Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is set to present the second Discovery Concert of the 2025-26 season titled, “In America’s Embrace: Celebrating Immigrant Composers.” The program, set for Jan. 18, 2026 at 3 p.m. local time, will include opera, musical theater and songs by composers who fled their native countries and came to America—some as children, others later in life—finding safety, {…}

The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) has announced a new opportunity for audiences to get a unique look inside the creative process this fall with a public piano/vocal workshop of “Trusted,” a new opera in development by composer Aaron Israel Levin and librettist Marella Martin Koch. The workshop, part of COT’s acclaimed Vanguard Initiative, will culminate in a public concert reading of the first {…}