LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With just over two weeks until opening night of the L.A. Opera's production of Il Trovatore, a major drama is playing out behind the scenes. The performers are ready, the props ...

LA Opera announced Tuesday it will present two free performances of Benjamin Britten's "Noah's Flood'' next month at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, featuring a cast ...

The LA Opera is alive and thriving, with a robust lineup of programs for its 2026/2027 season, reflecting the diversity of Los Angeles. Through imaginative new productions, world premiere commissions, ...

This post was updated May 28 at 8:46 p.m. For one UCLA alumnus, resilience and rigorous training translate to vocal prowess. Sarah Saturnino will be playing Maddalena in the Los Angeles Opera’s ...

Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses. “Rigoletto” remains an opera reminding us ...

Christopher Koelsch, the Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco President and CEO of LA Opera, has announced details for the company's 2026/27 season, which will launch on October 17, 2026. In his first ...

Domingo Hindoyan, the chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, will take over next year as music director of Los Angeles Opera. Hindoyan will replace James Conlon, who has held ...

Osvaldo Golijov’s beauteously strange “Ainadamar” has reached Los Angeles. The opera, one of this century’s most gratifying, portrays the 1936 political execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca ...

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It is no wonder this source material thrived in Jonathan Larson’s adaptation, Rent, seeing as the story of destitute artists fighting to survive under the heels of the wealthy continues to resound ...

In 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins phoned Leonard Bernstein with an idea for updating “Romeo and Juliet” into a contemporary Broadway musical. Robbins didn’t know what it would be, but he knew what ...

The production, created specifically for grand opera houses, has its West Coast premiere Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: “Restoring the original scale and glory to certain pieces … is what ...