Lyric Opera's New Season

Lyric Opera's New Season

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2015-2016 season opens September 26th with Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.  Recordings, DVDs, scores, and librettos for it and other operas of the coming season are listed on our web site's Lyric Opera Resources page.  Links from that page will take you to the items in our catalog, showing availability and location.  Lyric Opera of Chicago's own online resources are available at its Lyric U(nlimited) page.

This season's operas are listed below.  Match them up with with the one-phrase plot summaries taken from the Lyric Opera of Chicago's opera descriptions, and bring your answers into the Reference desk before Oct. 1st.  If your answers are correct, you'll receive a Lake Forest Library sticky note booklet, pictured here!

1. Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)    a. “...he meets his match in Anna...”  

2. Cinderella (Rossini)               b. “He's a Montague and she's a Capulet...” 

3. Merry Widow (Lehar)             c. “Politics. Religion. A dangerous love triangle.”
4. Bel Canto (Lopez)                       d. "more salon drama and backroom maneuverings than a whole season of Downton Abbey" 
5. Nabucco (Verdi)                    e. “a poverty-stricken soldier is working to support Marie and their young son”

6. Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)   f. “unlikely alliances form between captors and captives”

7. Romeo and Juliet (Gounod)    g. “mean girls aren't the Prince's style”
8. King and I (Rodgers)              h. “she's so rich that the economy of her homeland depends on her marrying a local”

9. Wozzeck (Berg)                     i. “Sophie receives an engagement rose from the Baron.”