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Performance
4:36 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

Lyric Opera Officially Opens New Center

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Recently retired general director Evan Luskin and Artistic Director Ward Holmquist prepare to cut the ribbon.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
The production building is named for longtime supporters, Michael and Ginger Frost.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
The administration building is named for patron Beth Ingram.
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Inside the set vault, where the company stores props and 10 - 12 sets for operas like La bohème.
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A dragon greets visitors as they step inside the set vault in the production building.
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Decorative elements on the ceiling in the production building.
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General Director Deborah Sandler says the new center is "a declaration of where we want to go and who we want to be."
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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City on Friday marked the official opening of its new $10.5 million, two-building facility in the Crossroads Arts District.

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Opera/Performance
5:00 am
Fri March 9, 2012

Opera Explores Tensions And Symbolism In Nixon's Visit To China

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Supertitles (text of the lyrics) will be provided during performances of "Nixon in China" as pictured here during the dress rehearsal.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Cast members anticipate the beginning of the ballet.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Director Michael Cavanagh and Richard Paul Fink (as Kissinger as brutal landlord Lao Szu) demonstrate hip thrusts.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Richard Paul Fink (as Kissinger as brutal landlord Lao Szu) and Nadia Iozzo (as peasant Wu Ching-Hua).
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Scenes from a rehearsal: A tableau in the revolutionary ballet.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Richard Nixon (James Maddalena) and Pat Nixon (Maria Kanyova) try to intervene to help the peasant girl in the ballet (played by Nadia Iozzo).
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Scenes from a rehearsal: The Nixons (Maria Kanyova and James Maddalena) and dancers in the revolutionary ballet (Logan Pachciarz and Nadia Iozzo) look to director Michael Cavanagh.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Richard Nixon (James Maddalena) and Pat Nixon (Maria Kanyova) share a moment at a recent rehearsal at the Lyric's Opera Center.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Artistic Directors Bill Whitener (Kansas City Ballet) and Ward Holmquist (Lyric Opera of Kansas City) observe a recent rehearsal.
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Company dancers check in with Kansas City Ballet's Bill Whitener, dance choreographer for "Nixon in China."
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Scenes from a rehearsal: Kansas City Ballet dancers rehearse the revolutionary ballet in "Nixon in China." Director Michael Cavanagh, pictured at right.
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It’s difficult today to imagine a time when the United States and China didn’t have trade relations or communicate at all. But, in 1972, President Richard Nixon’s visit to China, a once-demonized Communist regime, was heralded as “the week that changed the world.”

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Opera/Performance
10:16 am
Tue January 25, 2011

Lyric Opera Announces Season in Kauffman Center

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The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, one of the three resident companies at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, has announced its 2011-2012 season, its first in the new venue. As KCUR's Laura Spencer reports, the announcement began with a twist.

By Laura Spencer

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