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Guild Opera Company Will Host 5 SOPRANOS in Concert


by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2025

Guild Opera Company is presenting a 5 Sopranos Concert with opera's best mad scenes to highlight the magnificence of the soprano voice and its capabilities. Learn more here!...

Golda Zahra Returns For Performance in Beverly Hills


by Stephi Wild - May 08, 2025

On May 24, Golda Zahra will erturn to her hometown to perform a free community concert under the stars at the Beverly Cañon Gardens. Learn more about the performances here!...

Review: AINADAMAR: THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS at LA Opera


by Andrew Child - May 02, 2025

The piece feels like a sophisticated relative of Cirque du Soleil and, with a striking funeral procession, a chorus of women villagers, and a revolving quartet of confessions, somehow also lands like a well-worn gem of musical theatre....

Review: COSÍ FAN TUTTE at LA Opera


by Andrew Child - March 10, 2025

Whether thanks to Cavanagh’s approach or director Shawna Lucey’s reinventions, the opera never seems to warrant excuse or apology. Justin Austin and Anthony León never miss a chance for silliness, strutting about the stage with ridiculous levels of machismo to match their preposterous mustache disgu...

Roy Hage Joins Original Cast of West Coast Premiere Of ADORATION at LA Opera


by Stephi Wild - February 20, 2025

GRAMMY-nominated Lebanese-American tenor Roy Hage made his LA Opera debut this week, joining the original cast of Adoration for its West Coast premiere in collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects. ...

Music Director James Conlon To Depart LA Opera After 20 Years; 40th Anniversary Season Lineup Announced


by A.A. Cristi - February 11, 2025

LA Opera has announced details for the company's 40th anniversary season, which will launch on September 20, 2025. In his 20th season with the company—his final season as Music Director before becoming Conductor Laureate—James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other m...

Review: Kelli O'Hara in Concert at LA Opera


by Andrew Child - February 02, 2025

O’Hara has approached the entire evening with such severe gravitas and humble respect that familiar messages seem to land fresh on even jaded ears. How else are we meant to keep singing right now?...

Interview: Kelli O'Hara On Her Upcoming Performance with the LA Opera Orchestra


by Shari Barrett - January 16, 2025

Oklahoma native Kelli O'Hara won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I. She then went on to win accolades for reprising the role in London and Tokyo. A frequent performer on PBS's live telecasts...

LA Opera to Revive Gounod's ROMEO AND JULIET Directed by Kitty McNamee


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 23, 2024

LA Opera will present the revival of Gounod's ROMEO AND JULIET, marking Kitty McNamee's directorial debut. McNamee will also choreograph, promising a fresh take on the classic. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Review: TURANDOT at LA Opera


by Andrew Child - May 22, 2024

A sharp blade wielded threateningly, forced perspective creating looming palatial walls, the rotting heads of failed suitors, and a princess literally shrouded in mystery quickly orient us within Puccini’s iconic fairytale....

Past Shows

Adoration
2/20 - 2/23/2025


Adoration makes its West Coast premiere at LA Opera, featuring GRAMMY-nominated tenor Roy Hage in his debut role as Sami. Composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian with ...

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
11/2 - 11/23/2024


Two feuding families rule Verona, with the Montagues and Capulets each determined to write their victory in blood. A chance meeting between Romeo Montague and ...

Madame Butterfly
Madame Butterfly
9/21 - 10/13/2024


Lights, camera, action: An American officer in turn-of-the-century Japan wants a bride, and a greedy marriage broker obliges, assuring him that the union can be ...

LA Opera at the Beach


Gather your blankets, lawn chairs, and picnic baskets to come experience the music and drama of Madame Butterfly under the stars. This opera gets a ...

LA Opera at the Beach


Gather your blankets, lawn chairs, and picnic baskets to come experience the music and drama of Madame Butterfly under the stars. This opera gets a ...

LA Opera in the Park
LA Opera in the Park
9/21 - 8/21/2024


Gather your blankets, lawn chairs, and picnic baskets to come experience the music and drama of Madame Butterfly under the stars. This opera gets a ...

An Evening with Renée Fleming


Soprano Rene Fleming, hailed as one of the greatest artists of our time, will captivate you with a performance that highlights her sumptuous voice, compelling ...

Otello
Otello
5/13 - 6/4/2023


He's a beloved leader, a distinguished military commander and a devoted husband. But when an envious subordinate introduces the notionjust the slightest whispered hintthat Othello's ...

Opera at the Beach


Free live broadcast of LA Opera's Otello at Santa Monica Pier. Gather your blankets and lawn chairs, pack your picnic and come ...

Opera on the Lawn


Free live broadcast of LA Opera's Otello at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Gather your blankets and lawn chairs, pack your picnic and come experience the ...

Pelléas and Mélisande
Pelléas and Mélisande
3/25 - 4/16/2023


Lost in the forest, a prince encounters an ethereal beauty with a mysterious past (and lush locks that would make Rapunzel envious). But after she's ...

The English Concert: Solomon


Theyre back! After an astonishing debut with Alcina in 2021, conductor Harry Bicket and his sensational orchestra, The English Concert, return with another dazzling baroque ...

The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro
2/4 - 2/26/2023


Something old, something new, something borrowed and something threatening to throw Figaros wedding plans into disarray. Count Almaviva's wandering eye has landed on his wife's ...

Russell Thomas at the Colburn


Audiences adore Russell Thomas's performances in the heroic tenor repertory in opera houses worldwide. But theres another side to this remarkable tenor's artistry: his ability ...

Juan Diego Florez in Recital


Early in his career, he got his first big break with a last-minute Italian debut in a role he learned in just a few days. ...

Tosca
Tosca
11/19 - 12/20/2022


Floria Tosca, the famous opera singer, seems to have it all. Audiences cherish her artistryand adore hearing about her tempestuous offstage romances. But as storms ...

Isabel Leonard and Pablo Sáinz-Villegas in Recital


One of today's brightest vocal stars joins one of the world's great guitar virtuosos for an unforgettable performance that will evoke the rich and magnificent ...

Omar
Omar
10/22 - 11/13/2022


In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a slave ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's ...

Frankenstein with Live Orchestra


We're back for our hugely popular annual Halloween mash-up of film and opera at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. This time weve got the Boris ...

Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor
9/17 - 10/9/2022


Lucia is trapped in an impossible situation. Her abusive brother hates the man she loves. Worse, he's forcing her to marry someone else in a ...

Aida
Aida
5/21 - 6/12/2022


Relationships are hard work. Especially when it's between a prisoner of war and her captor. Oh, and their love has to remain a secret (for ...

St. Matthew. Passion
St. Matthew. Passion
3/12 - 3/27/2022


Awe-inspiring in its complexity, universal in its appeal, Bach's St. Matthew Passion is considered by many to be the single greatest masterpiece of western sacred ...

Cinderella
Cinderella
11/20 - 12/12/2021


In this comedy, true love conquers all even a pompous stepfather and two self-absorbed stepsisters.Rossinis delightfully entertaining spin on the ultimate rags-to-riches tale finds our ...

Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser
10/16 - 11/6/2021


After escaping an erotic entrapment with the goddess Venus, Tannhuser returns to the real world to pursue the virtuous love of a mortal woman. But ...

II Trovatore
II Trovatore
9/18 - 10/10/2021


Dangerous passions, fatal mistakes and terrible secrets leave two families filled with a bitter thirst for revenge. To make matters worse, two brothers unwittingly fall ...

Oedipus rex


Stravinsky based Oedipus Rex on the ancient Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophoclesyes, the one where Oedipus unknowingly kills his own father and ...

Candide
Candide
1/27 - 2/18/2018


Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole star in Bernstein's round-the-world romp! Freewheeling and funny, satirical and soaring, Candide takes the audience on a whirlwind tour of ...

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