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Blue
11/16 - 12/1/2024


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Video: BLUE By Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson At Chicago Lyric Opera


by A.A. Cristi - November 19, 2024

An intimate look at family, faith, and community in times of grief and healing, Blue makes its Chicago premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago from November 16 to December 1, 2024. See highlights from the production....

Lyric Opera of Chicago To Celebrate The Life Of Sir Andrew Davis In February Concert


by A.A. Cristi - November 04, 2024

Lyric Opera has announced a concert on February 15, 2025, celebrating the life and career of Sir Andrew Davis, featuring performances by renowned artists and the Lyric Opera Orchestra....

Video: Verdi's RIGOLETTO at Lyric Opera of Chicago


by Blair Ingenthron - September 15, 2024

Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago through October 6, 2024. Check out video footage from the production here!...

PATTI LUPONE: A LIFE IN NOTES is Coming to Lyric Opera Of Chicago


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 11, 2024

Patti LuPone's career and contributions to musical theater will be celebrated at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....

Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater Join Forces for Free Panel On Two Operas Based On The Same Story


by A.A. Cristi - August 28, 2024

Chicago's two major opera companies – Lyric Opera of Chicago (Lyric) and Chicago Opera Theater (COT) – will join forces for a unique discussion on two operas based on the same source material: Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera Fidelio – to be presented at Lyric from September 26 through October 10, ...

BRANDEN & JAMES of America's Got Talent Announced At Chicago's Davenport's This June


by A.A. Cristi - May 14, 2024

BRANDEN & JAMES from America's Got Talent perform at Chicago's Davenport's on June 20. Enjoy a night of epic music and fun stories with the duo, featuring Branden's past with Lyric Opera of Chicago....

Sir Andrew Davis, Lyric Opera of Chicago Music Director Emeritus, Has Passed Away


by Blair Ingenthron - April 21, 2024

The renowned conductor served as Lyric's music director and principal conductor for two decades, with an illustrious career that spanned the globe and included leading significant orchestras on several continents....

Video: Watch 'Triumphal March' from Verdi's AIDA at Lyric Opera of Chicago


by Blair Ingenthron - March 24, 2024

For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama Aida has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago through April 7, 2024. Watch footage from the production's 'Triumphal March' here!...

Video: Watch a Trailer for Lyric Opera of Chicago's Production of Verdi's AIDA


by Blair Ingenthron - March 10, 2024

For the first time in more than a decade, Verdi’s romantic and political drama Aida returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago, March 9 to April 7, 2024. Watch footage from the production here!...

Video: Enrique Mazzola on the Epic Music of Verdi's AIDA


by Robert Diamond - March 05, 2024

'There is only AIDA that is like AIDA.' From epic choral scenes to intimate duets, Music Director Enrique Mazzola shares why Giuseppe Verdi's opera is unlike any other. See the Maestro conduct his first-ever AIDA, opening March 9 at Lyric Opera of Chicago. ...

Past Shows


Karen Slack, the Lyric Unlimited Artist-in-Residence for the 2024/25 season, presents a three-part recital series at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, starting with Of Thee ...

Fidelio
9/26 - 10/10/2024


Beethoven's Fidelio, a powerful political thriller, will be presented at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from September 26 to October 10, 2024. Directed by Matthew ...

Rigoletto
9/14 - 10/6/2024


Rigoletto, a classic tragedy by Giuseppe Verdi, will grace the stage of the Lyric Opera of Chicago from September 14 to October 6, 2024. Conducted ...


Patti LuPone takes the stage for a one-night-only concert at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, presenting a collection of songs that reflect her remarkable career ...

Aida
Aida
3/9 - 4/7/2024


Opera at its grandest! Love and betrayal intertwine in a captivating tale. Aida, the Ethiopian princess, finds herself torn between her love for Radamès, the ...

Champion
Champion
1/27 - 2/11/2024


Lyric Opera of Chicago welcomes Champion, the first opera written by composer Terence Blanchard. Based on a true story and featuring a libretto by Michael ...

Cinderella
Cinderella
1/21 - 2/10/2024


Rossini’s enchanting fairytale heroine returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage in classic style. Cinderella (La Cenerentola) tells the story of the downtrodden daughter ...

Jenůfa
Jenůfa
11/15 - 11/26/2023


Janáček’s Jenůfa is a dark and stunning masterpiece, both musically and dramatically. In this profoundly moving story, the Kostelnička secretly drowns her foster-daughter Jenůfa’s illegitimate ...

West Side Story
6/3 - 6/25/2023


West Side Story, a modern Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of gang violence, is a powerful and timeless musical. The music was composed ...

The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid
4/19 - 4/30/2023


The Joffrey Ballet closes its 67th season with the long-awaited Chicago premiere of John Neumeier ’s beautifully haunting interpretation of The Little Mermaid. A gripping ...

Singin' In The Rain
4/1 - 4/28/2023


The "Greatest Movie Musical of All Time" is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends Betty Comden and Adolph Green, from their original award-winning screenplay ...

The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
12/3 - 12/27/2022


The Joffrey Ballet’s critically-acclaimed reimagined classic, The Nutcracker by Tony Award®-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon , returns to the Lyric Opera House, 20 North Upper Wacker ...

Fiddler On The Roof
9/17 - 10/6/2022


Rich with musical hits you know and love, including “Tradition,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were A Rich Man,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” and “To Life (L’Chaim!),” FIDDLER ...

Lyric Opera's Florencia en el Amazonas


Join Lyric Opera of Chicago on a journey down the Amazon with the company premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish-language work to ...

Lyric Opera's The Magic Flute
Lyric Opera's The Magic Flute
11/3 - 11/27/2021


The Magic Flute tells the story of a princes valiant quest leads to love at first sight. But to prove his worth for marriage, he ...

Lyric Opera's Macbeth
Lyric Opera's Macbeth
9/17 - 10/9/2021


September 17 @ 7pmSeptember 23 @ 2pmSeptember 30 @ 7pmOctober 3 @ 2pmOctober 6 @ 2pmOctober 9 @ 7:30 Lyrics riveting season-opener is the inaugural ...

Lyric Opera's The Elixir of Love


Sep 26 @ 2pm, Sep 29 @ 2pm, Oct 2 @ 7:30pm, Oct 5 @ 7pm, Oct 8 @7pmNo operatic hero is more endearing than ...


Sole e Amore (Sun and Love) - This engaging virtual recital will be curated, hosted, and accompanied by Enrique Mazzola, Lyric's music director designate, in ...


Pasión Latina - The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center will present a free concert celebrating music of the Spanish-speaking world, with acclaimed ...

42ND STREET
5/29 - 6/21/2020


A big…bright…bold dance musical. It’s the ultimate backstage showbiz fairy tale when a stage struck understudy becomes an overnight star. Filled with a hit parade ...

The Light in the Piazza
The Light in the Piazza
12/14 - 12/29/2019


What do you get when you cross a world-renowned, Tony-nominated artist with a six-time Tony Award-winning musical? Surefire theatrical magic - and that's what audiences ...

WEST SIDE STORY
5/3 - 6/2/2019


West Side Story, a modern Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of gang violence, is a powerful and timeless musical. The music was composed ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
4/27 - 5/20/2018


One of the greatest stories ever told comes to life in the groundbreaking, iconic rock opera that reinvented musical theater for the modern age. With ...

Family Day at Lyric


Lyric Unlimited is excited to offer a day of behind-the-scenes fun and exploration with our inaugural Family Day at Lyric, a wonderful way to share ...

Fellow Travelers
Fellow Travelers
3/17 - 3/25/2018


At the height of the McCarthy era in 1950s Washington, D.C., recent college graduate Timothy Laughlin is eager to join the crusade against communism. A ...

Faust
Faust
3/3 - 3/21/2018


Who doesn’t long to be young again? It happens for the aging philosopher Faust — he sells his soul to the devil and, in exchange, ...

Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte
2/17 - 3/16/2018


Subtitled “The School for Lovers,” this beloved Mozart comedy is a probing look into romantic relationships. It starts out with a cynical philosopher’s bet that ...

Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein


His larger-than-life musical genius brought us countless treasures that built a bridge between musical theater, song, and classical music, and personified an era of American ...

I Puritani
I Puritani
2/4 - 2/28/2018


Of all opera composers, none glorified the human voice more than Bellini. His final opera was I Puritani, in which a soprano, tenor, baritone, and ...

Piotr Beczala in Recital


Lyric is proud to present world-renowned tenor Piotr Becza?a, one of the most sought-after artists of our time, in an intimate recital of opera and ...

Turandot
Turandot
12/5 - 1/27/2018


Turandot, Puccini’s final opera and one of the biggest blockbusters in the repertoire, transports us to a fantasy of ancient China. There the regal, forbidding ...

The Pearl Fishers
The Pearl Fishers
11/19 - 12/10/2017


For sheer transcendent beauty, Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers has few rivals in the entire repertoire. The opera’s famed duet for tenor and baritone is a ...

Die Walküre
Die Walküre
11/1 - 11/30/2017


After the triumph of Das Rheingold in 2016/17, Lyric continues the thrilling journey through Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle with Die Walküre. This is the most ...

Rigoletto
Rigoletto
10/7 - 11/3/2017


There’s no character in opera more powerfully dramatic than the court jester Rigoletto, whose acid tongue and all-consuming desire for revenge lead to catastrophe for ...

The Scorpions' Sting
The Scorpions' Sting
10/14 - 10/16/2017


Lyric’s annual family opera performance is back with a Chicago premiere that will capture the imagination! While lost in the desert, a group of archaeology ...

Orphée et Eurydice
Orphée et Eurydice
9/23 - 10/15/2017


One of opera’s most beautiful masterpieces, Gluck’s exquisite drama introduces us to Orpheus, the poet and musician whose every word and note communicate the most ...

MY FAIR LADY
4/28 - 5/21/2017


Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel


Swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. But all too soon, they fall on hard times and unbearable ...

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
4/25 - 5/25/2014


The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious ...

Oklahoma!
Oklahoma!
5/4 - 5/19/2013


The 'G2K' Getting To Know Series: Uniquely adapted musicals specifically for youth performers. Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, ...

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