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Anthony Freud

General Director, President & CEO/Until Aug 2024 · Lyric Opera of Chicago

General Director, President & CEO/Until Aug 2024 at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 1 organization on the Form 990 record.

Ambiguous identity This name matches 1 other individual we could not verify as the same person. Each is kept as a separate record below — treat them as distinct people unless an explicit match is confirmed.
Organizations
1
Roles reported
1
Reported compensation
$1.2M
Others who share this name
1

Who this is

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✓ Verified from filings
Reported as General Director, President & CEO/Until Aug 2024 of Lyric Opera of Chicago, based in Chicago, IL.
Received $1.2M in total reported compensation on the most recent Form 990 (Part VII).
Facts extracted directly from each organization's Form 990, Part VII.
Biography Web-sourced

Anthony Freud served as General Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2011 to 2024, leading a transformative 13-year tenure that included 68 new productions, 32 Lyric premieres, and 9 world premieres. He was the first leader recruited from outside the company in its seventy-year history and previously directed the Welsh National Opera (1994–2005) and Houston Grand Opera (2006–2011).

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Tenure here
2011-2024 (13 years); retired end of 2023-24 season

Affiliations

Organizations

Lyric Opera of Chicago General Director, President & CEO/Until Aug 2024 · $80.8M revenue · Chicago, ILWe believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep,…pay $661K → $1.2MFiled FY2024 · Source: Form 990, Part VII
$1.2Mreported comp

Disambiguation

Other people named Anthony Freud

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A
Anthony Freud 1 organization · New York, NYOpera America INC

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Serves alongside

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E
Vice-Chair & Music Director · FY2024
$622K
E
Asst Secretary, CAO, Deputy General Director · FY2024
$536K
R
Asst Treasurer/Cfao (until Dec 2022) · FY2022
$446K
D
Chief Operating Officer & Deputy General Director · FY2022
$439K
V
Asst Treasurer & Cfoo · FY2024
$332K
M
Former Asst Secretary, Director of Development · FY2020
$306K
M
Chief Artistic Officer · FY2024
$296K
M
Chorus Director & Head of Music · FY2024
$287K
K
Vice President for Principal Gifts/Until Dec 2024 · FY2024
$269K
J
Vice President, People & Culture · FY2024
$258K
P
Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer · FY2022
$250K
L
Vice President, Marketing and Communications · FY2019
$227K

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Public data from IRS Form 990 e-file & the Business Master File. Individuals appear here because they were named as an officer, director, or key employee on a nonprofit's Form 990; people are grouped by name plus corroborating evidence (Schedule R, shared address, shared board members). · philanthropy.org