John Mangum, General Director, President, and CEO of Lyric Opera, joins WFMT to preview the company’s upcoming season. Single tickets go on sale June 26. Learn more HERE.
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 Season with John Mangum
John Mangum (Photo: Kyle Flubacker)
Playlist
Pietro Mascagni: “O Lola ch’ai di latti la cammisa” (Siciliano) from Cavalleria Rusticana
Piero Pretti, tenor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
Gaetano Donizetti: “Quel sangue versato” from Roberto Devereux
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Lyric Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Riccardo Frizza
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Sento, oh Dio, che questo piede” from Così fan tutte
Renée Fleming, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Frank Lopardo, tenor
Olaf Bär, baritone
Michele Pertusi, bass
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Georg Solti
Richard Strauss: “Ach! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst” from Salome
Nina Stemme, soprano
Gerhard Siegel, tenor
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano
Carl Orff: “O fortuna” from Carmina Burana
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
Gabriel Fauré: En sourdine
Renée Fleming, soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
Giacomo Puccini: “Ancora un passo or via” from Madama Butterfly
Anna Moffo, soprano
Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf
George Frideric Handel: “Saprà delle mie offese” from Serse
Daniela Mack, mezzo-soprano
The English Concert/Harry Bicket
Antonio Vivaldi: “Agitata da due venti” from Griselda
Key’mon W. Murrah, countertenor
Bourbon Baroque/John Austin Clark, harpsichord and direction
Private recording used with kind permission of artists
