Explore the complete performance history of Lyric Opera of Kansas City. This page is your window into decades of operatic excellence, showcasing the enduring cultural legacy of this beloved institution. Join us in reliving the magic of countless performances that have shaped the heart of Kansas City's cultural scene.
The Abduction from the Seraglio
Mozart
1958, 1972, 2003, 2019
Aida
Verdi
1972, 1977, 1992, 2007
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Menotti
1992, 1993, 2020, 2021, 2022
Andrea Chenier
Giordano
1962, 1968, 1976, 1998
Ariadne auf Naxos
R. Strauss
1966, 1978, 1995
As One
Kaminsky
2018
The Ballad of Baby Doe
Moore
1976, 1982, 1997
The Barber of Seville
Rossini
1959, 1962, 1967, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1991, 2000, 2007, 2012, 2018
La belle Hélène
Offenbach
1981
Billy Budd
Britten
1999
La bohème
Puccini
1958, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1982, 1989, 1996, 2002, 2008, 2014, 2019
Candide
Bernstein
1984
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
Beeson
Beeson – 1975** (World Premiere)
The Capulets and the Montagues
Bellini
2013
Carmen
Bizet
1959, 1968, 1979, 1989, 1997, 2005, 2010, 2016, 2022
Cavalleria rusticana
Mascagni
1961, 1970, 1999, 2023
Christopher Columbus
Offenbach
1979
Cinderella
Rossini
1984, 1994, 2004
Cold Sassy Tree
Floyd
2002
Così fan tutte
Mozart
1962, 1984, 1999, 2011, 2019
Coyote Tales
Mollicone
1998**** (World Premiere)
The Crucible
Ward
1968, 1974, 1986
The Daughter of the Regiment
Donizetti
1988, 2011
Dead Man Walking
Heggie
2017
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Moore
1963, 1995****
Don Giovanni
Mozart
1960, 1967, 1979, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2010, 2015
Don Pasquale
Donizetti
1960, 1966, 1989, 2002
Down in the Valley
Weill
1995
The Elixir of Love
Donizetti
1963, 1968, 1980, 1990, 2003, 2016
The End of the Affair
Heggie
2007
Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky
2000, 2017
Everest
Talbott
2017
Falstaff
Verdi
1987
Faust
Gounod
1962, 1966, 1978, 1985, 1996
Fidelio
Beethoven
1982, 1983
Die Fledermaus
J. Strauss
1974, 1988, 1999, 2014
The Flying Dutchman
Wagner
1973, 1975, 2013
The Force of Destiny
Verdi
1961
The Free Lance
Sousa
1980
Gianni Schicchi
Puccini
1961, 1964, 1971
The Girl of the Golden West
Puccini
1978
The Goose From Cairo
Mozart
1982, 1986
H.M.S. Pinafore
Sullivan
1978, 1991, 1997, 2009
Hamlet
Thomas
2006
Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck
1995, 2016
The Happy Time
Kander
1983
Iolanthe
Sullivan
1979
The Italian Girl in Algiers
Rossini
1981, 1998, 2014
John Brown
Mechem
2008 (World Premiere)
The Juliet Letters
Costello
2017
Julius Ceasar
Handel
2008
Die Kluge
Orff
1971, 1978
Listen, Wilhelmina!
Hanlon
2023
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti
1981, 1991, 2006, 2020
Macbeth
Verdi
2000
Madama Butterfly
Puccini
1960, 1965, 1971, 1980, 1987, 1993, 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018
The Magic Flute
Mozart
1974, 1993, 2001, 2008, 2013
Man of La Mancha
Wasserman-Leigh-Darion
1989
Manon
Massenet
1981
The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart
1961, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1996, 2005, 2011, 2016
Martha
Massenet
1981
A Masked Ball
Verdi
1967, 1985, 2005
The Medium
Menotti
1963, 1964, 1978
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Nicolai
1963, 1992
The Merry Widow
Lehár
1982, 1993, 2006
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Britten
2004
The Mighty Casey
Schuman
1994
The Mikado
Sullivan
1977, 1985, 1992, 2001, 2013
Most Happy Fella
Loesser
1983
A Hand of Bridge
Barber
2018
The Mother of Us All
Thomson
1983
Nixon in China
Adams
2012
Norma
Bellini
2010
Of Mice and Men
Floyd
1970, 2004
Old Maid and the Thief
Menotti
2018
Othello
Verdi
1958, 1963, 1970, 1994
I Pagliacci
Leoncavallo
1958, 1970, 1999, 2023
The Pearl Fishers
Bizet
2007, 2019
Penelope
Snider
2019
La Périchole
Offenbach
1973, 1975, 1983
The Pirates of Penzance
Sullivan
1976, 1987, 1995, 2009, 2017
The Rake's Progress
Stravinsky
2001
Regina
Blitzstein
1981, 1989
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Bates
2022
Rigoletto
Verdi
1959, 1964, 1969, 1982, 1990, 2003, 2010, 2018
Roméo et Juliette
Gounod
1994, 2003, 2023
Der Rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
1987
Rusalka
Dvořák
2015
The Saint of Bleecker Street
Menotti
1972, 1994
Salome
Strauss
2002
Samson and Delilah
Saint-Saens
1990
La serva padrona
Pergolesi
1958
The Shining
Moravec
2022
Siegfried
Wagner
1992
Silent Night
Puts
2015
Sondheim on Sondheim
James Lapine
2023
The Sound of Music
Rogers and Hammerstein II
2023
Susannah
Floyd
1977, 1991
Sweeney Todd
Sondheim
1985
The Sweet Bye and Bye
Beeson
1973*
The Tales of Hoffmann
Offenbach
1965, 1969, 1977, 1990
The Taming of the Shrew
Giannini
1969***, 1971
Tannhäuser
Wagner
1988
The Tempest
Hoiby
1988
The Threepenny Opera
Weill
1986
Tosca
Puccini
1959, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1986, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2015, 2022
Transformations
Susa
1974
La traviata
Verdi
1960, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1998, 2009, 2014, 2022
Il Trovatore
Verdi
1966, 1983, 2012
Turandot
Puccini
1985, 2011
The Turn of the Screw
Britten
2005
Die Walküre
Wagner
1991
Vanessa
Barber
1963, 1965, 1979, 1997
West Side Story
Bernstein
2018
…When There Are Nine
Karpman
2020
Where the Wild Things Are
Knussen-Sendak
1986
The Yeomen of the Guard
Sullivan
1963, 1972, 1990
