The Lyric Opera of Kansas City will celebrate its 70th season with a lineup at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts consisting of four familiar titles culminating with a new, locally built production of Verdi’s “Aida.” In addition to “Aida,” the schedule announced Monday includes Puccini’s “La Bohème,” Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” and Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance.” The Lyric Opera has previously staged all three at the Kauffman Center — “La Bohème” in 2019, “The Marriage of Figaro” in 2016 and “The Pirates of Penzance” in 2017.
The Lyric Opera produced an earlier version of “Aida” in 2007 at the Lyric Theatre.
Deborah Sandler Kemper, the Lyric Opera’s general director and CEO, said in a release: “This season’s productions span a dynamic breadth of operatic expression, from Mozart’s signature opera, ‘Marriage of Figaro,’ to the Victorian comic opera of ‘The Pirates of Penzance,’ to Puccini’s influential story of the Paris art scene, ‘La Bohème,’ to a brand-new production, made in KC, of Verdi’s....
