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Lyric Opera of Chicago announces its spectacular 2024|25 Season. The 70th anniversary season includes a potent mix of four beloved classics in grand productions, plus two contemporary works (both by female composers), the return of Sondra Radvanovsky, the debut of Patti LuPone, and more special events. Read More.
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The Civic Opera House, also called Lyric Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The Civic's main performance space, named for Ardis Krainik, seats 3,563, making it the second-largest opera auditorium in North America, after the Metropolitan Opera House.
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Lyric Opera House history. The world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago performs in one of North America's most beautiful opera houses, the Lyric Opera House at 20 North Wacker Drive. Opened as the Civic Opera House in 1929, the building was the vision of utility magnate Samuel Insull (1859–1938), a populist billionaire known as "the Prince of ...
The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower (plus two 22-story wings) located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The building opened November 4, 1929, and has an Art Deco interior. It contains a 3,563-seat opera house, the Civic Opera House, which is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America.
Chicago's first opera house opened in 1865 but was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871. The second opera house, the Chicago Auditorium, opened in 1889. [2] In 1929 the current Civic Opera House on 20 North Wacker Drive was opened, though the Chicago Civic Opera Company itself collapsed in the Great Depression.
Twitter. The Civic Opera House is one of Chicago’s most valuable gems. Its Art Deco interiors harken back to the golden era in which it was built. Also called Lyric Opera House, the theater located at 20 North Wacker Drive opened in 1929.
