Title: General Director,
Lyric Opera
Responsibility: Since 2011
Freud has overseen an in-theblack operating budget that
approached $65 million in
the 2012–13 season.
A Rare Breed: Freud is just
the fourth person to hold the
position of general director
in the Lyric's history.
Vision for the Future: "It seems
that we exist to provide a broad,
deep, relevant cultural service to
Chicago. I'm very conscious of the
fact that for too many years, too
many arts organizations existed
in hermetically sealed bubbles,
looking inward, not outward."
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PHOTOGRAPH BY BILLY ROOD
Anthony Freud
1/9/14 5:11 PM
