As temperatures drop, music venues are heating up with great concerts and opera productions available throughout the neighborhood and Chicago in the coming months.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
UChicago Presents<\/strong><\/p>\n University of Chicago Presents has a wealth of concerts coming up in the new year, including two featuring the luminous voices of Trio Mediaeval. On Jan. 23, at Rockefeller Chapel, these Scandinavian women will sing the Tournai Mass as well as music by Hildegard von Bingen. On Apr. 12, at the Logan Center, they will perform Medieval English motets, Scandinavian hymns and contemporary works.<\/p>\n The popular Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Chamber Music at the University of Chicago series continues with two CSO chamber events coming up. On Feb. 6, at Mandel Hall, members of the CSO will perform music by Christopher Stark and Esa-Pekka Salonen as well as the Piano Quintet in G Minor by Sibelius. On Apr. 19, at the Logan Center, their program includes works by Molly Joyce, Annie Gosfield, Chen Yi, Tilmann Dehnhard, Villa-Lobos and Farrenc.<\/p>\n The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble will give a concert at Mandel Hall on Apr. 17, featuring music of Mozart and Beethoven. Keyboard concerts are also scheduled for the new year. Organist Lynne Davis performs at Bond Chapel on Feb. 15 and pianist Simone Dinnerstein offers music of Rameau, Bach, Lasser and Jarrett at the Logan Center on Mar. 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n For more information, visit ChicagoPresents.UChicago.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The Grossman Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n The Grossman Ensemble has two concerts left in its 2025\u201326 season. March 6 and May 22, at the Logan Center, will find the group presenting concerts made up entirely of world premieres followed by a reception where composers greet their audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n For more information, visit CCCC.UChicago.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Lyric Opera of Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n The second half of Lyric Opera of Chicago\u2019s 2025\u201326 season begins with \u201cSalome,” which has six performances between Jan. 25 and Feb. 14. Soprano Jennifer Holloway sings the title role in this opera by Richard Strauss with a libretto based on Oscar Wilde\u2019s play. (Elena Stikhina was originally announced to sing this role but has withdrawn because of her pregnancy.) Brandon Jovanovich and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner also star in this production, which is new to Chicago, originally directed by Sir David McVicar (Julia Burbach is the revival director). Tomas Netopil conducts.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cCosi fan tutte,\u201d Mozart\u2019s battle of the sexes, opens on Feb. 1 with six performances concluding on Feb 15. It\u2019s updated to a glamorous seaside resort in the 1930s and stars Ana Maria Martinez and Rod Gilfry, with Lyric music director Enrique Mazzola conducting.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nine performances of Puccini\u2019s \u201cMadama Butterfly\u201d open March 14 and run through April 12. The Lyric premiere of \u201cEl \u00faltimo sue\u00f1o de Frida y Diego,\u201d a recent opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz which premiered in San Diego in 2022, runs from March 21 to April 4.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n To learn of other Lyric performances, including a one-night-only concert by Ren\u00e9e Fleming on Feb. 5, visit LyricOpera.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Chicago Symphony Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n The CSO has a wide range of concerts in the new year, including a pair led by Esa-Pekka Salonen at the end of January and the beginning of February. From Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, he leads a concert of Bruckner\u2019s Symphony No. 4, \u201cRomantic\u201d and Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Daniil Trifonov. On Feb. 5\u20137, Salonen conducts Debussy\u2019s \u201cLa mer\u201d and \u201cImages\u201d as well as Gabriella Smith\u2019s \u201cLost Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 returns to the podium to conduct \u201cLemmink\u00e4inen\u201d by Sibelius and \u201cEin Heldenleben\u201d by Richard Strauss on Feb. 19\u201321. There\u2019s an opera night with Riccardo Muti on March 19\u201321 with music by Verdi, Giordano, Catalani and Puccini. The following week, Muti conducts Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 3, \u201cPolish,\u201d as well as Nino Rota\u2019s music from \u201cThe Leopard\u201d and a suite from \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Other guests performing at Symphony Center in the coming months include conductors Jacob Hrusa, Paavo J\u00e4rvi and Karina Canellakis. Pekka Kuusisto does double duty, serving as both conductor and violin soloist. Evgeny Kissin will perform piano concertos by Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rimsky-Korsakov.\u00a0<\/p>\n For more information, visit CSO.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Music of the Baroque<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFathers and Sons\u201d is a Jan. 24\u201330 concert featuring the work of J.S. Bach\u2019s Orchestral Suite No. 4 and that of his son, C.P.E. Bach\u2019s Flute Concerto in G Major, at various locations. There is also flute music by W.A. Mozart and his father, Leopold Mozart. \u201cBaroque Blockbusters\u201d includes music by Bach, Handel and Purcell March 1\u20136.\u00a0<\/p>\n For more information and locations, visit Baroque.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Haymarket and Chicago Opera Theater<\/strong><\/p>\n Chicago Opera Theater presents the Chicago premiere of \u201cDer Silbersee\u2014ein Winterm\u00e4chen\u201d (The Silverlake\u2014a Winter\u2019s Fairy Tale) by Kurt Weill with libretto by Georg Kaiser from March 4-8 at the Studebaker Theater. COT and the Illinois Holocaust Museum are also offering a free event related to the opera: \u201c1933: The Turning Point\u2014Art, Oppression and Resistance\u201d on Feb. 9 at the Harold Washington Library.\u00a0<\/p>\n