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Thursday, October 22, 2026
Omar makes its Chicago premiere on Friday, October 23
Omar, the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, receives its long-awaited Chicago premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago this week — a landmark work Lyric has helped shape as a co-commissioner since its inception.
Friday, October 9, 2026
Lyric's season opens with Don Giovanni on Saturday, October 10
Lyric Opera of Chicago comes full circle to open its 2026/27 Season: Mozart’s Don Giovanni — the very opera that launched the company back in 1954 — returns to the stage October 10 – November 1, 2026.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
A wig, a scheme, and one very gullible bachelor: the effervescent comic triumph of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale comes to Lyric this November
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Donizetti’s dazzling comedy Don Pasquale, on stage November 12–27, 2026, returning to Lyric for the first time in over a decade.
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