Lyric Opera 2025-2026 Issue 5 - BLAC

7 | Lyric Opera of Chicago John Mangum General Director Enrique Mazzola Music Director RUNNING TIME : 85 minutes with no intermission PROGRAM Giacomo Puccini Tosca ,“Mario! Mario! Mario!” Angela Brown (Tosca) (1858 –1924) Chaz’men Williams-Ali (Cavaradossi) Giuseppe Verdi Un ballo in maschera ,“Re dell’abisso affrettati” Lucia Bradford (Ulrica) (1813 –1901) Otello ,“Vane… Credo in un Dio crudele” Lester Lynch (Iago) Christoph Willibald Gluck Alceste ,“Divinités du Styx” Laquita Mitchell (Queen Alceste) (1714 –1787) Jules Massenet Thaïs ,“C’est toi, mon père” Jacqueline Echols (Thaïs) (1842 –1912) Kenneth Overton (Athanaël) Georges Bizet Carmen ,“Habanera” Alyson Cambridge (Carmen) (1838 –1875) Vincenzo Bellini I puritani ,“Suoni la tromba” Lester Lynch (Riccardo) (1801 –1835) Kevin Short (Giorgio) Puccini Tosca ,“E lucevan le stelle” Chaz’men Williams-Ali (Cavaradossi) Verdi Otello , “Si pel ciel” Issachah Savage (Otello) Reginald Smith, Jr. (Iago) Rigoletto ,“Caro nome” Jacqueline Echols (Gilda) Aida ,“Ciel, mio padre” Laquita Mitchell (Aida) Kevin Short (Amonasro) “O terra addio” Angela Brown (Aida) Chaz’men Williams-Ali (Radamès) Lucia Bradford (Amneris) Richard Wagner Lohengrin ,“Mein lieber Schwan” Issachah Savage (Lohengrin) (1813 –1883) Florence Price “Song to the Dark Virgin” Kenneth Overton (1887 –1953) Margaret Bonds “Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho” Lucia Bradford (1913 –1972) Betty Jackson King “It’s Me, Oh Lord” Reginald Smith, Jr. (1928 –1994) Bonds “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” Tutti