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Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Retirement of General Director

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announce that General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler Kemper will retire at the conclusion of the 2026–2027 season, on June 30, 2027, after 15 years of visionary leadership. Sandler Kemper joined Lyric Opera of Kansas City on July 1, 2012, becoming the first woman to serve as general director and CEO in the {…}
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Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2026-27 Season

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Puccini’s masterpiece “La bohème.”  Performance Dates: Sept. 19, 25 & 27, 2026 Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” will be the second opera of the season. Performance Dates: Nov. 7, 13 & 15, 2026 Gilbert and Sullivan’s ever popular operetta “The Pirates of Penzance” will get a {…}
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Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2025-26 Season

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Rossini’s “Cinderella” in Michael Shell’s production. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Oct. 5, 2025 Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will be the second opera of the season. Performance Dates: Nov. 14-16, 2025 Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” will be the third production of the season. Performance Dates: Feb. 28-March 8, {…}
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Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2024-25 Review: The Barber of Seville

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(Photo: “The Barber of Seville” debuted just over 200 years ago in Rome. The opera played to a jeering audience, a staged event where adherents of the composer Giovanni Paisiello – whose own version of the opera, “Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile” had pleased operagoers 20 years earlier – packed the house and catcalled throughout the premiere {…}
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Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced its 2024-25 season. Kevin Puts’ “The Brightness of Light” will be performed. The work is based on letters by Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry star. The work will be performed in a semi-staged concert with projections; the second half will consist of opera and Broadway {…}
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Samantha Hankey, Andriana Chuchman & Adam Smith Lead Lyric Opera of Kansas City Opera’s 2023-24 Season

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced its 2023-24 season featuring four productions. The season opens with a double bill of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci.” Mascagni’s work will star Samantha Hankey, Adam Smith, and Gevorg Hakobyan. Meanwhile, Leoncavallo’s work will star Diego Torre, Gabriella Reyes, and Gevorg Hakobyan. Roberto Kalb conducts the production by Shawna Lucey. Performance Dates: {…}
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Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2022-23 Season

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced its 65th season with four productions in the Kauffman Center. The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen,” one of the most popular operas in the repertoire. Performance Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 2 2022 Verdi’s “La Traviata” returns to the repertoire featuring some of the composer’s most famous pieces. Performance Dates: Nov. 5-13, 2022 Paul {…}
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Talise Trevigne, Marina Costa-Jackson, Wei Wu & John Moore Lead Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s 2021-22 Season

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced its 2021-22 season featuring four productions. The season opens with “Lyric Opera Goes to Hollywood” which will feature famous arias and instrumental moments included in films like “Pretty Woman,” “Mission Impossible,” and “Up.” Talise Trevigne, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Limmie Pulliam, and Edward Parks will be the soloists with David Charles Abell conducting. Performance {…}
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Lyric Opera of Kansas City Postpones Remaining Productions, Announces Digital Fall Programming

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Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced revisions for its 2020-21 season. The company has been forced to postpone its remaining mainstage productions of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” and “Carmen” until they can be presented in a safe manner. The company will instead create new digital programming for the fall through new initiatives. The first of these is “Soundscapes {…}

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