Long Beach Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opened with “The Turn of the Screw” at the UCLA Freud Playhouse. James Darrah directed the opera, and Rakefet Hak conducted. Performance Dates: Nov. 20 & 21, 2025 In 2026, the company will present “Crash Out Queens: A Tiffany Townsend Recital” at Altar Society in Long Beach. Soprano Tiffany Townsend will {…}
(Photo by Claire Harvie) Long Beach Opera has announced that its 2025 programming will center on the work of Pauline Oliveros. Oliveros (1932-2016) is a famed American composer known for her work in experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center and explored the concepts of “deep listening” and “sonic awareness” in {…}
After announcing the cancelation of “Asunción” a few weeks back, Long Beach Opera has announced its replacement in the form of “Bye Bye Butterfly.” The experimental work by Pauline Oliveros will take place at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown LA on July 20 and 21, 2024 and features Habin Kim, Kathryn Shuman, Laurel Irene, Leela Subramaniam, and Orson {…}
Long Beach Opera has canceled the world premiere of “Asunción.” The work was scheduled to open on July 13, 20 and 21 and was set to be co-presented with Latino Theater Company and East LA Creative. “This decision was made after careful consideration, with LBO deeply respecting the artists involved and their creative process,” said the official statement issued by {…}
Long Beach Opera is set to present the world premiere of “ISOLA,” a prismatic meditation on time, mental health, and isolation by composer Alyssa Weinberg with a text by poet J. Mae Barizo. The production, which will be performed on Feb 3, 10, and 11, 2024, will be designed as both an opera and an art installation: a visual and sonic intimate {…}
The Long Beach Opera has announced it has received the largest single gift in the company’s history of $1.25 million from long-time Board member Carol Richards. Richards served on LBO’s Board from the company’s inception in 1979 until her passing in 2021, at which time she included Long Beach Opera in her estate plans with this historic gift. The company {…}
Long Beach Opera has announced its 2024 season, which will center on women composers and librettists with two world premieres, and an opera film, among other offerings. First up is Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo’s “Isola.” George R. Miller directs and Lucy Tucker Yates conducts. Ariadne Greif stars. The work “engages questions and sensations of identity, multiplicities of self, {…}
Long Beach Opera has named Marjorie Beale as its President of the Board of Directors. She started her tenure on June 28, 2023. She will take over for Dr. Robert N. Braun who held the position since 2016. Beale joined the board of directors in December 2021 and also previously served from 1997-2003. Per an official press statement, “Beale’s track {…}
Long Beach Opera is set to present the world premiere of “The Romance of the Rose” on Feb. 18, 2023. The new work by Kate Soper will run for a total of three performances, ending its run on Feb. 25, 2023. Audiences can check it out at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro. Per an official press statement, the {…}
Long Beach Opera has announced its 2023 season. The season will open with “The Romance of the Rose” by Kate Soper. The world premiere, which will take place at the Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro will be directed by James Darrah. Performance Dates: Feb. 18 – 25, 2023 Next up is “The Horse,” which will feature Chris Emile and {…}
Long Beach Opera has announced the inaugural LBO Film Festival, which will take place on July 16-17, 2022 at the Art Theatre in Long Beach CA 90814. The festival is co-curated by Bradford Nordeen of Dirty Looks and LBO Artistic Director James Darrah. Programming will include a variety of artists with live performances presenting the projects of filmmakers, dancers, composers {…}