The Civic Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. It is part of a building which contains a 45-story office tower and two 22-story wings. This structure opened on November 4, 1929 and has an Art Deco interior. Its opera house has 3,563-seats, making it the second-largest opera auditorium in North America after the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. While built for the Chicago Civic Opera, it was purchased by and is the permanent home of the Chicago Lyric Opera.

The opera house underwent a major renovation in 1993 when it was purchased by the Chicago Lyric Opera, which had previously rented the space. The chairs were repainted and reupholstered, the carpeting replaced, and the gilt paint completely re-stenciled. The massive project was completed in 1996.

2008/2009 Season Shows:

• Manon
• The Pearl Fishers
• Lulu
• Porgy and Bess
• Madama Butterfly
• Tristan und Isolde
• Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
• The Abduction from the Seraglio
• Stars of the Opera
• Holly and Ivy