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Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced its 2024-25 season, its 70th, composed of four “classic operas” and two contemporary works not previously seen in Chicago, along with various special ...
Lyric Opera of Chicago is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma. Fox re-organized the company in 1956 under its present name.
The opera was then performed in 2024 by Opera Philadelphia at the Academy of Music. [4] This will be followed in 2025 by a production from the Aalto Musiktheater in Essen, directed by Anna-Sophie Mahler. The lead Role will be sung by Betsy Horne. Another production in 2025 will take place at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Nicole Heaston will ...
Built for the Chicago Civic Opera, it has been home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1954 and the Joffrey Ballet since 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of a complex with a 45-story office tower and two 22-story wings, known as the Civic Opera Building that opened November 4, 1929 and features Art Deco details.
Lyric Opera’s 2024-25 season All performances are at the Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and more information, 816-471-7344 or kcopera.org .
Chicago Grand Opera Company (1910–1915), Chicago's first resident opera company, produced four seasons of opera in Chicago's Auditorium Theater from the fall of 1910 through November 1915. Chicago Opera Association, produced seven seasons of grand opera in Chicago's Auditorium Theater from 1915 to 1921, bankrupted by the soprano Mary Garden
For many, the return to the opera house has been a risk willingly taken — in service of the palpable human desire for live connection and an overwhelming need for the kind of emotional ...
The opera house is the permanent home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the home of the Joffrey Ballet since 2021. Samuel Insull envisioned and hired the design team for building a new opera house to serve as the home for the Chicago Civic Opera, as the company was called. The building is shaped like a huge chair, sometimes referred to as ...