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March 11, 2022
Tosca opens Saturday, March 12
Tosca brings together three of opera’s most richly drawn characters—a glamorous opera singer, a revolutionary painter, and a sinister police chief—into a potboiler of doomed love, political intrigue, and murder, all powered by some of the most gripping and passionate music ever composed for the stage.
February 1, 2022
Lyric Opera of Chicago Announces 2022/23 Season
Lyric Opera of Chicago, led by General Director, President & CEO Anthony Freud and Music Director Enrique Mazzola, today announces the company’s 2022/23 Season, featuring productions of classic operas, a continuing long-term focus on developing and presenting new work, plus the return of Lyric’s annual spring musical.
January 27, 2022
What you need to know about Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Lyric Opera of Chicago is proud to present the Chicago premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, a new opera from six-time Grammy Award winner Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons, based on the memoir by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow.
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