Chicago Opera Theater announced a scaled-back 2024-25 season on Tuesday, its first programmed by new general director ...

The three decades between my concerts of Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony suggest we are continually fighting similar wars, ...

Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become ...

Mkel, 28, became the principal guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2018-19. He then became chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic in 2020-2021 and music director of the ...

The double basses, contrabassoon and pipe organ of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra groan out a sustained double C. Then Esteban Batallán, principal trumpet of the CSO, raises his 1955 Vincent Bach ...

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through Sauli Zinovjev’s Batteria at Symphony Center’s Orchestra Hall on Thursday night. It was the maestro’s first turn at the podium ...

On Tuesday, the worst-kept secret in Chicago officially spilled, as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced the selection of 28-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä as its next music ...

Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891. A Finn who turned 28 in ...

Chicagoans can geek out at the annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, dance the night away with Windy City Soul Club and ...

By Javier C. Hernández The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which has been led for decades by conducting titans including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Muti, announced Tuesday that its ...

"It's a wonderful opportunity for me ... to experience the vibrant arts scene that everyone talks about when they talk about ...

CHICAGO (CBS/AP) --The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced its new music director, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä, who will become the youngest person to ever hold the position in the ...