Linda Jackson

Sydney Festival returns this January to give the city its sizzle with an exhilarating line-up of vibrant ideas, irrepressible creativity, remarkable talent and pure summertime revelry across 25 days from 5-29 January 2023. 

Global Musical Bridges and the City of West Hollywood will present their first annual classical outdoor concert, Opera in the Park, showcasing internationally acclaimed classical singers from across Europe and North America on October 23 at 3pm. 

Know My Name, the National Gallery's ongoing gender equity initiative, is a celebration and a commitment to women artists – intending to recast a male-dominated art history and reimagine a more inclusive future at the Gallery and beyond.

Kati Neiheisel, a 2018 MAC Award nominee for her New York Debut, Among the Stars, is brings her love of Christmas to Don't Tell Mama in her new show That Holiday Feeling! on Thursday, December 5th at 7 PM and Saturday, December 14th at 4 PM. She will be joined by singers Janice McCune and Linda Jackson, with musical direction and arrangements by Gregory Toroian, Skip Ward on bass and David Silliman on drums. The show is directed by Geoffrey Stoner.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera, Resident Opera Company at Mount Olive Lutheran Church of Santa Monica presents "Cosi Fan Tutte" ("Women Are Like That") by composer W.A. Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center's offsite presentation of Alchemy of Punk-a live punk opera and a work-in-progress from Berlin by Aneta Panek-just for one evening at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Michael Kessler and Melinda Jackson of M&M American Dance Theatre is bringing their 30 year love story to the stage. The song and dance team will perform 'CONTACT!' at the South Point's 400-seat showroom on May 21.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community company that offers grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford, will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, AIDA, on four dates in June. Tonight, June 6th at 7pm and Sunday, June 7th at 2:30pm, the opera will be performed at Cantwell Auditorium at Saint Monica's Church in Santa Monica.  On Today June 13th at 3pm and Sunday June 14th at 3pm, performances will take place at All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community company that offers grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford, will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, AIDA, on four dates in June.  On Saturday June 6th at 7pm and Sunday, June 7th at 2:30pm, the opera will be performed at Cantwell Auditorium at Saint Monica's Church in Santa Monica.  On Saturday June 13th at 3pm and Sunday June 14th at 3pm, performances will take place at All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community company that offers grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford, will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, AIDA, on four dates in June.  On Saturday June 6th at 7pm and Sunday, June 7th at 2:30pm, the opera will be performed at Cantwell Auditorium at Saint Monica's Church in Santa Monica.  On Saturday June 13th at 3pm and Sunday June 14th at 3pm, performances will take place at All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community Opera Company which stages grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, DON CARLO on four dates: Tonight, February 21st and February 22nd, 28th and on March 1, 2015. The performances take place at All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles and at St. Augustine-By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community Opera Company which stages grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, DON CARLO on four dates: February 21st, 22nd, 28th and on March 1, 2015. The performances take place at All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles and at St. Augustine-By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community Opera Company which stages grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, DON CARLO on four dates: February 21st, 22nd, 28th and on March 1, 2015. The performances take place at All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles and at St. Augustine-By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.

For those aged 13 – 17 there is the first ever Art Party today 22 January at NGV International, a night of music, food, fashion and art-making. Curated by the NGV in collaboration with young designers SIGNAL (themselves 13 – 25) activities include a Silent Disco, DJS, workshops with contemporary artists and designers including a jewellery design workshop withKate Rohde and collage artist Minna Gilligan and after-hours access to the exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier. Like our Friday Nights music series, the Art Party will give teens a chance to experience Jean Paul Gaultier and music at the gallery with exclusive after-hours access.

For those aged 13 – 17 there is the first ever Art Party on Thursday 22 January at NGV International, a night of music, food, fashion and art-making. Curated by the NGV in collaboration with young designers SIGNAL (themselves 13 – 25) activities include a Silent Disco, DJS, workshops with contemporary artists and designers including a jewellery design workshop withKate Rohde and collage artist Minna Gilligan and after-hours access to the exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier. Like our Friday Nights music series, the Art Party will give teens a chance to experience Jean Paul Gaultier and music at the gallery with exclusive after-hours access.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet) is a local community Opera Company presenting grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford. LAMet will stage Giuseppe Verdi's thrilling UN BALLO IN MASCHERA on four dates: October 25-26, and November 1-2, 2014 in downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet) is a local community Opera Company presenting grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford. LAMet will stage Giuseppe Verdi's thrilling UN BALLO IN MASCHERA on four dates: October 25-26, and November 1-2, 2014 in downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

On Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm members of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera company will sing music of the masters, including pieces by Bizet, Cilea, Mozart, Delibes, and Verdi. The concert will take place in the Central Library Rotunda in Downtown Los Angeles at 630 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

On Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm members of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera company will sing music of the masters, including pieces by Bizet, Cilea, Mozart, Delibes, and Verdi. The concert will take place in the Central Library Rotunda in Downtown Los Angeles at 630 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

Live opera, “up close and personal,” returns for three days to Southern California with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera's (LAMet) June 2014 production of Mozart's brilliant comic opera DON GIOVANNI. The loves, debaucheries, and supernatural punishment of the title character, the rake Don Juan, will come memorably to life at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica on Sunday June 8th at 2:30pm. The production then moves to Good Samaritan Hospital's All Souls Chapel in downtown Los Angeles Saturday June 14th at 7:00pm, and Sunday June 15th at 3:00pm. For tickets and more information visit The LAMet's website at www.losangelesmet.com, or call 310-570-6448. Suggested donation is $25 per ticket in advance, $35 at the door.