Lyric Opera 2025-2026 Special #3 - Mary Poppins

9 | Lyric Opera of Chicago 13 ANTHONY PARNTHER CONDUCTOR Lyric Debut Parnther is currently in his seventh season as Music Director of California’s San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. Other highlights this season include the New York Philharmonic’s season-opening gala, New Year’s Eve celebrations with The Philadelphia Orchestra, performances at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and subscription performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Parnther has conducted artists ranging from Joshua Bell and Jessye Norman to Cynthia Erivo and John Legend, and has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and Chineke! Orchestra, with which he made his debut at London’s BBC Proms; as well as the Gateways Festival Orchestra, at concerts including the orchestra’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut. He will make his Boston Pops debut this summer conducting Cynthia Erivo at Tanglewood. Parnther has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge- Taylor, as well as a newly edited critical edition of Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3, which he recently performed with the Baltimore Symphony. Parnther led the revival of Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five at Long Beach and last year at the Detroit Opera, and has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass. Active as a film conductor, Parnther has conducted or performed on more than 1,000 movie scores. Recent conducting projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Disney’s Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Nope, Creed III, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Sinners, Tenet, American Dad!, Turning Red, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, League of Legends, and the Oscar- and Grammy-winning Oppenheimer soundtrack. Artist profile 20 lyricopera.org/explorelyric Sunday, April 26 Explore Your Lyric A day of fun and adventure for all ages. Photo:Kyle Flubacker Lyric Opera of Chicago thanks its OfficialAirline, UnitedAirlines, and acknowledges support from the IllinoisArts Council. 2025/26 Presenting Season Sponsor