Free Lyric Opera Concert Millennium Park

When: Sunday, August 29, 2021 6:00PM-7:30PM

Where: Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E. Randolph St.

Each year experience the Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars at Millennium Park. Pack your picnic basket and enjoy a free outdoor performance featuring some of opera’s most thrilling music.

The music

The program will be several excerpts from Lyric’s upcoming season: Verdi’s Macbeth, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, Puccini’s Tosca, and Blanchard/Lemmon’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The concert will open with Rossini’s William Tell Overture, performed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra. Special ensemble selections from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Bernstein’s Candide will close out the evening..

The stars

Enrique Mazzola, Lyric’s new music director, will conduct Lyric’s first live performance in nearly 18 months. Appearing with the Lyric Opera Orchestra, sopranos Mathilda Edge, Maria Novella Malfatti, and Denis Vélez; mezzo-sopranos Katherine Beck, Katherine DeYoung, and Kathleen Felty; tenors Martin Luther Clark and Lunga Eric Hallam; baritone Leroy Davis; basses Rivers Hawkins and Anthony Reed; conductor/pianist Donald Lee III; and pianist Chris Reynolds.