CHICAGO (3/11/2025) — In a historic partnership with Lyric Opera of Chicago, pioneering alternative rocker Billy Corgan reimagines his era-defining album with The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, with the World Premiere concerts A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness for seven performances only, November 21–30, 2025.

Iconic Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will harness all of Lyric’s technical and artistic forces — including the epic sound of the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Lyric Opera Chorus — for an immersive original sonic and visual experience that blurs the boundaries of opera, rock, and performance art. Featuring newly commissioned arrangements and orchestrations by Corgan and James Lowe, who also conducts, as well as costumes from House of Gilles by Gilles and Chloe Mendel, these historic concerts headlined by Corgan and featuring the classically trained voices of special guest artists, these concerts promise to further magnify the legend of the original album and expand the definition and intention of opera.

When asked by Q101’s Case Lowe [Executive Producer, Brian & Kenzie] about the emotional toll that revisiting and reconstructing these songs has had on Corgan, the iconic frontman noted, “anything we do that pertains to our past is really more of a celebration

A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness will be performed at Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, the evenings of November 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, and 30, at 7:30 p.m. Single tickets, starting at $49, go on sale on Friday, April 11 at 10:00 a.m. Tickets will be available at lyricopera.org.