Join us for a showcase performance by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center 2023/24 Ensemble with members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, conducted by Stefano Sarzani and directed by Patricia Racette. Don't miss this opportunity to hear some of the brightest rising stars of the opera world perform a variety of selections in the Ardis Krainik Theatre.

Tickets for this performance are free for donors, with a limit of two per order. Please reach out to Audience Services, 312-827-5600, if you are interested in making a contribution to reserve tickets.

The Festival’s opening program, Chicago's Own, will feature songs of composers who were born in Chicago as well as those who studied and taught at many of Chicago's universities and institutions.

​Among those born in Chicago are composers Ernst Bacon and Reena Esmail. We look forward to presenting works from composers who taught and trained at the American Conservatory of Music and Chicago Musical College (now Roosevelt University Chicago College for the Performing Arts), including Ned Rorem, Joseph Schwantner, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Their songs will be featured alongside some of those teaching and residing in Chicago today, including Clarice Assad, Stacy Garrop, Lita Grier and Eric Malmquist.
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KATHRYN HENRY, soprano
KUANG-HAO HUANG, piano
NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor & CAIC artistic director
ZOIE REAMS, mezzo-soprano

Join us for an evening of beautiful music as artists from The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center perform a variety of favorites from the 2022/23 Season accompanied by members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra and conducted by Enrique Mazzola, Lyric's music director. Bring a blanket, your favorite snacks, your fellow music lovers, and those you can't wait to introduce to opera for this free, fun and friendly, can't-miss summer delight that always ushers in a new cultural season on a high note.

Seating is first-come, first-served for this free event and no tickets are required.

Recital repertoire includes works by
Undine Smith Moore
Clara Schumann
Libby Larsen
Marguerite Canal
Joni Mitchell
Maddison Cunningham
Margeret Bonds

Tickets are free and not required, but space is limited. Pre-concert talk begins at 7pm

Kathryn makes her debut with the Walla Walla Symphony

Ethan Gans-Morse: How Can You Own The Sky?
Poetry by Tiziana DellaRovere
Dancing Spirit Native American Ensemble

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 “Choral” - IV. Finale: “Ode to Joy”

Leonard Bernstein: From Candide – “Make Our Garden Grow”
Kathryn Henry, soprano
Erica Brookhyser, mezzo-soprano
Katherine Goforth, tenor
Thomas Cannon, baritone
Mid-Columbia Mastersingers
Justin Raffa, Artistic Director

The central work of this program is Gabriel Faure’s Requiem. It is arguably the single most emotionally cathartic work in the history of music. Accompanied by the University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s choirs, the Racine Symphony Orchestra dedicates this concert to all who should be remembered – and for all of us who need to remember. Faure’s beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine and the winner of the Young Artists Competition will also be featured.

Pasquale Laurino, Conductor

Kathryn Henry, Soprano

This concert will feature selections from DONIZETTI’S Lucia di Lammermoor and BELLINI’S Norma, as well as a full performance of MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 “Italian”

Timothy Meyers, Conductor

Kathryn Henry, Norma

Renée Fleming, Host

Kathryn Henry, Soprano
Artyom Pak, Piano

Tamra Grace Jones, Soprano
Francesco Barfoed, Piano

Mer Wohlgemuth, Soprano
Pierre-Nicolas Colombat, Piano

Maire Therese Carmack, Mezzo-Soprano
Chun-Hsin Liu, Piano

Deepa Johnny, Mezzo-Soprano
Matías Ferreyra, Piano

Daniel Moody, Countertenor
Gracie Francis, Piano

Laurence Kilsby, Tenor
Ella O'Neill, Piano

Joseph Parrish, Baritone
Elias Dagher, Piano

Samuel Kidd, Baritone
Liza Armistead, Piano

Yue Wu, Bass-Baritone
Tongyao Li, Piano

Anthony Roth Costanzo, Host

Kathryn Henry, Soprano
Artyom Pak, Piano

Tamra Grace Jones, Soprano
Francesco Barfoed, Piano

Marie Therese Carmack, Mezzo-Soprano
Chun Hsin Liu, Piano

Daniel Moody, Countertenor
Gracie Francis, Piano

Joseph Parrish, Baritone
Elias Dagher, Piano

Renée Fleming, Host 

Kathryn Henry, Soprano
Artyom Pak, Piano 

Tamra Grace Jones, Soprano
Francesco Barfoed, Piano 

Mer Wohlgemuth, Soprano
Pierre-Nicolas Colombat, Piano

Deepa Johnny, Mezzo-Soprano
Matías Ferreyra, Piano 

Samuel Kidd, Baritone
Liza Armistead, Piano

Kathryn joins seven finalists to compete in The Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition.

Sylvia D’Eramo, soprano: “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka (Dvořák)
Kathryn Henry, soprano: “Al dolce guidami” from Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
Chasiti Lashay, soprano: “Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilèa)
Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano: “Dopo notte” from Ariodante (Handel)
Efraín Corralejo, tenor: “Salut demeure chaste et pure” from Faust (Gounod)
Blake Denson, baritone: “Ja vas Lyublyu” from Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
Evan Lazdowski, bass-baritone: “Quand la flamme de l’amour” from La Jolie Fille de Perth (Bizet)
Ricardo Ceballos de la Mora, bass: “Vous qui faites l’endormie” from Faust (Gounod)