"The first thing I said to Lyric was I don’t want this to be ‘opera goes rock,’" Corgan told Fox 32 Chicago during a recent ...

Smashing Pumpkins mainman Billy Corgan is taking his band's classic album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness to the opera in celebration of its 30th anniversary. The Lyric Opera in the band's ...

Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan has teamed up with Lyric Opera of Chicago to turn Smashing Pumpkins' decade-defining double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness into a whole opera.

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan is transforming his “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” album into an opera airing in Chicago for a limited time. The rocker joined Fox Chicago’s Paris Schutz to ...

Smashing Pumpkins perform onstage at the Double Door, Chicago, Illinois, March 5, 1995. Pictured are, from left, D'Arcy Wretzky, on bass guitar, Billy Corgan, on guitar, Jimmy Chamberlin, on drums, ...

The tour will celebrate 30 years of “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” and the 25 years of “Machina/The Machines of God ...

and the world premiere of a new “alt rock opera” penned by Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame, titled “A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness” (Nov. 21-30). Corgan was in the ...

I don't want it to feel like opera goes rock 'n' roll." The world premiere of "A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness" will be on stage at Lyric Opera House in late November. Also ...

The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his band's era-defining "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" by going small, and leaving his fellow Pumpkins behind.

Corgan has also partnered with Chicago’s Lyric Opera to present A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness, a special seven-performance series scheduled for Nov. 21-30. Tickets for the tour ...

Billy Corgan and the Machines of God will perform music from the Smashing Pumpkins albums Mellon Collie and the Infinite ...