The Kauffman Center, home to resident organizations the Kansas City Ballet, Lyric Opera, Kansas City Symphony, and other innovative programming, embraces a variety of audiences with different tastes, interests and passions. At the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, everyone can have an opportunity to experience excellence. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts’ vision is to enrich the lives of communities throughout the region, country and world by offering extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences.