Beyond the Stage: Enhance Your La bohème Experience
Dive deeper into La bohème with these opportunities to enhance your experience. 🎭
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
LOKC Amplified: August 2026
August is here, and the 2026–2027 season begins in just over a month with Puccini’s perennial favorite, La bohème. 🕯️This will be Lyric Opera’s thirteenth production of Puccini’s classic story of friendship and romance. 💞 This season, we have an incredible lineup of new programming to support our mainstage performances, including a book club, movie … Read more
LOKC Amplified: June 2026
Summer and the World Cup have arrived in Kansas City! ⚽ Even though we aren’t actively in production, there is a lot of hot summer news. 🍵 Lyric Opera’s long-time general director, Deborah Sandler Kemper, announced she will retire at the end of the 2026–2027 season after fifteen years of distinguished service to Lyric Opera. … Read more
LOKC Amplified: May 2026
April showers bring May flowers as we close the 2025-2026 season. 🌷 Thank you for joining us for the journey that was this fabulous season. Before you know it, though, more world-class opera is coming your way with the 2026-2027 season. ✨ We open in September with La bohème, 🕯️ which will open a little … Read more
LOKC Amplified: April 2026
Welcome to spring at Lyric Opera! 🌞 Even as the season closes, there is still plenty of opera to enjoy, as well as learning and community engagement opportunities to take part in. 📆 Read below about our upcoming Community Conversation on an actual farm, a screening of the 1992 film Of Mice and Men 🎥 … Read more
Beyond the Stage: Enhance Your Of Mice and Men Experience
Dive deeper into Of Mice and Men with these opportunities to enhance your experience. 🎭
LOKC Amplified: March 2026
There are only ten days of winter left, and as the weather warms up, Lyric Opera continues to be as busy as a bumblebee as we continue to bring opera to the Kansas City community. 🐝 Throughout the spring, there are loads of fantastic programming at Lyric Opera. Our new show about Harlem Renaissance writer … Read more
LOKC Amplified: February 2026
We hope you made it through the deep freeze of January! ☃️ Now that February is here, we are awash in a flurry of activity around our upcoming production of The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess. 🎣 We officially kick things off with a special Community Conversation at the Kansas City Library-Plaza Branch 📚 where we’ll explore the context of Porgy and Bess. We are also offering our usual slate of Opera Dives Deep sessions with national and regional scholars 🧠 to provide a framework so you get the most out of your experience, and special to Porgy and Bess, one of these sessions will be between the two weekends of performances. 🗓️ After Porgy closes, check out our new work, Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life, about the Missouri-native writer. ✒️♥️
Beyond the Stage: Enhance Your Porgy and Bess Experience
Dive deeper into The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess with these opportunities to enhance your experience. 🎭
LOKC Amplified: January 2026
🎊Happy New Year from Lyric Opera! 🎊 Now it’s time to delve into two American classics as we kick off America’s 250th birthday year. 🎂🦅 The second half of our season explores American opera and letters. Together, we’ll experience two major American operas: The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess 🎣 and Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and … Read more
