Repertoire
The Lyric Opera of Kansas City has produced over 100 different operas since its founding in 1958. Below all of the Opera titles ever performed by the Lyric Opera are listed in alphabetical order, with the composer and seasons performed included below. For detailed information about recent Lyric Opera productions, click here.
The Abduction from the Seraglio
Mozart – 1958, 1972, 2003, 2019
Aida
Verdi – 1972, 1977, 1992, 2007
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Menotti – 1992, 1993, 2020, 2021
Andrea Chenier
Giordano – 1962, 1968, 1976, 1998
Ariadne auf Naxos
R. Strauss – 1966, 1978, 1995
As One
Kaminsky – 2018
The Ballad of Baby Doe
Moore – 1976, 1982, 1997
The Barber of Seville
Rossini – 1959, 1962, 1967, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1991, 2000, 2007, 2012, 2018
La Belle Hélène
Offenbach – 1981
Billy Budd
Britten – 1999
La bohème
Puccini – 1958, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1982, 1989, 1996, 2002, 2008, 2014, 2019
Candide
Bernstein – 1984
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
Beeson – 1975** (World Premiere)
The Capulets and the Montagues
Bellini – 2013
Carmen
Bizet – 1959, 1968, 1979, 1989, 1997, 2005, 2010, 2016, 2022
Cavalleria Rusticana
Mascagni – 1961, 1970, 1999, 2023
Christopher Columbus
Offenbach – 1979
Cinderella
Rossini – 1984, 1994, 2004
Cold Sassy Tree
Floyd – 2002
Così fan tutte
Mozart – 1962, 1984, 1999, 2011, 2019
Coyote Tales
Mollicone – 1998**** (World Premiere)
The Crucible
Ward – 1968, 1974, 1986
The Daughter of the Regiment
Donizetti – 1988, 2011
Dead Man Walking
Heggie – 2017
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Moore – 1963, 1995****
Don Giovanni
Mozart – 1960, 1967, 1979, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2010, 2015
Don Pasquale
Donizetti – 1960, 1966, 1989, 2002
Down in the Valley
Weill – 1995
The Elixir of Love
Donizetti – 1963, 1968, 1980, 1990, 2003, 2016
The End of the Affair
Heggie – 2007
Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky – 2000, 2017
Everest
Talbott – 2017
Falstaff
Verdi – 1987
Faust
Gounod – 1962, 1966, 1978, 1985, 1996
Fidelio
Beethoven – 1982, 1983
Die Fledermaus
J. Strauss – 1974, 1988, 1999, 2014
The Flying Dutchman
Wagner – 1973, 1975, 2013
The Force of Destiny
Verdi – 1961
The Free Lance
Sousa – 1980
Gianni Schicchi
Puccini – 1961, 1964, 1971
The Girl of the Golden West
Puccini – 1978
The Goose from Cairo
Mozart – 1982, 1986
H.M.S. Pinafore
Sullivan – 1978, 1991, 1997, 2009
Hamlet
Thomas – 2006
Hänsel and Gretel
Humperdinck – 1995, 2016
The Happy Time
Kander – 1983
Iolanthe
Sullivan – 1979
The Italian Girl in Algiers
Rossini – 1981, 1998, 2014
John Brown
Mechem – 2008 (World Premiere)
The Juliet Letters
Costello – 2017
Julius Caesar
Handel – 2008
Die Kluge
Orff – 1971, 1978
Listen, Wilhelmina!
Hanlon – 2023
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti – 1981, 1991, 2006, 2020
Macbeth
Verdi – 2000
Madama Butterfly
Puccini – 1960, 1965, 1971, 1980, 1987, 1993, 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018
The Magic Flute
Mozart – 1974, 1993, 2001, 2008, 2013
Man of La Mancha
Wasserman-Leigh-Darion – 1989
Manon
Massenet – 1981
The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart – 1961, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1996, 2005, 2011, 2016
Martha
Flotow – 1986
A Masked Ball
Verdi – 1967, 1985, 2005
The Medium
Menotti – 1963, 1964, 1978
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Nicolai – 1963, 1992
The Merry Widow
Lehár – 1982, 1993, 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Britten – 2004
The Mighty Casey
Schuman – 1994
The Mikado
Sullivan – 1977, 1985, 1992, 2001, 2013
Most Happy Fella
Loesser – 1983
A Hand of Bridge
Barber – 2018
The Mother of Us All
Thomson – 1983
Nixon in China
Adams – 2012
Norma
Bellini – 2010
Of Mice and Men
Floyd – 1970, 2004
Old Maid and the Thief
Menotti – 2018
Othello
Verdi – 1958, 1963, 1970, 1994
I Pagliacci
Leoncavallo – 1958, 1970, 1999, 2023
The Pearl Fishers
Bizet – 2007, 2019
Penelope
Snider – 2019
La Perichole
Offenbach – 1973, 1975, 1983
The Pirates of Penzance
Sullivan – 1976, 1987, 1995, 2009, 2017
The Rake’s Progress
Stravinsky – 2001
Regina
Blitzstein – 1981, 1989
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Bates- 2022
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Rigoletto
Verdi – 1959, 1964, 1969, 1982, 1990, 2003, 2010, 2018
Roméo et Julliette
Gounod – 1994, 2003, 2023
Der Rosenkavalier
R. Strauss – 1987
Rusalka
Dvořák – 2015
The Saint of Bleecker Street
Menotti – 1972, 1994
Salome
Strauss – 2002
Samson and Delilah
Saint-Saens – 1990
La Serva Padrona
Pergolesi – 1958
The Shining
Moravec – 2022
Siegfried
Wagner – 1992
Silent Night
Puts – 2015
The Sound of Music
Rogers and Hammerstein II – 2023
Susannah
Floyd – 1977, 1991
Sweeney Todd
Sondheim – 1985
The Sweet Bye and Bye
Beeson – 1973*
The Tales of Hoffmann
Offenbach – 1965, 1969, 1977, 1990
The Taming of the Shrew
Giannini – 1969***, 1971
Tannhäuser
Wagner – 1988
The Tempest
Hoiby – 1988
The Threepenny Opera
Weill – 1986
Tosca
Puccini – 1959, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1986, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2015, 2022
Transformations
Susa – 1974
La traviata
Verdi – 1960, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1998, 2009, 2014, 2022
Il Trovatore
Verdi – 1966, 1983, 2012
Turandot
Puccini – 1985, 2011
The Turn of the Screw
Britten – 2005
The Valkyrie
Wagner – 1991
Vanessa
Barber – 1963, 1965, 1979, 1997
West Side Story
Bernstein – 2018
…When there are nine
Karpman – 2020
Where the Wild Things Are
Knussen-Sendak – 1986
The Yeomen of the Guard
Sullivan – 1963, 1972, 1990
Recordings
* Desto
** RCA
*** CRI
**** Newport