Pumpkins' lead singer Billy Corgan will be joined by Lyric's orchestra, chorus and as a group of operatically trained soloists for a "musical-dramatic experience” based on music from the band's famed album “Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness.

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.

Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins never thought he would have a family. He told PEOPLE in a recent interview that before finding his now-wife, the fashion designer Chloe Mendel, Billy Corgan had “pretty much given up” on starting a family.