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Celebrate the start of Chicago's cultural season with a melodic evening under the stars. Lyric’s annual free concert, Sunday in the Park with Lyric, takes place on August 25, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park and promises an opportunity to embrace the end of summer with a fun-filled night of music. 

Driven by passion, revenge, and obsession, Giuseppe Verdi’s classic tragedy Rigoletto arrives on the stage of Lyric Opera of Chicago from September 14 to October 6, 2024, ushering in the start of Chicago’s cultural season. Conducted by Lyric’s Music Director Enrique Mazzola, a much-acclaimed Verdian, and directed by Juilliard’s Mary Birnbaum in her Lyric debut, this production opens the Lyric season with a vengeance.

This fall, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Opera in the Neighborhoods program will captivate audiences with a tour of the youth opera Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World. Composed by Joe Illick with a libretto by Mark Campbell, and based on the acclaimed picture book by Laurence Anholt, this enchanting production will tour numerous community venues across the Chicago area, sparking the imaginations of audiences and celebrating the vibrant legacy of one of the 20th century's most iconic artists.