Opening Night and Opera Ball
Opening Night Gala Performance and Opera Ball 2010
MACBETH
Friday, October 1, at 7pm
Lyric Opera's 56th Season kicks off with an Opening Night celebration you’ll never forget!
Welcome to Lyric Opera’s Opening Night Gala 2010, a spectacular celebration of unsurpassed theatrical opera, featuring a brand new, transformative performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth. As you enter the Civic Opera House, find yourself transported to Castle Dunsinane, where furtive witches and covetous men and women conspire for power over the bedraggled kingdom of Scotland.
The Opening Night Gala celebrating this extraordinary production and a thrilling new season from Lyric Opera will include hors d’oeuvre and desserts, champagne, and sparkling water. The performance stars Thomas Hampson as Lord Macbeth, Nadja Michael as Lady Macbeth, and Dimitri Pittas as Macduff. Making her operatic directing debut is Barbara Gaines, founder and artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Opening Night Gala Macbeth ticket prices range from $75 to $600.
The Opening Night Gala Benefit 2010 is sponsored by Aon Corporation.
New Lyric Opera production of Macbeth generously made possible by The Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa, the Abbott Fund, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin, and Nancy W. Knowles.
Lyric patrons attending the Opening Night Gala performance are also invited to purchase tickets to the Opera Ball, an opulent soirée celebrating the inauguration of another remarkable Lyric Opera season, held at the Hilton Chicago immediately following the performance. This black-tie affair gives opera lovers the opportunity to celebrate Opening Night with the stars of Macbeth!
Opera Ball attendees enter the Hilton and ascend the grand staircase, where they are greeted by the sound of heralding trumpets and welcomed by the Opening Night and Opera Ball chairmen, the Women’s Board president, and hostesses from the Women’s Board. The Grand March of the Stars begins the Opera Ball, followed by a delightful dinner and guests dancing the night away to the Stu Hirsh Orchestra.
Opera Ball reservations are $475 per person.
The Opera Ball is co-sponsored by Illinois Tool Works Inc. and Northern Trust.
For more information about Opening Night and the Opera Ball, please call (312) 827-5682 or e-mail WBOffice@lyricopera.org.
PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE OPENING NIGHT GALA PERFORMANCE OF MACBETH AND OPERA BALL.