Press Releases
Lyric Opera press releases can be found below. For press inquiries, contact Ellen McDonald, Publicity Consultant, at (816) 213-4355 or publicity@kcopera.org.
2023-2024 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2023-2024 Season (March 13, 2023)
2022-2023 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2022-2023 Resident Artists (August 24, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Carmen (August 26, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces La traviata (October 6, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Amahl and the Night Visitors (November 1, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler Kemper Awarded Top Professionals of the Year by Musical America Worldwide (January, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Shining (February 9, 2023)
2021-2022 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2021-2022 Season (June 14, 2021)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2021-2022 Resident Artists and Apprentice Artists (June 24, 2021)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2021-2022 Season Opener Concert Lyric Opera Goes to Hollywood (October 13, 2021)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Live Performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors (November 15, 2021)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces KANSAS CITY PREMIERE of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (February 7, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Tosca (March 28, 2022)
2020-2021 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2020-2021 Season (February 7, 2020)
- MEDIA ALERT! Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Online Chorus Auditions for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (April 1, 2020)
- Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Symphony, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Harriman-Jewell Series Announce Revised 2020-21 Season (July 7, 2020)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces NEW Revised 2020 Fall Programming and Postponement of 2021 Spring Season at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (October 6, 2020)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Opera in Eight Parts (October 19, 2020)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Amahl and the Night Visitors (November 9, 2020)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Amahl and the Night Visitors Live Performances Cancelled Digital Filmed Performance Available for Viewing Starting Dec. 15 (November 20, 2020)
2019-2020 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2019-2020 Season (February 11, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Kicks Off 2019-2020 Season with Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio (August 26, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Welcomes Renowned Soprano Carol Vaness For Master Class FREE and Open to the Public (September 26, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Continues 2019-2020 Season with La bohème (October 11, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2020 Explorations, A Series that Blends Classical and Popular Music In “…When There Are Nine” and Cabaret: In the Mood for Love (November 18, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Receives Grant for Panel Discussion (December 20, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Continues 2019-2020 Season with New-To-Kansas City Production Lucia di Lammermoor (February 14, 2020)
2018-2019 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2018-2019 Season (February 9, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Partners with Teens in Transition and Local Mural Artists for West Side Story Mural (July 6, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Kicks off 61st Anniversary 2018-2019 Season with NEW PRODUCTION of West Side Story (August 27, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Continues 61st Anniversary 2018-2019 Season with Madama Butterfly (October 11, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Selection of 2018-2019 Resident Artists and Kicks of Explorations Series with High Fidelity Opera (October 25, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Latest Explorations Series production Mack the Knife is the Man I Love: A Weill-Gershwin Cabaret (January 8, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2018-2019 Season Continues with Così fan tutte (February 18, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Explorations Series production Penelope (March 4, 2019)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2018-2019 Season Concludes with The Pearl Fishers (April 3, 2019)
2017-2018 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Announcement of 2017-2018 Season (February 6, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Selection of 2017-2018 Resident Artists (August 9, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Kicks Off 60th Anniversary 2017-2018 Season with NEW PRODUCTION of Eugene Onegin (August 17, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Explorations Series Continues with Arias and Barcarolles| The Bernstein Songbook (September 20, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2017-18 Season Continues with Kansas City Premiere of Everest (October 16, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s Explorations Series Continues with Laura Kaminsky’s As One (January 10, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2017-18 Season Continues with Rigoletto (February 14, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Concluding Performance of Exploration Series: American Voices (March 6, 2018)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2017-18 Season Concludes with The Barber of Seville (April 3, 2018)
2016-2017 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Eclectic 2016-2017 Season at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (March 4, 2016)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Selection of First-Ever Resident Artists (June 24, 2016)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Launch of Explorations, a New Performance Series (July 11, 2016)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2016-17 Season Kicks off with Hansel and Gretel (August 18, 2016)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2016-17 Season Continues with Lyric Opera debut co-production of The Marriage of Figaro (October 11, 2016)
- Spencer Fane Sponsors Lyric Opera Explorations Series (January 5, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s Inaugural Explorations Series Continues with Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters (January 9, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2016-17 Season Continues with Kansas City PREMIERE of Dead Man Walking (February 6, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Exploration Series Concludes March 19 with Art Songs Series: American Voices (March 6, 2017)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2016-17 Season Concludes with The Pirates of Penzance (March 30, 2017)
2015-2016 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2015-2016 Season at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (February 9, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Conductors for 2015-16 Season (August 17, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2015-2016 Season to Open with ALL NEW PRODUCTION of Mozart’s Haunting Don Giovanni (August 24, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Launch of Resident Artists Program (August 31, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Three New Key Staff Appointments (October 6, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Premiere Rare Czech Opera – Dvořák’s Rusalka (October 9, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City to Present Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (February 12, 2016)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2015-16 Season to Conclude with Bizet’s Carmen (March 25, 2016)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Awarded Art Works Award from National Endowment for the Arts (May 10, 2016)
2014-2015 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2014-2015 ‘Season to Cherish’ at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (March 10, 2014)
- Over There! 1914 Field Dining Experience and Cabaret August 23 at the World War I Museum (July 31, 2014)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Verdi’s La Traviata to open 2014-15 Season (September 2, 2014)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2014-15 Season Continues with Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers (October 6, 2014)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Vinson Cole & Friends, Sunday January 11, 2015 (December 1, 2014)
- Media Alert: Tosca Children’s Chorus Auditions Announced (December 10, 2014)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City to Debut Pulitzer Prize Winner Silent Night February 21-March 1 In Commemoration of WWI Centennial (January 22, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City to Present the Popular and Beloved Tosca (March 18, 2015)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Major Artistic Reorganization (May 6, 2015)
2013-2014 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2013-2014 Season (February 25, 2013)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Two Conductor Changes for the 2013-14 Season (July 19, 2013)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces New Key Board and Staff Appointments (July 25, 2013)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Bellini’s The Capulets and the Montagues to Open 2013-14 Season (August 15, 2013)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Mozart’s The Magic Flute to Continue 2013-14 Season (October 9, 2013)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Puccini’s Masterpiece La bohème (February 13, 2014)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents NEW PRODUCTION of Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus To Close the 56th Season (March 26, 2014)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces New Key Staff Appointments (May 6, 2014)
2012-2013 Season Press Releases
- Lyric Opera Elects New Board of Directors (July 1, 2012)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Solar Link US Inc., Announce Partnership (July 17, 2012)
- The Lyric Opera of Kansas City Offers Youth Opera Camp (July 24, 2012)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces New Casting for Second Season at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (August 1, 2012)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Madama Butterfly (August 14, 2012)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Il Trovatore (September 18, 2012)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents The Flying Dutchman (January 17, 2013)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents The Mikado (March 4, 2013)
