Lyric Opera of Chicago launches its 71st season with the company premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s Medea, opening Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Lyric Opera House. This monumental production—directed ...

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Scorned and seething since 431 B.C.E., Medea has raged across the centuries as an empathetic emblem of the human consequence of paternalistic betrayal — by a man for whom a Golden Fleece was just not ...

A revival of Bellini’s “Norma” features Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, leading a cast that also includes Kate Aldrich, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and James Morris; Riccardo Frizza. (Oct. 4 and Oct.

Most singers who perform with Lyric Opera of Chicago are artistic nomads who live elsewhere. They spend six to eight weeks here for rehearsals and performances, then they depart for their next ...