Lyric Opera Presents: Langston Hughes, A Lyrical Life

Name: Lyric Opera Presents: Langston Hughes, A Lyrical Life
Start: 2026-04-02T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-02T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 625 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS 66101

Schedule

Thu Apr 02 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

625 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS 66101 | Kansas City, KS

Registration required for this event. Sign up here at: https://www.kckpl.org/langston%20hughes%20lyrical%20life
Join The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library for a free performance of Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life at our Main Library location. Please register below so we can save you a seat!
Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life celebrates the life and legacy of one of America’s most influential literary voices. Born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, Hughes was an early innovator of jazz poetry and a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. This semi-staged musical and literary experience honors Hughes’s extraordinary legacy and amplifies his singular voice and texts, illuminating the universal human experiences of joy, struggle, and aspiration.
This free, 60-minute performance is presented by Lyric Opera of Kansas City and will feature original narrations written by Alyson Cambridge. For more information about the performance please visit kcopera.org.