Lyric Opera 2025-2026 Issue 8 - Salome

3 | Lyric Opera of Chicago 4 WELCOME TO YOUR LYRIC 6 A warm welcome from the Board Chair and General Director 7 Board of Directors 9 Jennifer Holloway joins a long line of legendary sopranos who have sung Salome at Lyric and around the world. 12 TODAY’S PERFORMANCE 15 Title page and cast 16 Synopsis 18 Opera Notes: How Richard Strauss transformed Oscar Wilde’s controversial and popular play into one of the repertoire’s most chilling operas. 22 Artist profiles 28 Orchestra and Chorus In this issue Salome | pp. 12-29 30 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT 32 Bravissimi 34 Production sponsors 35 Supporting our future — endowments at Lyric 36 Ardis Krainik Society 40 Corporate partnerships 42 Aria Society 46 Annual individual and foundation support 52 Commemorative gifts 54 Lyric staff 59 Artistic roster 56 RYAN OPERA CENTER 58 Distinguished alumni perform all over the globe. 60 LYRIC UNLIMITED 62 The new Pathfinders program helps Chicago students create and perform an opera from their own experiences. 64 People of Lyric: The Director of Company Management transforms the innumerable moving parts of opera-making into a well-oiled machine. Tristram Kenton / Royal Opera House