Join us for a showcase performance by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center 2021/22 Ensemble with members of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra conducted by Lyric’s Music Director Enrique Mazzola. This year’s program centers on the music of Romantic-era composer Jacques Offenbach and other French repertoire of the time. Join hosts Lisa Flynn and Roger Pines …

The second year ensemble member Chris Reynolds drives the variety of this program, showcasing his formidable skills as both a soloist and collaborative pianist, as well as his penchant for K-pop (Korean popular music). Reynolds accompanies mezzo-soprano Katherine DeYoung in an aria by Richard Wagner, songs of Richard Strauss and Erik Satie, and a jazz standard. Reynolds also will perform …

Our Ryan Opera Center Recital features baritone Leroy Davis with pianist Donald Lee III performing some inspiring spirituals. As well as song cycles by Brahms. Poulenc, and by 20th and 21st century African American composer Robert Owens. We will also hear a selection from the contemporary opera “As One”.

Ryan Opera Center bass Anthony Reed along with Chris Reynolds on piano bring us a fascinating program of vocal bass works from the 16th to the 20th century.

Third year Ryan Opera Center member, mezzo-soprano Kathleen Felty, and first year pianist Donald Lee II are featured in a program which pairs Russian works of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui, and Sergei Rachmaninoff  with Latin American works by Federico García Lorca, Manuel Ponce, Daniel Catán, and Astor Piazzolla. We’ll also hear her perform “Urlicht” from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler …

In this program featuring mezzo-soprano Katherine Beck, works of Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Sondheim, and H. Leslie Adams are featured.

Our recital features Lunga Eric Hallam, Ricardo Jose Rivera, and Chris Reynolds. They will be performing baroque music by J.S. Bach and Handel, as well as songs from Italy, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic.

This recital features four members of the Ryan Opera Center: mezzo-soprano Katherine Beck, tenor Martin Luther Clark, bass Anthony Reed, and pianist Chris Reynolds. They will perform music that spans four centuries all about the joy, happiness, and heartache of love. We’ll also hear a cabaret song from Germany regarded today as the first ‘gay anthem’.

We have an eclectic program featuring four members from the Ryan Opera Center soprano Denis Vélez, mezzo-soprano Katherine DeYoung, baritone Leroy Davis, and pianist Chris Reynolds. We will feature songs about Spring, Summer, and Winter and have music from Dvořák’s Seven Gypsy Songs and from the musical Guys and Dolls.

We will feature three singers from the Ryan Opera Center along with pianist Chris Reynolds in an eclectic program. Soprano Maria Novella Malfatti will perform works by Verdi, Fauré, and Duke Ellington. Mezzo-Soprano Kathleen Felty will sing Satie, Poulenc, and Mexican composer Maria Grever. And bass-baritone David Weigel will be featured in compositions by Lili Boulanger and Alberto Ginastera.

Our recital features baritone Leroy Davis singing songs from Robert Schumann‘s Liederkreis and from 20th-century African American composer Robert Owens’ Mortal Storm. Pianist Chris Reynolds will perform piano solo works by Lili Boulanger, William Grant Still, and Astor Piazzolla.

In this recital we will hear music of JS Bach, Manuel de Falla, and African-American composers Robert Owens and H. Leslie Adams. Soprano Maria Novella Malfatti will perform the Argentinian classic song “La Rosa y el Sauce” by Carlos Guastavino and bass-baritone David Weigel will sing William Grant Still’s Songs of Seperation. They are joined on the piano by Ryan …

This recital features a wide spectrum of international vocal music. Soprano Denis Vélez will be performing works by the Mexican composers Manuel M. Ponce and Salvador Moreno Manzano and Spanish composer Joaquín Turina. Tenor Lunga Eric Hallam will be performing a work by South African composer Sibusiso Njeza written in tribute to Winnie Makadizela Mandela as well as Schubert’s 4 …

We will hear music of Dvořák and Massenet as well as songs by African-American composers whose work was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance movement. There’s also a witty song about a woman who has a interesting and very permanent passion. Mezzo-soprano Katherine DeYoung and bass Anthony Reed will be joined on the piano by Chris Reynolds.

Mezzo-Soprano Kathleen Felty and tenor Martin Luther Clark are featured in this recital with works by Jean Sibelius, Henri Duparc, and Alfred Bachelet. We will also hear Ms. Felty in Duke Ellignton’s powerful “(In My) Solitude” and Mr. Clark in contemporary composer Jake Heggie’s “Friendly Persuasions: Homage to Poulenc”. They will be joined on the piano by Chris Reynolds.

Featured on this recital is mezzo-soprano Katherine Beck and baritone Ricardo José Rivera. They will sing songs of Florence Price, Hugo Wolf, Carlos Guastavino, and H. Leslile Adams. Mr. Rivera will also be performing works from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Ms. Beck will give us a delightful rendition of song from the musical Ragtime. The will be joined on piano …

Contralto Lauren Decker and baritone Christopher Kenney are featured in this recital with Ryan Opera Center Music Director, Craig Terry on the piano.  Ms. Decker will be singing Britten’s song cycle A Charm of Lullabies and an aria from Ricky Ian Gordon’s Grapes of Wrath.  Mr. Kenny will also be singing a song cycle, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer as …

Ryan Opera Center tenor Eric Ferring along with ensemble members will perform Janáček’s song cycle Diary of One Who Disappeared. Told in 22 songs, the piece tells the story of love so powerful it overrides social boundaries.

Featured on this Ryan Opera Center recital, contralto Lauren Decker, tenor Eric Ferring and pianist Madeline Slettedahl perform popular Italian songs as well as songs by Richard Strauss and cabaret songs by William Bolcom.

Soprano, Emily Pogorelc is featured in this recital with guest pianist Christopher Reynolds. She will be variety of works from the 19th and 20th century including Schubert, Boulanger, Grieg, Sibelius and Rachmaninoff.

Ryan Opera Center Mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Decker and pianist Madeline Slettedahl bring us a recital in celebration of 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. Featured are works by women composers Florence Price, Alma Mahler, and Lili and Nadia Boulanger.

Ryan Opera Center tenor Eric Ferring along with ensemble members will perform Janáček’s song cycle Diary of One Who Disappeared. Told in 22 songs, the piece tells the story of love so powerful it overrides social boundaries.

On this program we will hear two musical sides of soprano Mathilda Edge and bass baritone David Weigel. In the first half of the program we hear classical works by Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg. In the second we hear music from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and popular tunes from Sidney Homer and Idabelle Firestone. Ryan Opera Center …

The annual showcase starring artists from Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center, joined by the Lyric Opera Orchestra and conducted by Ari Pelto.

Contralto Lauren Decker and baritone Christopher Kenney are featured in this recital with Ryan Opera Center Music Director, Craig Terry on the piano.  Ms. Decker will be singing Britten’s song cycle A Charm of Lullabies and an aria from Ricky Ian Gordon’s Grapes of Wrath.  Mr. Kenny will also be singing a song cycle, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer as …