Just added! Broadway powerhouses Laura Benanti and Brian Stokes Mitchell kick off the 2025/26 Season on October 10. Plus two delightful, family-friendly nights of superb live music and classic films light up the Lyric stage.
Join us for a thrilling night of entertainment when Tony Award-winning stars of stage and screen Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Benanti are onstage for one night only with the full force of the Lyric Opera Orchestra. You’ll be swept away by a program that features Broadway favorites, jazz classics, and beloved selections from the Great American Songbook that will stay with you long after the curtain falls. Be a part of this very special event where you’ll have the chance to mingle with fellow arts lovers and celebrate a new cultural season at Lyric. We don’t want you to miss a moment of the music!
Join Lyric for Disney and Pixar’s Coco in Concert Live to Film (Oct. 16 and 18), and experience the Oscar®-winning film for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for "Remember Me," with its vibrant musical score by Oscar® and Grammy®-winning composer Michael Giacchino performed live.
Get ready for high-energy fun as Mary Poppins, Disney’s five-time Academy Award®-winning film, comes to life on the big screen April 10 and 11! Featuring favorites like "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Chim Chim Cher-ee," and the unforgettable "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" — you’ll hear the Sherman Brothers’ complete score performed live in all of its splendor.
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Lyric’s 2025/26 Season is presented by the Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation.
Lyric’s presentation of Cherubini’s Medea is generously made possible by Lisbeth Stiffel, Julie & Roger Baskes, and Marlys A. Beider.
Lyric’s presentation of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci are generously sponsored by Josef & Margot Lakonishok and Sonia Florian.
Lyric’s presentation of Billy Corgan’s A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness is generously made possible by Abbott.
Lyric’s presentation of Mozart’s Così fan tutte is generously made possible by The Negaunee Foundation and Randy L. & Melvin R.* Berlin.
Lyric’s presentation of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is generously made possible by Lisbeth Stiffel, Invenergy, ITW, and Randy L. & Melvin R.* Berlin.
Lyric’s presentation of Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego is generously made possible by the Zell Family Foundation and the Pritzker Foundation.
Lyric’s presentation of avery r. young’s safronia is generously made possible by the Pritzker Traubert Foundation.
Maestro Enrique Mazzola is generously sponsored by Alice & John Butler, H. Gael Neeson, Sylvia Neil & Daniel Fischel, the Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation, Mary Stowell, and the Zell Family Foundation as members of the Enrique Circle.
Lyric Opera of Chicago acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
*deceased
Photos: Philip Groshong/Cincinnati Opera, John Shaw/Lyric Opera of Chicago, Kyle Flubacker, Marvin Joseph, Sulyiman Stokes