(Photo credit: Weaver) The Center Square Foundation has released findings on LA Opera from its on-going investigation into government spending on nonprofits. The Foundation is digging into data to determine which nonprofits serve legitimate needs and which are a waste or misuse of taxpayer money. The findings are based on IRS tax return filings that are made public for nonprofits. {…}
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 {…}
(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 {…}
(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 {…}
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, {…}
The LA Opera has announced a cast change for its 2026-27 season of “Candide.” The company said Deanna Breiwick will no longer be able to perform Cunegonde and will be replaced by Meghan Picerno. Breiwick also took to social media an said, “I want to share that I’ll be stepping away from Cunegonde in LA Opera’s upcoming production of Candide {…}
(Photo credit: L2 Artists) LA Opera will present Les Talens Lyriques and countertenor Key’mon Murrah in “Handelian Heroes” at Zipper Hall at The Colburn School on May 24, 2026. Murrah will perform arias from four of Händel’s “Ariodante,” “Julius Caesar,” “Xerxes,” and “Rinaldo.” Also on the program are instrumental works including the Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 2 and the {…}
LA Opera has announced the members of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program for the 2026-27 season, with four new arrivals joining five returning members. New singer members include soprano Alexis Seminario, tenor Samuel Wallace, and baritone Mario Manzo, chosen through preliminary auditions in New York, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles, with finals held before a panel that included Music Director James {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
(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 {…}