Chuck Bontrager, Steve Roberts, and Don Stiernberg While it might not be a surprise that an opera such as Bel Canto uses unfamiliar folk...

Channing Philbrick, Co-Assistant Principal Trumpet, doubles in Bel Canto on trumpet and pututo, a maring conch shell fitted with a wooden...

Bel Canto composer Jimmy Lopez heavily features our Lyric Opera Percussion section who fly from instrument to instrument banging, bowing,...

Before our exciting world premiere of Bel Canto on December 7, author Ann Patchett graciously took time out of her whirlwind evening to...

Walt Preucil, cello and William Koehler, piano "...a great way to showcase the many talented members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra. Many...

I recently had the pleasure to sit down with Bruce Ridge, Chairman of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians...

There is something that attracts musicians to marathons. At least half a dozen members of our orchestra have run a marathon over the...

Most people don't know what goes on behind the scenes at an opera house. If they did, they might know that vultures smell really...

Those of us who know Robert Johnson know him for his vibrant personality, quick wit, and his beautiful horn playing. What you might not...

One at a time, sometimes two. Ok, there was that one time where there were three cats living in my house at the same time. And to be...

Doug Waddell with PSG alumni, June 7, 2015 Where do you find Doug Waddell, assistant principal percussionist at Lyric Opera, when he’s...

What makes Bill Denton, principal trumpet, exceptional in the Lyric Opera Orchestra? Naturally, his outstanding trumpet playing, but in...

Yes, the title is shamelessly lifted from Liam Neeson's character in the movie Taken. No, the particular set of skills being addressed...

It’s a memorial on Des Plaines St., namesake to one of our sister opera companies in Chicago and a busy brewpub in the West loop. ...

During the summers I am the associate concertmaster of the Glimmerglass Opera Festival Orchestra in upstate New York. This year's busy...

I was born in Minnesota, where my father was a violinist in the Minnesota Orchestra. He had also played in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland...

No, folks, I am not having a mid-life crisis! I am simply helping maintain what has become a long-standing family tradition, arguably as...

The following are excerpts from a recently published ARTSBLOG by Americans for the Arts: Every year the Indiana University Lilly Family...

If you look into the orchestra pit and take note of the strange contortions into which we twist to play our various instruments, you will...

As I sit here right now, I am aware of a sharp pain in my neck when I turn to the left, lower back tenderness, and a persistent cramping...