November is here—who’s ready for family, fun, and a bit of flair? ✨ Embrace the season with turkey 🦃, pumpkin spice 🥧, and a dash of Italian comedy 🎭! Our 2024-2025 season rolls on with The Barber of Seville, running November 15-17. Expect stunning visuals, a tremendous cast, and an extraordinary creative team bringing Rossini’s classic … Read more
Julie Farstad, Associate Professor of Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute Born on a farm in the Wisconsin prairie and eventually finding her true home in the semiarid valleys and mesas of New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe marveled at the awe she felt in the natural world and spent her life trying to create paintings … Read more
Trey Hock, Assistant Professor of Animation at Kansas City Art Institute Born in 1864, Alfred Stieglitz was just twenty-five years younger than the medium of photography itself. As a young man, Stieglitz was driven by a love of theater, music, as well as the visual arts. It wasn’t until his late teens that he came … Read more
Our first production of the 2024–2025 season is The Brightness of Light by Kevin Puts, which tells the story of the relationship between modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe and gallerist, photographer, and her eventual husband, Alfred Stieglitz. My postgraduate studies were in opera and music history, but I’m sad to say that I wasn’t exposed to … Read more
It’s been a beautiful spring so far in Kansas City. 🌞 At the end of spring, the final landmark performances 🎭 of Kansas City’s venerable performing arts organizations will take place. Lyric Opera rounded out its season with Journey to Valhalla, our new compendium of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. 🗡️ ICYMI, we announced the 2024-2025 season … Read more
by Neal Long, Director of Learning On Monday, April 29, 2024, I attended an Opera Dives Deep presentation by Dr. Ron Witzke entitled “Monuments of Tone and Stone.” Dr. Witzke—a bass-baritone, professor, and librettist—is a close friend of Lyric Opera of Kansas City and regularly appears on stage in productions at the Kauffman Center for … Read more
ATTENTION: This post contains minor spoilers. In the enchanting tale of The Haberdasher Prince, friendship emerges as a guiding force, leading our principal characters–the Village Girl, King Hamluk, the Queen, and Prince Panderbash–on a journey to connection and companionship. Here is what The Haberdasher Prince can teach us about being a true friend. Trust Surrounded … Read more
Happy New Year from Lyric Opera of Kansas City! 🎊 We start 2024 with numerous opportunities to engage with opera and our community. Highlights include a silent dinner 🍝 from our friends at Orpheus KC, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, 🌟 and our beloved opera written for young people, Sketchbook for Ollie, 📘 goes back on … Read more
Dr. Paul Laird, Professor of Musicology at The University of Kansas and celebrated author, joined Opera Dives Deep on Monday, October 30, 2023, to engage audiences with topics around The Sound of Music. His presentation, entitled Rodgers and Hammerstein and The Sound of Music, provided an overview of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s collaboration and placed The … Read more
Kansas City-based pianist, musicologist, educator, and writer Grace Odell joined Opera Dives Deep on Monday, October 23, 2023, to prepare audiences for The Sound of Music. Her presentation, Notes of Virtue, explored the fascinating world of the Trapp Family Singers and the musical they inspired. Attendees engaged in facilitated discussion and were invited to consider … Read more
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