Happy New Year and welcome to your first edition of Lyric Notes for 2016! We hope you enjoy the news about and exclusive insights into all the exciting productions yet to come on Lyric's main stage as we head into the second half of a spectacular season.
Thank you for being such an important part of the Lyric family. We look forward to welcoming you to the opera house again soon.
Lyric is excited to share that Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York has selected the world-premiere production of Bel Canto to be part of the prestigious Great Performances television series on PBS....
Bel Canto had its world premiere at Lyric on December 7 (Lyric’s first world premiere in over a decade!) and performances continue through January 17. See for yourself what the critics are saying!...
Lyric audiences will be treated to an unforgettable evening of artistry when Dmitri Hvorostovsky appears in an intimate recital with pianist Ivari Ilja....
In February, Lyric will present Romeo and Juliet in a new-to-Chicago production! This coincides with Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a yearlong international arts festival to commemorate the quadricentennial of William Shakespeare’s death...
Who can forget the sight of Anna’s skirt swirling to rapturous music as she dances with the king in the beloved Broadway classic The King and I? Lyric is preparing to present Chicago audiences a thrilling opportunity to hear this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic hit...
There’s a worldly-wise woman, Princess von Werdenberg, wondering if her much-younger lover, Octavian, is going to leave her. And there’s the innocent young Sophie falling head over heels for Octavian, who’s desperate to keep her from marrying the wrong man — that’s the romantic side of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier...
Sometimes, grand opera just has to be, well, GRAND. Outsized, supersized, overwhelming. Call it what you will, Verdi’s Nabucco is all that....
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