Lyric Theatre @ Illinois | University of Illinois Archives

The Lyric Theatre @ Illinois program was established by the School of Music in January 2014 as a comprehensive music performance program for a broad continuum of opera and musical theatre. Students in the program learn techniques to help  prepare for the professional artistic singing, acting, and movement demands of the 21st-century musical stage. Since its founding, Lyric Theatre mounts three fully-staged productions of musical theatre and opera each year that is performed by students in the University's Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. In addition the program produces numerious small-studio opera workshop scenes as hands-on learning projects.

The Lyric Theatre Program is a continuation of the University's Opera Theatre educational program which began in the early 1970s under the direction of Tom Schleis and the School of Music vocal faculty.