Overview
- Opening night on Nov. 21 at Chicago’s Civic Opera House featured the Lyric Opera’s 60-piece orchestra and chorus conducted by James Lowe.
- Early reports differ on the exact set count, with coverage listing 17 or 18 of the album’s 28 tracks performed.
- The engagement spans seven nights, with six additional performances scheduled through Nov. 30.
- A 30th-anniversary deluxe edition was released the same day, offering a 6LP box with over 80 minutes of unreleased 1996 tour audio plus new book, tarot cards and lithographs.
- A Chicago Tribune review describes a roughly 90-minute program with Corgan singing five pieces alongside four opera soloists, onstage orchestra and chorus, and newly commissioned animated visuals.