Celebrating
The Lyric Opera
Of Kansas City
The Lyric
Why Opera?
Leadership
Would You Like
An Invitation?
For more than four hundred years opera has taken people out of their ordinary lives into exotic locations, palaces and mythical worlds. Opera is the only art form that combines un-amplified singers, orchestras and dancers to tell timeless stories of love, betrayal, comedy, tragedy, and heroism. For the past 50 years the Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s performances have been giving people awe-inspired goose bumps by producing intimate world-class opera in the Midwest.
The Lyric Opera of Kansas City prides itself on offering area residents the same opera opportunities as residents in major cities like New York, Washington DC and Chicago have come to expect. The Lyric’s world-renowned vocalists, costumes, scenery and instrumentalists rival those of other regional opera companies around the world. The Company presents timeless classics, world premieres, and even operas designed for children, to offer a broad repertoire of professional operative experiences to the community.
Opera’s gorgeous melodies and stunning harmonies cross the boundaries of language. With electronic translations and text, operas can be performed around the globe and understood by every audience member. Opera presents universal, age-old stories of human spirit that continue to actively involve audiences even after many re-stagings. The Lyric Opera of Kansas City brings the community the opportunity to be completely involved in listening, feeling, watching and absorbing timeless stories in their own backyard.
