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National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen

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Jazzmeia Horn
Jazzmeia Horn Quartet

Hailed as the next big carrier of straight-ahead jazz’s vocal tradition by the New York Times, Jazzmeia Horn is the winner of the 2013 Sarah…

Muti on stage
Muti & the CSO

Be transported to the landscapes of southern Spain with vivacious, dance-inspired works by Falla and Chabrier. The journey begins in Riccardo Muti’s native Italy with…

Riccardo Muti, Mitsuko Uchida
Muti, Uchida, Emperor & Eroica

Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti returns with Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, a work that shattered the symphonic conventions of its day, with themes of…

Clayton Stephenson
Clayton Stephenson, piano

Stephenson is not just a remarkable virtuoso, raves Gramophone, but a poet, a dramatist and a master story-teller. In addition to being the first Black…

New Faces Sing Broadway NOW
New Faces Sing Broadway NOW

The popular New Faces Sing Broadway series returns in Porchlight’s 30th Anniversary Season. Chicago’s up-and-coming talent join Broadway’s Adrian Aguilar for a 90-minute revue of…

Liszt & Bruckner 3
Liszt & Bruckner 3

Experiencing a Bruckner symphony is often compared to walking around inside a massive gothic cathedral. Step inside this sacred space and experience its awed silences,…

Kupinski Guitar Duo
Kupinski Guitar Duo

Ewa Jablczynska and Dariusz Kupinski, guitar  Praised for “elegance of sound…and maturity of interpretation” (Twoja Muza Magazine), the Kupinski Guitar Duo has forged a reputation…

Vilde Frang
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake

Swan Lake is the quintessential ballet score – a resplendent fable of dreamlike transformation. Tchaikovsky’s ballet suite caps a program of musical storytelling that includes…

Daniil Trifonov
Daniil Trifonov

Launching his tenure as the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence, Daniil Trifonov shows why he’s arguably the mightiest of the under-40 generation of superstar pianists (The New York…

The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro

Join Lyric Opera of Chicago for Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, an intimate study of human relationships and one of the greatest operas ever written.…

Vienna Boys Choir
Vienna Boys Choir: Christmas in Vienna

Cherished the world over for its purity of tone and centuries-old traditions, the Vienna Boys Choir conjures an Austrian landscape of snow-covered mountains and twinkling…

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