LA Opera Announces 2026 Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award Winners

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LA Opera has announced the 2026 recipients of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award. This year tenor Duke Kim and soprano Kathleen O’Mara received the award. The Stern Artist Award was established in 2021 by Eva and Marc Stern, two of the greatest champions and most dedicated supporters in the history of LA Opera. Each artist will receive $25,000. In {…}

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Merola Opera Program Reveals 2026 Summer Season

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(Photo Credit: Kristen Loken) The Merola Opera Program has announced its 2026 Summer Festival season. The Summer Festival opens with “L’Anima Napoletana,” a vocal and piano recital curated by Merola faculty member Mario Antonio Marra. The program presents Neapolitan songs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, performed in Italian and Neapolitan dialect with English supertitles. Performance Date: June {…}

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LA Opera to Present ‘Noah’s Flood’

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The LA Opera’s professional artists will collaborate with more than 300 volunteer members of the Los Angeles musical community to present two free performances of Benjamin Britten’s “Noah’s Flood” at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The work will be conducted by Music Director James Conlon with performances taking place on May 8 and 9, 2026. The performance {…}

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Pensacola Opera Unveils 2026-27 Season Featuring Amber Monroe, Luis Alejandro Orozco & Ben Gulley

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Pensacola Opera has unveiled its 2026-27 season. “Pensacola Opera’s 44th Season promises to be one of enduring tradition, celebrating the full range of human emotion, and we cannot wait to share another extraordinary year of opera with the community,” said Chandra McKern, General Director, per an official press release. First up is “The Falling and the Rising, which will feature a {…}

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Amigos Canarios de la Opera 2025-26 Review: Otello

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The title role of Verdi’s “Otello” is one of the hardest roles ever written for a tenor in the Italian repertoire. Luciano Pavarotti simply recorded it while Carlo Bergonzi (who was considered a Verdi expert) and Franco Corelli always refused to sing it. On the other hand, Plácido Domingo debuted the role when he was 34 years old, and though {…}

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Craig Colclough Lead LA Opera’s ‘Falstaff’ Production

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(Credit: Robert Millard) LA Opera is set to revive Giuseppe Verdi’s final masterpiece, “Falstaff.” Conducted by Music Director James Conlon and starring bass-baritone Craig Colclough in the title role, the opera will be performed between April 18 and May 10, 2026. The cast also includes soprano Nicole Heaston as Alice Ford and mezzo-soprano Hyona Kim as Mistress Quickly, along with {…}

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Merola Opera Program Raises $380,000 at 2026 Benefit Gala

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(Photo credit: Jessica Monroy for Drew Altizer Photography) The Merola Opera Program raised over $380,000 at its 2026 Benefit Gala, “La Bella Voce: A Night of Merola,” on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at the City Club of San Francisco. The evening honored Bernice Lindstrom with the Exemplary Service Award, recognizing her long-standing support of artist sponsorships and her profound impact {…}

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LA Opera Names New Concertmaster

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LA Opera has appointed violinist Alyssa Park as Stuart Canin Concertmaster of the LA Opera Orchestra. Park, who will make her first appearances in the role in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff,” opening April 18 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, becomes only the second person to hold the named chair, established in perpetuity by Dunard Fund USA to honor Stuart Canin, who served {…}

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Merola Opera Program & San Francisco Opera Center Present 2026 Schwabacher Recital Series

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(Photo credit: Matthew Washburn) The Schwabacher Recital Series presented by Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center returns with a series of three recitals. The series opens on April 1 with three of the 2024 Merola alumni and second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows, soprano Mary Hoskins, baritone Olivier Zerouali, and pianist Ji Youn Lee. The evening’s program, curated {…}

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LA Opera Announces 2026 Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award Winners

Merola Opera Program Reveals 2026 Summer Season

LA Opera to Present ‘Noah’s Flood’

Pensacola Opera Unveils 2026-27 Season Featuring Amber Monroe, Luis Alejandro Orozco & Ben Gulley

Amigos Canarios de la Opera 2025-26 Review: Otello

Craig Colclough Lead LA Opera’s ‘Falstaff’ Production

Merola Opera Program Raises $380,000 at 2026 Benefit Gala

LA Opera Names New Concertmaster

Merola Opera Program & San Francisco Opera Center Present 2026 Schwabacher Recital Series