beginning Sunday, March 30 for a limited ...

Heaston, a Chicago native, is making her long-overdue Lyric debut as Claire. Both a multi-dimensional singer and first-rate ...

The English-language opera will receive its fourth production worldwide and second in the United States when Lyric Opera of Chicago, one of the work’s three co-commissioners, presents it March ...

Lots of operas have many characters, including some principal ones, who you might not like. But it’s unusual when an opera is ...

In desperation, she jons a community organization, The Listeners, formed to discover the origin of the noise and destroy it. The group becomes frighteningly cult-like, ultimately leading to ...

"The Listeners" comes from renowned composer Missy Mazzoli, who has been called the "post-millennial Mozart." And this show is about to open at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Missy Mazzoli herself and ...

"The Listeners," a thrilling and unconventional opera, is hitting the stage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago this weekend. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Tony Robbins ...

A charismatic cult leader, lurid affairs, weed and ample cursing: It may sound like the type of bingeable plot you’d find on Netflix or a podcast feed. But instead, it’s the makings of a buzzy ...

While not an opera, this concert will showcase the Lyric’s stellar orchestra and chorus in a program of “masterworks by Puccini, Rossini, Bizet and more.” While I’m sure it’ll be great, it’s only set ...