There will be chances to win tickets to the 2021/22 Season during the evening, and the first 2,000 guests to arrive will receive a free Lyric giveaway item. Join the conversation by tagging in your posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Special ensemble selections from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Bernstein’s Candide will close out the evening. The concert will open with a crowd favorite - Rossini’s William Tell Overture, performed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra. Highlighting the program will be several excerpts from Lyric’s upcoming season: Verdi’s Macbeth, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, Puccini’s Tosca, and Blanchard/Lemmon’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Ryan Opera Center - sopranos Mathilda Edge, Maria Novella Malfatti, and Denis Vélez mezzo-sopranos Katherine Beck, Katherine DeYoung, and Kathleen Felty tenors Martin Luther Clark and Lunga Eric Hallam baritone Leroy Davis basses Rivers Hawkins and Anthony Reed conductor/pianist Donald Lee III and pianist Chris Reynolds. Appearing with the Lyric Opera Orchestra, the concert features the members of The Patrick G. Lyric will follow all up-to-date safety guidelines and protocols of Millennium Park and The City of Chicago to ensure that audiences are comfortable and safe.Įnrique Mazzola, Lyric’s new music director, will be on the podium to conduct Lyric’s first live performance in nearly 18 months. Lyric’s outdoor concerts at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion have historically attracted large crowds to the seating bowl, great lawn, and surrounding areas of the park.

This free outdoor performance, presented in cooperation with The City of Chicago and Millennium Park, is part of Chicago in Tune, a citywide festival celebrating our city’s legendary music community. on Sunday, August 29ĬHICAGO () - Lyric Opera of Chicago launches its 67th season with Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Sunday, August 29, at 6:00 p.m. Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Starsįree outdoor concert at Millennium Park begins at 6:00 p.m.

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