Editing Lyric Opera of Chicago (section)

==Civic Opera House==
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[[File:Lyric Opera of Chicago interior.jpg|250px|thumb|The Ardis Krainik Theatre in the Civic Opera House]]
The company's permanent home is the [[Civic Opera House (Chicago)|Civic Opera House]], sections of the building which it rented from 1954 until after the 1993 renovations, when it bought those facilities. It is a 1929 structure with an [[Art Deco]] interior. Its 3,276-seat capacity makes it the second-largest opera auditorium in [[North America]] after the [[Metropolitan Opera|Metropolitan Opera House]] in New York City. The interior was named ''The Ardis Krainik Theatre'' in 1996 in honor of Ardis Krainik, the former General Director, who was responsible for its renovation from 1993 onwards.

===Joffrey Ballet===

In 2017, Lyric Opera of Chicago as house manager of the theater announced that the [[Joffrey Ballet]] planned to move from its longtime performance venue at the [[Auditorium Theatre]] to the opera house in 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ae-lyric-joffrey-jones-1001-story.html |title=How the Lyric and Joffrey's new partnership will change cultural Chicago |last=Jones |first=Chris |work=chicagotribune.com |access-date=2017-12-22 |language=en-US}}</ref> The announcement coincided with Lyric's presentation of a new production of [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck's]] ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'' by choreographer [[John Neumeier]]; the production fused the musical and ballet elements of the opera and featured the Joffrey Ballet.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-lyric-joffrey-orphee-review-20170924-story.html|title=Review: Triumphant new 'Orphee' presages strong partnership of Lyric Opera, Joffrey Ballet|last=von Rhein|first=John|date=September 24, 2017|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=12 March 2018}}</ref>