Events Calendar

July 26 - August 6, 2010
Lyric Opera Summer Camp (10-18 years old)
Ten through eighteen-year-olds are invited to attend this fun, music-filled summer camp. Daily schedule includes singing and movement, dramatizing and listening to music from upcoming main stage operas, field trips, and visits from Lyric Opera artistic staff and singers. Entertaining, enriching, and challenging, Lyric Opera Summer Camp helps young people to appreciate the many facets of opera and to develop as singers while making new and lasting friendships. The 2010 Lyric Opera Summer Camp will be held from July 26 - August 6, 2010.
Download a 2010 Lyric Opera Summer Camp registration form

August 3, 2010
Carmen Dancer Auditions
The Lyric Opera will hold open dancer auditions August 3, 2010 for Carmen, which opens the 2010-2011 season. We need 4 male and 4 female dancers. Dancers must be a member of AGMA or willing to join. All auditions will be held at 712 E. 18th St., KCMO on May 10th. Times TBD. Audition form, headshot and resume and/or bio must be submitted to Sarah Zsohar at audition@kcopera.org by Wednesday, July 28th.
Click here to download the Carmen Dancer Auditions form

September 25, 29 and October 1, 3, 2010
Carmen
It is hard to imagine the opera world without its smokin’-hot gypsy. Carmen’s cruel seduction has been bewitching audiences since the opera’s premiere with fiery flamenco inspired melodies. Bizet’s smoldering classic, seething with seduction, will have you whispering “she had it coming” when the final curtain drops.
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November 6, 10, 12, 14, 2010
Norma
Bellini’s gorgeous score marries brilliantly with a story about a powerful woman forced to betray her sacred vows for love – only to be betrayed by her lover’s infidelity. In the ensuing struggle to save her name, her children, and her lover, Norma finds truth in the ultimate sacrifice.
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November 9-12, 2010
Lyric Opera Guild Trip - San Francisco
Join the Guild in San Francisco November 9-12, 2010 to see San Francisco Opera’s productions of Franco Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo, Leos Janacek’s rarely performed The Makropulos Case starring Karita Mattila and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly starring Daniella Dessi and Stefano Secco. For information about all the 2010-2011 trips contact Don Dagenais (by phone at (816) 444-7407), or click here to view the full brochure.
Download or view a signup form for the San Francisco trip

November 17-21, 2010
Lyric Opera Guild Trip - New York
Join the Lyric Opera Guild in the weekend before Thanksgiving for four operas in New York. On November 17-21, 2010 the Guild will visit New York for The Metropolitan Opera’s performances of Mozart’s Così fan tutte starring Danielle DeNiese; Donizetti’s hilarious Don Pasquale with Anna Netrebko and Barry Banks; Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Patricia Racette and Marcello Alvarez, and Bizet’s Carmen starring Elina Garanca and Nicole Cabell. For information about all the 2010-2011 trips contact Don Dagenais (by phone at (816) 444-7407), or click here to view the full brochure.
Download or view a signup form for the November New York trip

February 16-20, 2011
Lyric Opera Guild Trip - New York
Travel with Guild February 16-20, 2011 to see some of the most famous singers in opera today sing at the Metropolitan Opera. Performances include Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride starring Placido Domingo and Susan Graham; Rossini’s Armida with soprano Renée Fleming and tenor Laurence Brownlee and a repeat of the hilarious Don Pasquale with Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzoni. This trip to New York includes an interesting option. Guild members can choose to add-on a Saturday night performance of Nixon in China, featuring two recent Lyric Opera performers: John Maddalena (title role in John Brown) and Richard Paul Frank (title role in Rigoletto). For information about all the 2010-2011 trips contact Don Dagenais (by phone at (816) 444-7407), or click here to view the full brochure.

February 19, 23, 25, 27, 2011
The Daughter of the Regiment
Marie is a pretty little girl with a pretty big heart. When the orphaned Marie is adopted by a regiment of French soldiers, laughter erupts. This heartwarming story filled with catchy tunes, two handfuls of tenor high C’s, and one energetic singing tomboy, has a happy ending when love prevails over privilege.
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March 4-7, 2011
Lyric Opera Guild Trip - Sarasota
Travel with the Lyric Opera Guild to sunny Florida March 4-6, 2010 to see Sarasota Opera’s productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Robert Ward’s The Crucible and Verdi’s I Lombardi (Sarasota is doing a “Verdi cycle” of all the Italian master operas). There is also an optional performance of La Bohéme on Saturday evening. For information about all the 2010-2011 trips contact Don Dagenais (by phone at (816) 444-7407), or click here to view the full brochure.

April 9, 13, 15, 17, 2011
The Marriage of Figaro
It’s the day of Figaro and Susanna’s wedding, but they might be the only two who want it to happen. Can Figaro outwit the Count and deflect the distractions to claim his bride? In a whirlwind of miscommunications, hyperactive hormones and mistaken identities, true characters are revealed and everyone ends up merry in the end!
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April 20-24, 2011
Lyric Opera Guild Trip - New York
Join the Lyric Opera Guild once again in New York for more operas at the Metropolitan Opera. This trip will include performances by Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez in a rare performance of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Marcello Alvarez and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Wagner’s Die Walküre with Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kauffman; and Strauss’ Capriccio, starring Renée Fleming. For information about all the 2010-2011 trips contact Don Dagenais (by phone at (816) 444-7407), or click here to view the full brochure.

July-August, 2011
Lyric Opera Guild Trip - Germany and Austria
Travel to Europe with the Lyric Opera Guild! Join Eileen Broadie, a Guild member and Kansas Citian who formerly sang opera for 12 years in Germany, as she serves as your travel guide throughout the opera festivals in Germany and Austria. The 2011 schedules have not been finalized, but the trip will be somewhere between July 15 and August 15 and last a couple of weeks. For information about all the 2010-2011 trips contact Don Dagenais (by phone at (816) 444-7407), or click here to view the full brochure.