LA Opera’s 40th Anniversary Season Marks Growing Impact Across Los Angeles

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The LA Opera has reported that its 40th anniversary season proved to be a year of exceptional audience response, community engagement, and momentum. The 2025-26 season was marked by added performances and sold-out mainstage productions to hundreds of community-based events in schools, hospitals, parks, neighborhoods and cultural centers across Los Angeles County. The season also concluded James Conlon’s 20-year tenure {…}

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Aquiles Machado to Leave Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña

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Aquiles Machado has announced he is leaving his position as Artistic Director of the Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña. Machado will leave at the end of the 2026 season. Machado began his tenure in 2022 and throughout the last years has been responsible for the programming of the seasons. During his time as Artistic Director, Machado has seen {…}

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Alannah Garnier to Lead African Americans for LA Opera’s Concert at The Ebell

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Soprano Alannah Garnier is set to perform at The Ebell. Each season, African Americans for LA Opera (AALAO) present a fall recital, a history seminar with recital during Black History Month, and the annual Father’s Day celebration, along with other activities. This year, Garnier and pianist Charlie Kim perform at the annual “Ben Kerr Father’s Day Recital.” Garnier is a {…}

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Merola Opera Program to Present Merola Grand Finale

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San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program will close its 2026 Summer Festival with the annual Merola Grand Finale. The performance marks the culmination of the season, bringing together participants for a vibrant showcase of operatic selections at the War Memorial Opera House. This summer’s program will feature 28 artists selected by Merola from over 1,500 international applicants with participants from Europe, {…}

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Mala Opera House, Kyiv Philharmonic & National Art Museum Damaged

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(Photo credit: BBC Russian Service & Mala Opera House) On the evening of May 24, Russia launched a massive air strike on the Ukrainian capital, leaving the Mala Opera house, Kyiv Philharmonic, and National Art Museum damaged. According to BBC Russian Service there were at least two people killed and 86 others injured, along with 54 locations damaged. This attack {…}

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Renée Fleming’s LA Opera Recital Changed to Cross-Genre Collaboration with Béla Fleck, New Date & Venue Announced

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) LA Opera has announced that its previously scheduled June 20 recital with Renée Fleming at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion has been reimagined as a cross-genre collaboration with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck. The showcase case, now titled “Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck: The Fiddle and the Drum,” is now set for Sept. 22, 2026 at Walt Disney {…}

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LA Opera to Present ‘The Magic Flute’ with Sydney Mancasola & Miles Mykkanen

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(Credit: Cory Weaver) LA Opera’s 40th Anniversary Season concludes with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The company will revive Barrie Kosky’s production with James Conlon conducting, in his 20th and final season as the company’s Music Director. In a statement, Christopher Koelsch, LA Opera’s President and CEO said, “For two decades, James has been the artistic heart of LA Opera. While {…}

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Renée Fleming to Host LA Opera’s Fifth Annual Arts & Health Week Summit

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LA Opera has announced its fifth annual Los Angeles County Arts and Health Week Summit, set to take place on June 12 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Soprano Renée Fleming, who serves as LA Opera’s Special Projects Advisor and as a World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health, will host and introduce the day-long event, {…}

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Merola Opera Program to Present ‘La Tragédie de Carmen’

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San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program is set to present “La Tragédie de Carmen.” The condensed, stark adaptation of Bizet’s “Carmen,” created by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Marius Constant, presents the opera in a raw and psychologically intense form. The work will be conducted by Merole Almuni Stephanie Rhodes Russell and directed by another Merola alumni Mo Zhou. “La Tragédie {…}

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LA Opera’s 40th Anniversary Season Marks Growing Impact Across Los Angeles

Aquiles Machado to Leave Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña

Alannah Garnier to Lead African Americans for LA Opera’s Concert at The Ebell

Merola Opera Program to Present Merola Grand Finale

Mala Opera House, Kyiv Philharmonic & National Art Museum Damaged

Renée Fleming’s LA Opera Recital Changed to Cross-Genre Collaboration with Béla Fleck, New Date & Venue Announced

LA Opera to Present ‘The Magic Flute’ with Sydney Mancasola & Miles Mykkanen

Renée Fleming to Host LA Opera’s Fifth Annual Arts & Health Week Summit

Merola Opera Program to Present ‘La Tragédie de Carmen’