News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

LA OPERA

Six Singers Named Winners of the 2023 Met Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competitio
by Stephi Wild - April 24, 2023

The Met presents the winners of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition: tenor Anthony León, mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis, soprano Teresa Perrotta, mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino, bass-baritone Christian Simmons, and soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth. ...

Metropolitan Opera Announces a Cast Change For THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
by Stephi Wild - May 03, 2022

Raehann Bryce-Davis will sing Baba the Turk in the May and June performances of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, replacing Alice Coote....

Opera Saratoga to Present Free New Year's Eve Concert
by A.A. Cristi - December 08, 2021

Opera Saratoga and Proctors Collaborative announce a free New Year's Eve concert at Universal Preservation Hall (UPH) in Saratoga Springs, featuring Broadway and Opera Star Zachary James with pianist Laurie Rogers. ...

VIDEO: Get A First Look At IL TRAVATORE At LA Opera - Streaming 10/3 and 10/6
by Alan Henry - September 22, 2021

LA Opera is back in a big way: an epic new-to-LA production of this ever-popular tale of revenge, dangerous passions and fatal mistakes. Two brothers find themselves fighting on opposite sides of a war...and for the love of the same woman....

VIDEO: Get A Sneak Peek at LA Opera's Signature Recitals Featuring Russell Thomas, Su
by Alan Henry - June 24, 2021

Get a sneak peek at three of our Signature Recitals featuring Russell Thomas, Susan Graham and J'Nai Bridges.  Hurry, you must purchase access by June 30th and watch by July 1st. ...

BWW Feature: Virtual Opera Streaming 21-28 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - April 23, 2021

On Wednesday, April 21, We begin this week’s tour with one of the Los Angeles Opera website’s most popular “Living Room Recitals.” Soprano, Latonia Moore sings with pianist Roberto Berrocal. After the recital, we leave for NYC. On arrival, we go to Shut Up and Eat, a most generous Toms River restaurant that offers a discount to patrons in pajamas. ...

Carla Lucero's THE THREE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM Premieres At The Cathedral Of Our Lady Of
by A.A. Cristi - April 01, 2021

LA Opera has commissioned composer and librettist Carla Lucero to write The Three Women of Jerusalem (Las Tres Mujeres de Jerusalén), an opera to be performed in 2022 by a cast of hundreds in a monumental staging at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, with hundreds of additional performers joining in virtually from around the world. ...

LA Opera Announces Online Events For This Week
by Stephi Wild - September 11, 2020

While LA Opera awaits its cue to return to live performances onstage, the company has turned to creating an array of online content through the LA Opera At Home initiative, which will soon expand to include a series of exciting new Digital Shorts commissions....

LA Opera Announces Online Events For the Week of August 3
by Stephi Wild - July 31, 2020

During its hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO At Home. Here's what's on tap for the week to come....

LAO At Home Events Announced for the Week Of July 5
by A.A. Cristi - July 02, 2020

During its hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO At Home. Here's what's on tap for the week to come....

LAO At Home Events Announced for the Week Of June 15
by A.A. Cristi - June 12, 2020

During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO At Home....

LAO At Home Events Announced For Week Of June 1
by A.A. Cristi - May 29, 2020

During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO at Home. Here's what's on tap for next week....

LA Opera's Annual 'Opera Camp' Goes Virtual This Summer
by A.A. Cristi - May 27, 2020

Since 2001, young music lovers between the ages of 9 and 17 have gathered together at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to sing, create and challenge themselves through LA Opera's annual summer Opera Camp. Faced with the new challenges of our time, the company swiftly made adaptations to enable this important program to continue serving the young people of Los Angeles County — this year's Opera Camp will take place in virtual studios and rehearsal rooms. This new adjustment assures the continuity of...

Pacific Opera Project Announces Interactive Watch Party For Video Game-Inspired Produ
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 28, 2020

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 5pm PST, Pacific Opera Project (POP) presents an interactive watch party for a rebroadcast of POP's 2019 critically acclaimed season opening production of Mozart's The Magic Flute (#SuperFlute), set in classic video games from the early 1990s....

Check out a List of Operas to Stream This Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 27, 2020

With theaters shut down across the globe, venues are finding ways to bring content online. Theaters, Operas, Symphonies and more are presenting digital programming for our viewing pleasure. Check out a list of operas to stream this week!...

LAO Announces At Home Events For Week Of April 20
by A.A. Cristi - April 17, 2020

During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO at Home. Here's what's on tap for next week....

Philip Glass's AKHNATEN Has Its Met Premiere November 8
by Julie Musbach - October 21, 2019

The Metropolitan Opera presents the company premiere of Philip Glass's modern masterpiece Akhnaten on November 8, 2019, with performances continuing through December 7....

LA Opera Presents PSYCHO —Live With Orchestra This Halloween
by A.A. Cristi - October 09, 2019

LA Opera's annual residency at the extraordinary Theatre at Ace Hotel has become one of Halloween's most anticipated traditions. This year, cinephiles and music lovers alike can experience Alfred Hitchcock's horror masterpiece Psycho with its classic Bernard Herrmann soundtrack score played live by the LA Opera Orchestra....

Plácido Domingo Departs LA Opera Amid Harassment Inquiries
by Alan Henry - October 02, 2019

The New York Times reports that Plácido Domingo has departed the LA Opera as general director and will no longer appear in any upcoming performances, which were has last scheduled upcoming concerts in the USA amidst a series of allegations against him of harassment. ...

Placido Domingo Stars In LA Opera's EL GATO MONTES
by A.A. Cristi - April 24, 2019

Plácido Domingo, LA Opera's Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, has announced final details about the company's upcoming presentation of Manuel Penella's El Gato Montés: The Wildcat, an opera brimming with the exuberance of zarzuela, the popular Spanish form of musical theater....

p R I S M By Ellen Reid Wins Pulitzer Prize
by A.A. Cristi - April 15, 2019

Columbia University just announced the winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes. Receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Music was the opera “p r i s m' by composer Ellen Reid, presented by LA Opera Off Grand and Beth Morrison Projects earlier this season....

LA Opera Presents Company Premiere of THE CLEMENCY OF TITUS
by Rebecca Russo - February 21, 2019

​​​​​​​Plácido Domingo has announced the latest details about LA Opera's company premiere of Mozart's The Clemency of Titus....




Videos


Recommended For You