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 earlier than in years past, so you won’t have to wait long for more of the opera you crave. Subscriptions for the 2026-2027 season are now on sale, and if you’re a current subscriber, the deadline to keep your seats is this FRIDAY! ⌛🎟️ Don’t miss out on a season full of love, elegance, wit, and grandeur!
Read more below about our recent production of Of Mice and Men, our upcoming children’s chorus auditions, and some reflections on our recent touring work, Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life. You can also learn below about how to become part of the 2026–2027 season by joining us as a supernumerary. 🎭
Of Mice and Men (2026) / Photo © Don Ipock
Revisit the most memorable moments from Lyric Opera's final show of the season, Of Mice and Men. Learn more about the production, and see photos, clips, and other media to continue reflecting on the poignant story. 📸
The Marriage of Figaro (2016) / Photo © Dana Sohm
It's season ticket time! ⏰ Lyric Opera subscribers get an automatic discount on every ticket in a season subscription, plus additional discounts on extra tickets you share with friends and family! 👯 There are also tons of other perks, like discounts at other opera companies around North America, free ticket exchanges, invitations to exclusive events, and more! Next season is full of opera blockbusters; save money now by purchasing a subscription!
Backstage during La bohème (2019) / Photo © Don Ipock
Do you know any young performers who want to make their opera debut? Lyric Opera is holding auditions for child choristers for the upcoming production of La bohème on Monday, May 11, and Wednesday, May 13! Children in the Lyric's Opera Chorus get the chance to perform in a professional setting in the grandest stage productions in Kansas City, while working with and learning from some of the best opera singers from around the world.
Don't wait to apply! Audition registration materials are due by tomorrow, May 6! 📆
The unbridled JOY of a comedic chase. The devastating ACHE of a final goodbye. The ELECTRICITY of a live performance.
As this season comes to a close, make your gift by June 30 to prepare the stage for new stories that will make you FEEL transported long after you leave the theater!
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Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life (2026) / Photo © Andrew Schwartz
During March and April, we honored the legacy of Missouri's own Langston Hughes through our sold-out community tour, Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life. Our dedicated creative team and artists traveled for three weeks to bring this tribute to life, delivering nine community performances and eleven school performances across the Kansas City area.
We believe the best testament to our work is the feedback from those who experience it, so please enjoy reading what our audiences had to say:
- “Keep up the amazing work! In a world that seems to want us to be numb and compliant, the Lyric reminds us that we are alive and that we can indeed, reach our hands and hearts into the past, present, and future. We can celebrate being alive! Bravo!”
- “[Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life] acquainted me with how applicable the poems of Langston Hughes are to the problems of today. The program was beautifully presented.”
We invite you to visit our show gallery to read more and view the highlights from this celebration of a literary genius.
The Barber of Seville (2024) / Photo © Don Ipock
Make your Lyric Opera debut as a supernumerary next season! Lyric Opera is always looking for volunteer supernumeraries in our grand opera productions! Supernumeraries (“supers” for short) are non-singing, non-speaking extras on stage, and help fill out the cast in roles like Princess Turandot's royal guard, Don Ramiro's ball attendees, or Figaro's barbering assistants.
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With public support from the State of Missouri and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
Of Mice and Men was made possible, in part, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sunderland Foundation. Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life was presented in partnership with the Missouri Humanities with support from the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund. Additional support is provided, in part, by the Dr. Mary E. Brothers Resident Artist Performance Fund.
