While Lyric still sells more than 23,000 subscription packages per season-one of the largest subscription bases in Chicago and across the field-subscription sales have dramatically decreased in the last 15 years. maintaining a position of fiscal stability that will support our steadfast commitment to providing excellent and relevant art in Chicago.įaced with a rapidly evolving social, political, and cultural climate, Lyric, like many performing arts organizations nationwide, has had to be creative and dynamic in navigating changing consumer and audience behavior in the 21st century.fostering the development of exceptional emerging opera artists through residencies at the internationally renowned Patrick G.building on longstanding relationships and establishing new partnerships within Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods to reach new audiences and create a platform for Chicagoans to share their voices.drawing on more than three decades of experience in Chicago Public Schools to provide vital, high-quality arts education to Chicago’s students through Lyric Unlimited education and community engagement programming.offering our core product of eight outstanding mainstage operas and one musical theater production each season, attracting some of the most accomplished artists in the world and leveraging the vast talent of Chicago to create art of the absolute highest caliber.Under the leadership of General Director, President & CEO Anthony Freud, Music Director Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director Designate Enrique Mazzola, and Special Projects Advisor Renée Fleming, Lyric is committed to leading the advancement of the art form and redefining what it means to experience great opera today.Įach season, Lyric ignites transformation in our community by:

Through artistic excellence coupled with innovative, relevant programming, Lyric delivers ever-more exciting, thought-provoking, and inclusive audience and community experiences. Lyric Opera of Chicago’s mission is to express and promote the life-changing, transformative, revelatory power of great opera.

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