Beyond the Stage: Enhance Your Porgy and Bess Experience
Dive deeper into The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess with these opportunities to enhance your experience. 🎭
LOKC Amplified: January 2026
🎊Happy New Year from Lyric Opera! 🎊 Now it’s time to delve into two American classics as we kick off America’s 250th birthday year. 🎂🦅 The second half of our season explores American opera and letters. Together, we’ll experience two major American operas: The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess 🎣 and Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and … Read more
When We Come Together, Opera Comes To Life
Meet the friends whose lives have been transformed by opera.
LOKC Amplified: December 2025
December is upon us, and with it comes the close of 2025. ☃️ Last month, we presented three gorgeous performances of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. 🦋 Read below to see what the critics thought, and explore our show gallery page, replete with photos, videos, reviews, and more. 📸 You can also learn about the incredible work … Read more
Eyes Full of Magic: Moments from the Museum
In partnership with The Museum of Kansas City, we recently hosted a Community Conversation exploring Japanese American relations, past, present, and future. Miss Shizuoka, the Japanese Friendship doll in the Museum’s collection, was the icon of the event, embodying the youth and innocence of the event’s title—Eyes Full of Magic. The title is taken from … Read more
From the Director: A Note from E. Loren Meeker
It is an incredible honor to direct Puccini’s Madame Butterfly as my debut as Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Bringing this beloved masterpiece to life offers a profound opportunity to explore its breathtaking music, emotional depth, and complex cultural legacy. Yet, for all its beauty and sincerity, Madame Butterfly is not without controversy. Over time, … Read more
From the Conductor: A Note from Roberto Kalb
In Madama Butterfly, Puccini, already celebrated for La bohème and Tosca, achieved something even more refined: long, seamless arcs of sound where voice and orchestra fuse into a single emotional current. Famous for his search for a piece’s sonic color or tinta, Puccini studied Japanese melodies and sonorities, weaving them into his late-Romantic language with … Read more
LOKC Amplified: November 2025
Can you believe there are only two months left in 2025? 🗓️ Neither can we! November brings cooler weather 🍂 and opportunities to connect with friends and family. 💞 But most importantly, it brings the second production of Lyric Opera’s 2025–2026 season and the return of one of the most popular operas of all time, … Read more
From the Conductor: A Note from Gary Thor Wedow
An anonymous reviewer in 1820 compared the enthusiasm for Rossini to a contagion: “No matter how many times we have been forced to hear these masterpieces, feeling the greatest unwillingness in the world, we were never able to leave the theatre without feeling inflamed with this delicious sentiment that secretly takes possession of the heart.” … Read more
LOKC Amplified: October 2025
We are officially one quarter of the way through the Lyric Opera 2025–2026 season. 🗓️ Cinderella was such a fun and effervescent way to start the season, thank you for joining us! If you couldn’t make it, check out our gallery page 📸 to view clips of the show, photography, and other content from our … Read more
