Lyric Opera press releases are available below. For press inquiries, contact Director of Marketing & Public Relations Gregory Campbell at gcampbell@kcopera.org.
2026–2027 SEASON PRESS RELEASES
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Opens 2026–2027 Season with Puccini’s “La bohème” (August 13, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2026–2027 Resident Artists (July 13, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Exciting 2026–2027 Season (March 2, 2026)
Previous Seasons
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Retirement of General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler Kemper (May 20, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Community Engagement Programming for Of Mice and Men (April 7, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck’s Classica American Novella in Premiere of Lyric Opera of Kansas City Co-Production (April 2, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Community Tour of Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life (February 12, 2026)
- Lyric Opera Receives Grant From the Missouri Humanities Council for the New Touring Program, Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life (January 27, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Community Engagement Programming for The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess (January 22, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents for the First Time in Its History: Porgy and Bess (January 15, 2026)
- Lyric Opera Circle Announces 2026 Lyric Opera Ball: A Modern Masquerade (January 1, 2026)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Vibrant Community Engagement Events for a Masterpiece of Italian Opera: Madame Butterfly (October 14, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces a Masterpiece of Italian Opera: Madame Butterfly (October 10, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Vibrant Community Engagement Events for the All-New Production of Cinderella (September 3, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces a Crown Jewel of Bel Canto Opera: Cinderella (August 28, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2025–2026 Resident and Apprentice Artists (June 13, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2025–2026 Season (March 10, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Puccini’s Grandest Opera: Turandot, Returning to Kansas City! (April 10, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces World Premiere and Free Community Tour of Maya and the Magic Ring (February 18, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents Community Conversation with Support from Missouri Humanities Council (February 10, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (February 6, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Welcomes New Chief Development Officer Ashley Parks (January 6, 2025)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Shining World-Premiere Recording Nominated for 2025 GRAMMY® for Best Opera Recording (November 13, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Barber of Seville (October 17, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Brightness of Light (August 27, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2024–2025 Season (March 11, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Shining World-Premiere Recording (March 27, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces World Premiere and Community Tour of The Haberdasher Prince (February 27, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Roméo et Juliette (February 1, 2024)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Roméo et Juliette Casting Update: Kansas City Native Son Tenor Ben Bliss Replaces Matthew White as Roméo (December 5, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Sound of Music (October 6, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2023-2024 Resident Artists and Apprentice Artists (September 7, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Kansas City Premiere of NEW Productions of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci (September 5, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Two Opera Commissions for Audiences of All Ages (August 15, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2023-2024 Season (March 13, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Sondheim on Sondheim (April 6, 2023)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces The Shining (February 9, 2023)
- 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 Amahl and the Night Visitors (November 1, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces La traviata (October 6, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces Carmen (August 26, 2022)
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City Announces 2022-2023 Resident Artists (August 24, 2022)
