The company’s 2026-27 season lineup also features seven operas, including “Don Giovanni,” “Omar” and “Susannah.” Plus, a new role for noted hometown soprano Sondra Radvanovsky.

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The plot summary of U.S. opera in recent years has unfolded like the last act of a Verdi tragedy: New York City Opera, dead; Opera Boston, dead; San Diego Opera, on its final aria.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has completed its sold-out world premiere run of Safronia, a landmark new opera by Chicago's inaugural Poet Laureate Avery R. Young, which tells the story of the Booker family's ...

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Lyric Opera of Chicago will bring back its summer musical with a 2027 production of “Guys and Dolls” after a four-season hiatus, the company announced Thursday . Lyric’s upcoming 2026-27 season is ...

Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate makes his Lyric mainstage debut with, “safronia,” loosely based on his family’s own Great Migration story. Inside Chicago’s grand Lyric Opera House, world-class ...