

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lyric Opera Presents: Langston Hughes, A Lyrical Life
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: 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.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kansas-city/lyric-opera-presents-langston-hughes-a-lyrical-life/200029811405425
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, entertainment, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 315

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029811405425?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=kansas+city-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Kansas City
- **state**: KS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 625 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS 66101
- **lat**: 39.1145
- **long**: -94.62515
- **full address**: 625 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS 66101, 625 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, KS 66101-2805, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Kansas City, Kansas Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/kansas-city-kansas-public-library/12071275)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 625 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS 66101, 625 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, KS 66101-2805, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, music, entertainment, live-music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Lyric Opera Presents: Langston Hughes, A Lyrical Life ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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