The Company seeks to mount productions that enrich the community it serves, as well as reflect the highest artistic standards of the profession. Repertoire choices encompass original language performances of standard repertory as well as contemporary and American operas, including a 2015 production of the Pulitzer-prize winning Silent Night.

We also aim to develop talent, repertoire, programs and productions that bring the best of Lyric Opera of Kansas City to the world.įounded in 1958, the Lyric Opera brings high quality live operatic performances to the people of the Kansas City area and five-state region at the state-of-the-art Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Located in the heart of Kansas City’s Crossroads community, Lyric Opera creates transformational opera experiences through our performances and through our outreach and education initiatives. To make Lyric Opera of Kansas City indispensable to the public through transformational opera experiences and community engagement which captures the hearts and minds of our diverse audiences.

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