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.

2011 Performances:

• April 15-24, 2011: Shen Yun Performing Arts
• April 30, 2011: American Cancer Society Discovery Ball
• May 15, 2011: DePaul Law Graduation
• June 3, 2011: Rosalind Franklin School of Medicine and Science Graduation
• June 10, 2011: The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Graduation
• June 11, 2011: DePaul Dept. of Education, Music, Theatre & SNL Graduations
• June 12, 2011: Lincoln Park High School Graduation