Lyric Opera Building.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Chicago


Tickets are hard to come by for this bold modern opera company, which fills the chandeliered Civic Opera House with a shrewd mix of common classics and daring premieres from September to May. If your Italian isn’t up to snuff, don’t worry – the company projects English ‘supertitles’ above the proscenium.


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