CHICAGO — A music mash-up that you may not expect is happening at the Lyric Opera of Chicago: a collaboration of classical musicians, along with the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan. With 30 million albums sold worldwide, Smashing Pumpkins remains one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful bands of the 1990s, contributing greatly to the explosion of alternative rock. In 1995, Corgan and the Pumpkins’ double album “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Now, 30 years later, Corgan is collaborating with Lyric Opera to recreate the album with a full chorus and orchestra. For more information, go to: www.lyricopera.org Corgan joined WGN Morning News Tuesday to tell us all about the collab. Watch the full interview in the video player above Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.
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Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan on teaming up with Lyric Opera of Chicago
