LOS ANGELES OPERA NEWS COVERAGE - PAGE 2

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, including Cosi fan tutte, running March 8th through 30th, 2025. Watch a video preview of the production below!...

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, including Romeo and Juliet, running from November 2nd through 23rd. Watch a video preview of the production here!...

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, which includes Madame Butterfly, running September 21st through October 13th. Watch the video preview of the production here!...

LA Opera has announced its 2024/25 season, including AINADAMAR: THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, which runs from April 26th through May 18th. Watch a preview of the production here!...

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, including a production of Rigletto, starring Quinn Kelsey. Watch a video preview of the production here!...

LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season. Music Director James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other mainstage performances led by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados and by guest conductor Domingo Hin...

Guild Opera Company presents a captivating double bill of Puccini's IL TABARRO & SUOR ANGELICA. ...

ISOLA–a prismatic meditation on time, mental health and isolation– is the new opera by composer Alyssa Weinberg with a text by poet J. Mae Barizo that launches Long Beach Opera's 2024 Season. ...

Guild Opera Company presents a 5 Tenors Concert showcasing the incredible talents of Dongwhi Baek, Elias Berezin, Chris Hunter, Felipe Prado, and Emesh Wijewardena. Join them for an unforgettable evening of beloved classics and mesmerizing performances....

Morrison Projects announces West Coast performances of MAGDALENE at The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles. ...

Long Beach Opera announces a generous gift of $1.25 million from Carol Richards. Major donations and grants are also announced, and single tickets are now on sale....

Broadway legend Audra McDonald returns to LA Opera backed by the LA Opera Orchestra and her four-piece ensemble (led by musical director Andy Einhorn) December 2, 2023. Be prepared to experience the stunning vocals of six-time Tony winner singing her expansive Broadway and opera repertoire filling t...

Watch clips from Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE at LA Opera, running now through November 12th!...

Heading into the holiday season, Pacific Opera Project (POP) hosts Handel's Mess-Cider Sing-A-Long on Monday, December 11, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. at Benny Boy Brewing. ...

Pacific Opera Project is launching its inaugural Artist Recital Series featuring Cabaret Confidential and American Cabaret. Enjoy a matinee program of cabaret-style songs by classical composers and explore a diverse array of culture and language through a selection of incredible and rarely heard Am...

GRAMMY Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem will host a free masterclass on Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 1:00PM at MiMoDa Studio in Los Angeles....

Don't miss the LA premiere performances of Scalia/Ginsburg and Trial by Jury, presented as a double bill by Pacific Opera Project. ...

Valley Opera and Performing Arts (VOPA) presents a uniquely relevant production of Puccini’s cherished opera, La Boheme....

On the heels of a sizzling summer, The Music Center and its TMC Arts programming division, its resident company campus partners (Center Theatre Group, LA Opera, LA Phil and the Los Angeles Master Chorale) and Gloria Molina Grand Park are ready to embrace the fall season with an abundance of exciting...

Pacific Chorale, celebrated for its artistic innovation and compelling performances, announces a range of bold and dynamic programming for the 2023-24 season, showcasing the sublime power of the human voice raised in song....

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association will present Pacific Opera Project in concert on Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. on the lawn of the Tournament House....

Angels Vocal Art (AVA) will present Puccini's classic, TOSCA in a Gala Performance at the Manoukian Performing Arts Center in Pasadena. Reception to follow....

For its second annual LB Opera & Film Festival, Long Beach Opera presents THE RECITAL; a day's worth of expansive programming that explores the intersection of film and opera with new live stagings and a robust and unexpected slate of filmic content that breaks through the boundaries between these t...

The Industry, a trailblazing arts organization known for staging groundbreaking site-specific performances across Los Angeles, has announced the appointment of Tim Griffin as its new Executive Director effective June 20, 2023. With more than two decades of leadership experience among prominent arts ...

Pacific Opera Project (POP) has announced its 2023-2024 season of performances, marking a season of growth and expansion with pop-up performances and events around Los Angeles as well as in POP's new headquarters, POP HQ AKA “The POPera Shop” in Highland Park. ...

LA Opera has announced the 2023 recipients of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award: conductor Lina González-Granados and bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee....

At 7:30pm on Saturday, May 13, 2023, LA Opera's production of the towering operatic masterpiece will be transmitted live in high-definition video from nine cameras at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to large LED screens at California State University, Dominguez Hills and the Santa Monica Pier....

Legendary mezzo-soprano and LAO Young Artist Artist Director Susan Graham is back on the DCP stage in her role debut as Geneviève in 'Pelléas and Mélisande.' We sat down with her to ask about her inspiring start in opera, her role as a mentor, and the advice she has for the up-and-coming generati...

After 12 years of pop-up performances and nomadic operations at locations around Los Angeles, Pacific Opera Project (POP) has a new permanent residence in Highland Park. Located at 125 S. Avenue 57, POP HQ AKA 'The POPera Shop' is next door to (and owned by) one of POP's most beloved venues, The Hig...

The Irish Tenors have been the acknowledged Celtic music kings since they burst upon the scene during a 1998 special. With ten best selling CD's to their credit, they share company with the likes of The Three Tenors and Andrea Bocelli as the biggest money makers PBS has presented....

Pacific Opera Project (POP) presents the US premiere production of the rare Vivaldi opera, Ercole su'l Termodonte, almost 300 years to the day from its original premiere with eight performances at The Highland Park Ebell Club from Friday, January 6, 2023 to Saturday, January 21, 2023....

Building on Long Beach Opera’s legacy of pushing operatic boundaries and boldly taking performance into uncharted territories, the 2023 Season will continue to bring new energy and relevance to the form with a series of surprising, immersive, and accessible operatic experiences....

Los Angeles middle and high school students will experience the West Coast premiere of Omar, LAO's first mainstage opera by Black composers (Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels). The opera is inspired by the life of Omar Ibn Said, whose 1831 autobiography is the only known American narrative of sla...

LA Opera is continuing its 2022/23 season with the West Coast premiere of Omar, a new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens (who also wrote the libretto) and Michael Abels. Performances will take place from October 22 through November 13, 2022, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion....

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Jaime Martín presents Gil Shaham, “among the most inspired violinists of his generation” (The Guardian), on Dvořák's dazzling Violin Concerto in A minor, colored with the folk music of the composer's Czech roots, on Sunday, December 1...

LA Opera will open its 2022/23 season with a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti's spellbinding tale of marriage, madness and murder. Lina González-Granados leads the proceedings in her debut outing as the company's new Resident Conductor....

Peter Sellars will direct the Los Angeles Philharmonic performances of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director of the LA Phil. The performances will include Bill Viola’s video....

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) caps its season with Current: Heartbeat curated by noted interdisciplinary composer Shelley Washington (she/her) and featuring a range of compelling new classical music in an intimate and relaxed setting during L.A. Pride, taking place Saturday, June 11, 2022, 8 ...

Recognizing the extraordinary need for more programs and initiatives that incorporate arts into health and wellness practices, arts and health organizations across Los Angeles County have partnered to create a multi-day series of events to promote a deeper understanding of the essential connection b...

“Washington Square”, a romantic chamber opera adaptation of the novel of the same name by Henry James, will have its world premiere in the Hollywood Fringe Festival....