Beyond the Stage: Enhance Your Porgy and Bess Experience
Dive deeper into The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess with these opportunities to enhance your experience. 🎭
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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
When We Come Together, Opera Comes To Life
Meet the friends whose lives have been transformed by opera.
Eyes Full of Magic: Moments from the Museum
In partnership with The Museum of Kansas City, we recently hosted a Community Conversation exploring Japanese American relations, past, present, and future. Miss Shizuoka, the Japanese Friendship doll in the Museum’s collection, was the icon of the event, embodying the youth and innocence of the event’s title—Eyes Full of Magic. The title is taken from … Read more
LOKC Amplified: November 2025
Can you believe there are only two months left in 2025? 🗓️ Neither can we! November brings cooler weather 🍂 and opportunities to connect with friends and family. 💞 But most importantly, it brings the second production of Lyric Opera’s 2025–2026 season and the return of one of the most popular operas of all time, … Read more
LOKC Amplified: October 2025
We are officially one quarter of the way through the Lyric Opera 2025–2026 season. 🗓️ Cinderella was such a fun and effervescent way to start the season, thank you for joining us! If you couldn’t make it, check out our gallery page 📸 to view clips of the show, photography, and other content from our … Read more
From the Director: A Note from Michael Shell
Each character in this opera is reaching for something just out of their grasp—identity, belonging, and a sense of wholeness. They are misfits because of their heartfelt desire to be seen, heard, and to matter. They are all connected by a quiet ache, or in Don Magnifico’s case, a more boisterous one—a deep longing to … Read more
LOKC Amplified: September 2025
And so it begins… our happy return to FOUR full opera productions at the Kauffman Center! 🥳 Before we get started on our monumental lineup of operas, we have various fun, engaging, and often free or low-cost ways to engage with Lyric Opera. 🎨 First, we’ll host a Community Conversation with FireTale Productions, highlighting the … Read more
LOKC Amplified: August 2025
It’s August, and we’re in the final stretch of preparations. 🛠️ Rehearsals start this month as we embark on our return to FOUR full productions at the Kauffman Center. 🪩 Alongside our operas this fall, we’ve curated community and learning events to further your appreciation of our wonderful season. Learn more below about those events … Read more
More Than Meets the Ear
Highlighting uncommon instruments in Lyric Opera’s upcoming season In the world of opera, the musical feature that most audiences pay attention to is, without question, the sheer force of vocal talent present on stage. These incredible voices are the stories that touch lives and pull heartstrings, and they are bolstered by the talented orchestras that … Read more
