safronia tickets

For two performances only, Lyric presents a striking world-premiere opera commissioned from Chicago’s first Poet Laureate, avery r. young.

safronia journeys into the heart of the Great Migration, where generations of hope, upheaval, joy, and loss converge. Told through the eyes of a family yearning to connect to their roots, this Afro-surrealist story blends memory and myth to reveal a rich, deeply human portrait of a family shaped by resilience and the search for home.