Lyric Opera 2025-2026 Issue 6 - Carmina Burana

13 | Lyric Opera of Chicago ADAM LARSEN PROJECTION DESIGNER Lyric debut The projection designer and documentary filmmaker has contributed to more than 250 productions in theatre, dance, symphony, and opera, collaborating with some of the leading voices in these fields. His diverse credits include Broadway’s LoveMusik (directed by Hal Prince), the world premieres of John Corigliano’s The Lord of Cries at Santa Fe Opera, Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, and David Lang’s Prisoner of the State with the New York Philharmonic. Larsen also designed The Gospel at Colonus (Athens, Edinburgh, Spoleto festivals), Esperanza Spalding’s 12 Little Spells tour, and the world premiere of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Singapore International Festival. Other credits include Janáˇcek’s From the House of the Dead at Canadian Opera; Bernstein’s Mass at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Lincoln Center; The Pelleas Project at the Cincinnati Symphony; Adams’s A Flowering Tree and Handel’s Agrippina at Opera Omaha; Britten’s Peter Grimes , Bernstein’s On the Town , Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov , and all 11 seasons of the SoundBox series at San Francisco Symphony. Adam has directed three semi-staged operas for the Houston Symphony — Bluebeard’s Castle , Oedipus Rex , and Salome — and conceptualized and crafted A Worm’s Eye View , an installation for autistic audiences that premiered at the Common Senses Autism Festival and was later presented at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. His films include Undersung , which chronicles the experiences of caregivers for severely disabled family members, and Neurotypical , which explores autism from the perspective of autistic individuals and premiered on PBS’s POV. Strauss Every obsession has consequences. Sometimes they’re deadly. lyricopera.org/salome Jan. 25 - Feb. 14 Photo:John Shaw/Lyric Opera of Chicago Lyric’s presentation of Strauss’s Salome is generously made possible by Richard O.Ryan . Lyric Opera of Chicago thanks its OfficialAirline, UnitedAirlines, and acknowledges support from the IllinoisArts Council. 2025/26 Presenting Season Sponsor Salome