The season also includes a fall concert on Oct. The annual spring musical at Lyric returns June 3-25, 2023, although it is not a new production but a reprise run of Francesca Zambello’s production of “West Side Story,” seen at Lyric in 2019. The production is conducted by Henrik Nánási and directed by Marie Lambert.

The spring at Lyric also includes the return of Bizet’s “Carmen” (March 11-April 7, 2023) starring J’Nai Bridges, Charles Castronovo, Golda Schultz and Andrei Kymach in their Lyric debuts. Directed by Yuval Sharon, ”Proximity” is conducted by Kazem Abdullah in his Lyric debut Lyric’s special projects adviser Renee Fleming is the curator. This project features three new works with intertwining themes (they are designed to be experienced together) and features the Lyric debuts of composer Daniel Bernard Roumain working with Anna Deavere Smith as librettist Caroline Shaw, composer and co-librettist working with Jocelyn Clarke as co-librettist and John Luther Adams setting a text by the late poet John Haines.

The second world premiere is “Proximity,” a trio of new American operas (March 24-April 8). Dvid McVicar’s production will be conducted by Mazzola and feature Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Clémentine Margaine, Joshua Guerrero, Igor Golovatenko, Dmitry Belosselskiy and Soloman Howard. 9-25) presented at Lyric for the first time in its original five-act French version. debut of this staging of one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time, the work of the team of Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. This production debuted in 2017 at the Komische Oper Berlin the Lyric opening will mark the U.S. 17-Oct 7) conceived by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Kimberly Grigsby in her Lyric debut. The season continues with a new “operatically scaled” production of the Broadway musical “Fiddler on the Roof” (Sept.

1) conducted by music director Enrique Mazzola and directed by Louisa Muller, featuring Tamara Wilson, Russell Thomas, Quinn Kelsey and Christian Van Horn. The extensive season, a recovery from pandemic closures and interruptions, opens with Verdi’s “Ernani” (Sept. Wacker Drive, except “The Factotum” at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. All performances will be at Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Chicago’s Lyric Opera announced its 2022-23 season Tuesday, the venerable company’s 68th subscription season, focused on classic operas, Broadway musicals and new work.

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