Lyric Opera of Kansas City Lyric Opera of Kansas City launched Soundscapes in the City, a series of outdoor concerts, in August 2020. They plan to continue the series in 2021.
It s been a year since the Lyric Opera of Kansas City performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
On March 7, 2020, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City opened Lucia di Lammermoor at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Two performances in and the production closed when most of Kansas City, Missouri, shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Lyric still hasn’t returned to performances at the Kauffman Center, and so far no date is scheduled.
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Musical Theatre Heritage s The Music of Motown, filmed in a gallery in the Crossroads Hotel, features a musical revue of the Motown era of the 1960s and 70s. The production is streaming online through Feb.6.
Arts organizations cut costs and continue on-line offerings, as vaccine rollout gets underway.
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is taking a financial and emotional toll on the arts in Kansas City and elsewhere. In some cases, some of our donors have made, I think, a very conscientious and very conscious decision to allocate resources over to frontline workers and other parts of our community who are dealing with this pandemic, Kansas City Ballet executive director Jeff Bentley said. No one can fault them on that.”