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James Conlon wraps up an extraordinary 20-year run as Music Director.

A MAGICAL STORYBOOK

A visually dazzling Magic Flute filled with animation, silent-film flair, and fantastical imagery—from flying elephants to enchanted worlds.

LA Opera Young Artist Emily Damasco shares how music can uplift, heal, and connect—from the opera stage to hospital halls.

A bold new Carmen ushers in LA Opera’s next chapter with incoming Music Director Domingo Hindoyan.

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LA Opera Publications 2026

EDITOR Mark Lyons

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On the cover: Theo Hoffman as Papageno in LAO's 2019 production of The Magic Flute

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2026

Welcome to LA Opera

Dear friends:

As we bring our 40th Anniversary Season to a close, we do so with both celebration and deep gratitude. It has been one of the most rewarding and artistically successful seasons in our history, and one that has resonated powerfully with audiences. Night after night, we have seen an extraordinary outpouring of enthusiasm, and I am delighted to share that we have vastly exceeded our box office expectations. Quite simply, our audiences have loved what they have experienced on our stage—and for that, we thank you.

These performances of The Magic Flute mark a milestone of a different kind as well. They are the final performances to be conducted by our James Conlon in his 20th and concluding season as our beloved Music Director—his last opera with us in that capacity, before he happily returns next season as Conductor Laureate to lead The Marriage of Figaro.

For two decades, James has been the artistic heart of LA Opera. His leadership has shaped the sound of our orchestra, elevated our performances, and deepened our commitment to both the core repertory and to important rediscoveries. Through his vision, he has helped define what this company represents within the broader operatic world.

While this moment carries a sense of farewell, it is happily not an ending. Beginning next season, James will assume the role of Conductor Laureate, ensuring that his artistry and insight remain an integral part of LA Opera for years to come.

It is especially fitting that his final production as Music Director is The Magic Flute. Created by Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade, with animation by Paul Barritt, this joyous staging has become one of the most beloved in our history. Since its Los Angeles premiere in 2013, it has returned again and again by popular demand, and now comes back for a fifth engagement.

Having traveled to opera houses across five continents, this remarkable production has been seen live by millions and is widely considered the most-viewed opera production in history. With its dazzling, hand-drawn animation and affectionate homage to the silent film era, it continues to captivate audiences of all ages.

To conclude our anniversary season with a work of such joy and imagination—and with an artist whose contributions have meant so much to this company—is both meaningful and profoundly appropriate. I am especially grateful to our incredibly generous production underwriters who have made this moment possible: GRoW @ Annenberg, Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, and The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks for the additional support provided by Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing, whose generosity makes possible the participation of the young soloists from the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, and by The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation.

Thank you for being part of this unforgettable season, and for sharing in this special moment with us.

With gratitude,

Christopher Koelsch SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

LA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marc Stern* HONORARY CHAIRMAN

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.* CHAIRMAN

Leslie Dorman* CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Carol F. Henry* Linda Pascotto* Andrea Pessino* Robert Ronus* Eugene P. Stein* Régina Weingarten* Marilyn Ziering* VICE CHAIRMEN

Penelope D. Foley* TREASURER

Paul D. Tosetti* SECRETARY

Bernard A. Greenberg VICE CHAIRMAN

FOUNDING

Ahsan Aijaz

Patricia Artigas

James R. Asperger

Haig A. S. Bagerdjian

Cheryl Baptiste

Paul Bloch

Lisa Bratkovich

Iman H. Brivanlou, Ph.D.

Barbara Burtin

Marlene Schall Chávez, Ph.D.

Janet J. Ciriello, Ed.D.

James Conlon†

Robert Cook

Mark H. Dalzell

Alexis Deutsch-Adler

Kathleen Kane Eberhardt*

Chaz Hammel-Smith Ebert

Geoff Emery

Dr. Annette Ermshar

Michael A. Friedman, M.D.

Ambassador Frank E. Baxter‡

Alicia Garcia Clark

Alice Steere Coulombe‡

Shaudi Fulp

Gordon P. Getty**

Diane Gray

Mónica Gutiérrez Roper

Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, M.D.

Nicolas Hamatake

Catherine H. Helm

William Chase

Hodge-Brokenburr

Rian Johnson

Tim C. Johnson*

Janet Jones

Richard Jones

Monique Regine Kagan

Lawrence A. Kern

Gayle Kirschbaum

Christopher Koelsch†*

Thomas F. Kranz

Ali Leemann, Ph.D.

Don Franzen

Alexander Furlotti

Joan Hotchkis‡

Sherry Lansing

Scott R. Lord*

Hon. Nora M. Manella

Claude Mann

Linda May

Jennifer McCormick

Patricia McKenna*

James Mulally

Gregory Nava

Olivia H. Ernst Neece

Leslie A. Pam, Ph.D.

Linda Pierce

Ceil Pulitzer**

Barry A. Sanders*

Lionel M. Sauvage*

Heinrich Schelbert, M.D., Ph.D.

Charlotte Coulombe Schoenmann

R. Carlton Seaver*

Lisa See*

LIFE TRUSTEES

Harold B. Ray

Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders‡

Marvin S. Shapiro

Mrs. Dennis Stanfill

Tina L. Segel

Joan Seidel‡

Linda Shaheen*

Marilyn Shapiro

Susan Shapiro*

Eric L. Small

Dr. Vina Spiehler

Janet Stanford

Dr. Ellen G. Strauss

Mimi Won Techentin

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Brigitta B. Troy

Gillian Wagner

Christopher V. Walker*

Geoffrey P. Wharton

Andrew Xu

Zev Yaroslavsky

Ellen Zetcher

Joakim Zetterberg

Ann Ziff

Richard E. Troop

Alyce Williamson‡

PRESIDENTS / CHAIRMEN OF LA OPERA SINCE ITS INCEPTION

Stephen D. Gavin

John A. McCone

Lawrence Deutsch

Bernard I. Forester

Kyhl Smeby

Edward W. Carter

Thomas Wachtell

Roy L. Ash

Bernard A. Greenberg

Richard Seaver

Leonard I. Green

Marc Stern

* Executive Committee member ** Honorary † Ex Officio ‡ in memoriam

Frank E. Baxter

Carol F. Henry

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.

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ROBERT MILLARD

DEFINING AN ERA

With this production of The Magic Flute , James Conlon wraps up an extraordinary 20-year run as LA Opera’s Richard Seaver Music Director. It’s been a defining chapter for the company—one that has shaped its sound, its ambition, and its identity in lasting ways.

He isn’t going far, though. He’ll continue his relationship with LA Opera as Conductor Laureate, a new lifetime title that means he’ll be back regularly to conduct and remain an active part of the company’s artistic life.

Since joining LA Opera in 2006, he has led more performances than any conductor in the company’s history—522 as of the final performance of Flute covering 70 operas by 32 composers. Along the way, he’s taken on projects both large and adventurous, from the company’s first complete Ring cycle in 2010 to the 2015 “Figaro Trilogy,” which brought together works by Mozart, Rossini, and John Corigliano in a single, imaginative sweep.

One of Conlon’s most meaningful contributions has been his Recovered Voices initiative, which focuses on composers whose work was suppressed by the Nazi regime. This ongoing project has reached far beyond Los Angeles, influencing how opera companies around the world think about rediscovering and programming lost repertoire.

He has also brought attention to works by Black composers whose contributions have too often been overlooked. Presentations of The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Highway 1, USA by William Grant Still introduced many audiences to two important voices in operatic history.

Audiences in Los Angeles have also come to eagerly anticipate his engaging pre-performance talks, where he draws connections between music and history, literature, and culture—offering both longtime opera lovers and newcomers a deeper way into the work onstage. His collaborations across the city, with schools, museums, and other cultural institutions, reflect a broader belief that opera should be part of everyday civic life.

That spirit is perhaps most visible in the annual Community Opera, presented at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Each year, hundreds of community members perform alongside LA Opera professionals in a fully staged production for thousands of audience members—completely free. It’s a powerful example of his long-held view that opera is for everyone.

As he steps into this next chapter, James Conlon leaves behind not just an impressive list of accomplishments, but a company that continues to reflect his curiosity, range, and sense of purpose. He is a cherished and deeply respected presence within the LA Opera family—artists, staff, crew, and audiences alike—and we are profoundly grateful for all he has given over the past two decades. We look forward with great anticipation to welcoming him back next season, when he returns to conduct The Marriage of Figaro in 2027. His influence will continue to resonate in the years ahead, shaping the company for generations to come.

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A MAGICAL STORYBOOK

Barrie Kosky, Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt on flying elephants, the world of silent film and the eternal search for love | Interview by

Ulrich Lenz

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA OF STAGING THE MAGIC FLUTE WITH 1927?

Barrie Kosky (stage director; Intendent of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2012-22): The Magic Flute is the most frequently performed German-language opera, one of the top ten operas in the world. Everyone knows the story; everybody knows the music; everyone knows the characters. On top of that, it is an “ageless” opera, meaning that an eight-year-old can enjoy it as much as an octogenarian can. So you start out with some pressure when you undertake a staging of this opera. I think the challenge is to embrace the heterogeneous nature of this opera. Any attempt to interpret the piece in only one way is bound to fail. You almost have to celebrate the contradictions and inconsistencies of the plot and the characters, as well as the mix of fantasy, surrealism, magic and deeply touching human emotions.

Several years ago, I attended a performance of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, the first show created by the British theater company known as 1927. From the moment the show started, there was this fascinating mix of live performance with animation, creating its own aesthetic world. Within minutes, this strange mixture of silent film and music hall had convinced me that these people had to do The Magic Flute with me in Berlin! It seemed to me quite an advantage that Paul and Suzanne would be venturing into opera for the first time, because they were completely free of any preconceptions about it, unlike me.

The result was a unique Magic Flute. Although Suzanne and Paul were working in Berlin for the first time, they had a natural feel for the city’s artistic ambiance, especially the Berlin of the 1920s, when it

was such an important creative center for painting, cabaret, silent film and animated film. Suzanne, Paul and I share a love for revue, vaudeville, music hall and similar forms of theater, and, of course, for silent film. So our Papageno is suggestive of Buster Keaton, Monostatos is a bit Nosferatu, and Pamina perhaps a bit reminiscent of Louise Brooks. But it’s more than an homage to silent film—there are far too many influences from other areas. But the world of silent film gives us a certain vocabulary that we can then use in any way that we like.

IS YOUR LOVE OF SILENT FILM THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE NAME “1927”?

Suzanne Andrade (stage director/writer/performer; co-creator of 1927): 1927 was the year of the first sound film, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson, an absolute sensation at the time. We work with a mixture of live performance and animation, which makes it a completely new art form in many ways. Many others have

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The Magic Flute is about the search for love, and about the different forms that this search can take.

Pamina faces down Monostatos’s hounds in a striking moment from The Magic Flute, animated by Paul Barritt.

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used film in theater, but 1927 integrates film in a very new way. We don’t do a theater piece with added movies. Nor do we make a movie and then combine it with acting elements. Everything goes hand in hand. Our shows evoke the world of dreams and nightmares, with aesthetics that hearken back to the world of silent film.

Paul Barritt (filmmaker; co-creator of 1927): And yet it would be wrong to see in our work only the influence of the 1920s and silent film. We take our visual inspiration from many eras, from the copper engravings of the 18th century as well as in comics of today. There is no preconceived aesthetic setting in our mind when we work on a show. The important thing is that the image fits. In the libretto, Papageno is served a glass of wine. We let him have a drink, but it isn’t wine. It’s a pink cocktail from a giant cocktail glass, and Suzanne had the idea that he would start to see pink elephants flying around him. Of course, the most famous of all flying elephants was Dumbo—from the 1940s—but the actual year isn’t important as long as everything comes together visually.

Suzanne Andrade: Our Magic Flute is a journey through different worlds of fantasy. But as in all of our shows, there is a connecting style that ensures that the whole thing doesn’t fall apart aesthetically.

Barrie Kosky: This is also helped by 1927’s very special feeling for rhythm. The rhythm of the music and the text has an enormous influence on the animation. As we worked together on The Magic Flute, the timing always came from the music, even—especially—in the dialogues, which we condensed and transformed into silent film intertitles with piano accompaniment. It’s a silent film by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, so to speak!

DOES THE OPERA WORK WITHOUT ITS ORIGINAL SPOKEN DIALOGUE?

Suzanne Andrade: I think that almost any story can be told without words. You can undress a story to the bone, to find out what you really need to convey the plot. We tried to do that in The Magic Flute. You can convey so much of a story through purely visual means. You don’t always need two pages of dialogue to show the relationship between two people. You don’t need a comic dialogue to show that Papageno is a funny character. A clever gimmick can sometimes offer more insight than dialogue.

Paul Barritt: Going back to silent films, for a moment— they weren’t just films without sound, with intertitles in place of the missing voices. Intertitles were actually used very sparingly. The makers of silent films instead told their stories through the visual elements. While

Courage and love are tested in a trial of fire, as Tamino and Pamina move forward together and emerge transformed.

talkies convey the stories primarily through dialogue, silent films told their story through gestures, movements and glances, and so on.

Barrie Kosky: This emphasis on the images makes it possible for every viewer to experience the show in his or her own way: as a magical, living storybook; as a curious, contemporary meditation on silent film as a singing silent film; or as paintings come to life. Basically, we have a hundred stage sets in which things happen that normally aren’t possible onstage: flying elephants, flutes trailing notes, bells as showgirls... We can fly up to the stars and then ride an elevator to hell, all within a few minutes. Although Paul spent hours and hours sitting in front of computer to create it, his animation never loses its deeply human component. You can always see that a human hand has drawn everything.

WHAT IS THE MAGIC FLUTE REALLY ABOUT?

Paul Barritt: It’s a love story, told as a fairy tale.

Suzanne Andrade: The love story between Tamino and Pamina. Throughout the entire piece, the two try to find each other—but everyone else separates them and pulls them away from each other. Only at the very end do they come together.

Barrie Kosky: A strange, fairytale love story, one that has a lot of archetypal and mythological elements, such as the trials they must undergo to gain wisdom. They have to go through fire and water to mature. These are ancient rites of initiation.

Tamino falls in love with a portrait. How many myths and fairy tales include this plot point? And on his way to her, he encounters all sorts of obstacles. And, at the same time, the object of his desire faces her own personal obstacles on her own journey.

You can experience our production as a journey through the dream worlds of Tamino and Pamina. These two dream worlds collide and combine to form one strange dream. The person who combines these dreams and these worlds is Papageno. Interestingly, Papageno is in pursuit of an idealized image too: the perfect fantasy woman at his side, something he craves almost desperately. The Magic Flute is about the search for love, and about the different forms that this search can take.

Finally, it is about the power of music, music that can move mountains and nature. The magic flute isn’t just an instrument, it is the quintessence of music, and music, in this case, is synonymous with love. I think that’s the reason why so many people love this opera so much, because they see, hear and feel that it’s a universal representation of those looking for love, a journey that we all take time and time again.

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When Tamino plays the magic flute, its spirit appears and a wondrous world unfolds around him.

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LA Opera is delighted to thank GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation for their underwriting support of The Magic Flute. A steadfast partner of LA Opera over many years, GRoW @ Annenberg (“GRoW”) has provided foundational support to the company, underwriting numerous productions, championing its education programming, joining the 30th and 40th anniversary Angels initiatives and, most recently, supporting the company’s Wildfire Relief Fund. LA Opera also extends its deep appreciation to board member Régina Weingarten and her husband Gregory Annenberg Weingarten for their personal commitment to cultural philanthropy through support of organizations providing exceptional artistry, cultural enrichment and access to the arts and arts education.

A philanthropic initiative led by Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, chairman and director of the Annenberg Foundation, and his wife, Régina, GRoW @ Annenberg is world-renowned for its extraordinary support of organizations globally that address social and cultural issues and meet urgent community needs.

GRoW’s support of LA Opera has been steadfast since its first significant commitment in 2015. Over the years, GRoW has underwritten nearly 20 productions, dating back to the 2017 production of Salome. These include new productions such as Lucia di Lammermoor (2022), The Marriage of Figaro (2023) and Highway 1, USA (2024). The company was honored to recognize GRoW as its 2022/23 Season Underwriter in gratitude for their underwriting support of four productions in that season alone.

Furthering their commitment to shining a light on under-recognized works, GRoW @ Annenberg provided underwriting support for last season’s presentation of the 1931 Spanish-language film Dracula. Featuring a new LAO-commissioned score by Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla, the presentation brought

Régina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

much-deserved attention to this rarely seen incarnation of the classic film. Additionally, GRoW underwrote last season’s productions of Roméo et Juliette and Ainadamar and this season’s production of well as the company’s presentations—both last season and this season—of the Paris-based ensemble Les Talens Lyriques.

Through the years, GRoW has supported the com pany’s education programming and special funding initiatives as a member of the Angels and the Campaign for LA Opera. Thanks to GRoW’s generosity, LA Opera has been recognized for its artistic excellence and its arts education programming, helping to make Los Angeles one of the world’s premier cultural centers. GRoW has also invited representatives from numerous grantee organizations to attend LA Opera performances, including the 2024 double bill of Highway 1, USA The Dwarf and last season’s Dracula, enabling hundreds of community members to engage in the beauty of opera, many of them for the first time.

Dual citizens of France and the U.S., Gregory and Régina lived in Paris together for more than two decades. For their philanthropic work, each has earned several honors, including France’s Legion d’Honneur, Grand Mécène de la Culture, Grand Donateur de la Culture, and Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et Lettres. In 2015, Gregory and Régina moved their family from Paris to Los Angeles, where they remain engaged in cultural and philanthropic diplomacy across the globe.

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The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas

The Henrys’ dedication to opera in Los Angeles extends to the time before there was a resident company in existence. Carol was a founding member of the Opera League of Los Angeles and helped to found LA Opera in 1986. Since then, she and Warner kept watch over the company through every step of its growth, as members of the Founding, Domingo’s, 20th, 25th, 30th and 40th Anniversary Angels. They both served on the board’s executive committee, on which Carol continues to serve as Vice Chairman.

Through farsighted philanthropy, the Henrys created the Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas—their way of ensuring that Mozart’s works will have an enduring presence on the LA Opera stage. If you’ve attended productions over the past several years, you’ve seen their underwriting support acknowledged for no less than six different Mozart operas—The Marriage of Figaro (2010, 2015, 2023), Don Giovanni (2012, 2023), The Magic Flute (2009, 2013, 2016, 2019), The Abduction from the Seraglio (2017) and The Clemency of Titus (2019) and

Così fan tutte (2025)—as well as The Coronation of Poppea in 2006 and Der Rosenkavalier in 1994.

Warner, who passed away in 2020, often shared the story of when he was asked by the president of Stanford which Mozart opera he would take to a desert island. He responded: “If I were alone, I’d take The Magic Flute. And if I were with my wife Carol, I’d make sure I had The Marriage of Figaro. But if there were another couple with us, it would have to be Così fan tutte.”

It is with this playful and joyous spirit that the company presents The Magic Flute to honor the memory of Warner and his devotion to the music of Mozart—and the remarkable support he and Carol have provided to ensure these masterpieces remain an integral part of LA Opera’s repertoire.

Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Norman and Sadie Lee devoted themselves to classical music in Los Angeles and to LA Opera since the company’s founding in 1986. Following their passings in 2005 and 2009, their legacy of dedication has continued through the Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation, led by their nephew Paul James, building an endowment that is generously supporting this production of The Magic Flute.

Norman and Sadie Lee, both British citizens, lived lives of generous philanthropy and community involvement. Norman was born in 1916 and was an engineer and industrialist in refrigerator manufacturing and property development. Sadie, born in 1911, was a schoolteacher. Both had a love of the arts, including music, dance and theater. Upon their retirements, they became active in the community in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Supporting the newly established LA Opera in 1986, they became subscribers and donors. Mr. Lee became a board member and officer,

serving until the 2001/02 season when he became a Life Trustee.

During that time, the Lees began their commitment to the future of LA Opera by establishing an endowment that they would enhance with annual contributions. The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation has further supported LA Opera since their passing, contributing to their endowment and the company’s annual fund. They have built a legacy that now provides underwriting support for LA Opera’s productions annually, helping the company to continue to bring the beauty of the arts to generations to come.

LA Opera is deeply grateful to the Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation for their generosity and dedication over the years.

Remembering Alyce de Roulet Williamson

This production of The Magic Flute is dedicated to the memory of Alyce de Roulet Williamson, who passed away on March 16, 2026. Alyce was one of the company’s most cherished family members and a beloved cultural and philanthropic icon of Los Angeles. LA Opera is honored to celebrate her remarkable life and the enduring legacy she leaves behind.

Alyce was a true daughter of California, representing four generations of her family’s deep roots in the state. Her legacy is inextricably linked with the very fabric of the Los Angeles arts community. As the niece of Dorothy Chandler, she was present for the creation of The Music Center and remained a dedicated steward of that vision throughout her life.

Alyce’s influence extended far beyond the halls of LA Opera, as she was also a foundational force for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Blue Ribbon, the Hollywood Bowl, the Huntington Library, the Art Center College of Design, and many other organizations fortunate to have her as their champion.

At LA Opera, Alyce was a constant, joyful presence. A subscriber since 1998 and a board member since 2003, Alyce became a Life Trustee in 2022. She attended

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nearly every opening night for more than a quarter of a century, and she was often among the last to leave, sharing her warmth and passion for the work with the artists she so dearly admired.

Her leadership on LA Opera’s Nominating, Special Events, and Board Relations committees helped shape the company and ensure its continued success. Beyond her immense personal generosity, it was her advocacy and her ability to bridge many corners of the Los Angeles cultural landscape that made her an irreplaceable treasure.

Alyce now joins her beloved husband, Warren (“Spud”), who passed away eight years ago. The two shared a storybook marriage of 64 years. Alyce leaves behind her three children—Sandra, Ruth, and Henry— seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Our thoughts are with them all as they navigate a world without their beloved matriarch.

LA Opera is forever grateful for Alyce—a great philanthropist, a dedicated advocate, and a dear friend. She will be deeply missed by everyone in the LA Opera family and by so many throughout Los Angeles.

Where are they now?

Mezzo-soprano Deepa Johnny (young artist: 202224) is currently performing Dejanira in Ercole Amante at the Paris Opera, where she debuted in April as Kasturbai in Satyagraha. This season she also performed Angelina in La Cenerentola at English National Opera and Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Canadian Opera Company.

Catching up with alumni of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program

In March, mezzosoprano Ronnita Miller (young artist: 2008-10) made her Washington National Opera debut as Tituba in The Crucible, and she returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in May in Die Walküre. Last year she created the role of voting rights icon Fanny Lou Hamer in Chandler Carter’s This Little Light of Mine with Kentucky Opera.

Next season, tenor Brenton Ryan (young artist: 201416) debuts with Komische Oper Berlin as Edmund in Aribert Reimann’s Lear and Boston Lyric Opera as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire. He also performs Robert Wilson in Doctor Atomic at the Bavarian State Opera, Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier at the Met, and Loge in Das Rheingold at San Francisco Opera.

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2025/26 SEASON

LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

West Side Story

September 20 – October 12, 2025

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Production made possible by generous support from Terri and Jerry Kohl, Alfred E. Mann Charities and The Blue Ribbon. This production is dedicated to the memory of LA Opera Life Trustee, Ambassador Frank Baxter.

The Phantom of the Opera ROY BUDD

October 30 – 31, 2025, at the United Theater Off Grand productions are supported by a consortium of generous donors to LA Opera’s Contemporary Opera Initiative, chaired by Barry and Nancy Sanders.

Hildegard WORLD PREMIERE SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER

November 5 – 9, 2025, at The Wallis Off Grand productions are supported by a consortium of generous donors to LA Opera’s Contemporary Opera Initiative, chaired by Barry and Nancy Sanders.

La Bohème

November 22 – December 14, 2025

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Production made possible by generous support from Andrea Pessino, Alfred E. Mann Charities, and Jane and Peter Hemmings Production Fund, a gift from the Flora L. Thornton Trust. Special additional support from The Armenian Consortium and Scott Watt Family. Janai Brugger’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund.

Ben Bliss in Recital

December 7, 2025, at The Wallis Presentation made possible by generous support from Mrs. Rita Coveney Pudenz.

Juan Diego Flórez in Recital

February 10, 2026

Recital made possible by generous support from Robert and Ana Cook. Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

Patti LuPone: Matters of the Heart

February 21, 2026

Patti LuPone’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund. Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

Akhnaten

February 28 – March 22, 2026

PHILIP GLASS

Production made possible by generous support from the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund, Margo Leavin, and Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer. Additional support provided by The Akhnaten Consortium, LA Opera’s Contemporary Opera Initiative, chaired by Barry and Nancy Sanders, and the National Endowment for the Arts. John Holiday’s appearance is generously underwritten by a gift from The Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award. Original production made possible by generous support from the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund and Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer.

Nadine Sierra in Recital

March 21, 2026, at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall

April 18 – May 10, 2026

Production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation, Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten; Andrea Pessino; Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn); Barbara Augusta Teichert; and The Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund. With special additional support provided by Laura and Carlton Seaver. Original production made possible by generous support from Leslie and John Dorman.

James Conlon Farewell Concert & Gala

April 24, 2026

James Conlon’s Farewell On-Stage Gala generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl and Eva and Marc Stern.

Noah’s Flood BENJAMIN BRITTEN

May 8 – 9, 2026, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Production made possible by a generous grant from the  Dan Murphy Foundation. Special support also received from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, and Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

Les Talens Lyriques: Handelian Heroes

May 24, 2026, at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall

Performance made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation, Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Additional underwriting support provided by Mr. Robert Finnerty and Mr. Richard Cullen.

The Magic Flute WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

May 30 – June 21, 2026

Production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation, Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Original production and revival made possible by a generous gift from The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas. Additional support for the performers from the Los Angeles Children's Chorus made possible by Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing. With special additional support from The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation. Special additional support for Maestro James Conlon’s conducting provided by Raffaella Belanich.

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40th Anniversary Angels

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We celebrate our 40th Anniversary Angels, who build upon the inspiring legacy of the company’s Founding Angels and the many generous Angels who followed. (See pages P14-P15.) Their extraordinary support has provided essential annual operating resources for world-class opera in Los Angeles.

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Emanuel Treitel Trust

GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation

Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Colburn Foundation

County of Los Angeles

Dunard Fund USA

Gordon Getty

Joan H. Hotchkis Fund, in honor of Joan and John Hotchkis

Terri and Jerry Kohl

Margo Leavin

Nanette and Keith Leonard

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Andrea Pessino

Ronus Foundation

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The Blue Ribbon

Ana and Robert Cook

Penelope Foley

Max H. Gluck Foundation

The Green Foundation

The Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund

Carol and Warner Henry

Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate

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Dan Murphy Foundation

Chris and Dick Newman

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The Seaver Family

Richard Shank Trust

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Ann Ziff

PROGRAM

CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH , SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

JAMES CONLON , RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

The Magic Flute

CREATIVE TEAM PRODUCTION NOTES CAST

CONDUCTOR

James Conlon

PRODUCTION

Suzanne Andrade

Barrie Kosky

ANIMATION DESIGNER

Paul Barritt

CONCEPT

1927 (Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky

SET AND COSTUME

DESIGNER

Esther Bialas

CHORUS DIRECTOR

Jeremy Frank

REVIVAL DIRECTOR

Erik Friedman

ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

Andreas Heinzmann

PROMPTER

Tamar Sanikidze

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Frances Rabalais

STAGE MANAGER

Lisa Kable-Blanchard

Samantha Greene (JUNE 14)

MUSICAL PREPARATION

Sujin Choi †

Peter Walsh ‡

* LA Opera debut

† Member of the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program

‡ Alumnus of the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program

ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

PAMINA Sydney Mancasola TAMINO

Miles Mykkanen * THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT Aigul Khismatullina * SARASTRO

Kwangchul Youn * PAPAGENO

Kyle Miller * PAPAGENA

MONOSTATOS

FIRST LADY

SECOND LADY

THIRD LADY

THE SPEAKER

FIRST SPIRIT

Emily Damasco †

Zhengyi Bai *

Diana Newman *

Katie Trigg †

Meridian Prall *

Hyungjin Son †

Elle Thorman * SECOND SPIRIT

THIRD SPIRIT

FIRST ARMORED MAN

SECOND ARMORED MAN

Clark Chua *

Alexa Ho *

Nathan Bowles †

Hyungjin Son † SUPPORT

Production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation

Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

Original production and revival made possible by a generous gift from The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas

Additional support for the performers from the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus made possible by Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing

With special additional support from The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Special additional support for Maestro James Conlon’s conducting provided by Raffaella Belanich

LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

This production is dedicated to the memory of Alyce Williamson.

The running time is approximately two hours and 40 minutes, including one intermission.

This production features smoke effects and strobe lights.

Projected English titles courtesy of Komische Oper Berlin.

Edited for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe by Gernot Gruber and Alfred Orel. Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Bärenreiter Verlag.

Pre-performance talks by James Conlon are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.

A production of the Komische Oper Berlin.

Scenery constructed by Minnesota Opera Scenic Studios. Costumes constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Costume Shop.

Additional costumes by Top Hat Imagewear. Additional millinery by Hatcrafters, Inc. Safety harnesses designed by HRS Entertainment, Inc. Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Wig Department.

The children soloists are members of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Artistic Director).

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Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

ACT ONE

In a dark forest, far away…

As he flees from a monstrous serpent, Tamino is rescued at the last second by three ladies who serve the Queen of the Night. When he regains consciousness, the first person Tamino sees is Papageno, so Tamino believes him to be his rescuer.

Papageno, a bird catcher in search of love, does nothing to dispel the misunderstanding. The three ladies punish Papageno for this lie by rendering him mute. They show Tamino a picture of Pamina, the Queen’s daughter. Tamino instantly falls in love with Pamina.

The Queen of the Night now appears. She tells Tamino about her daughter’s kidnapping at the hands of the evil sorcerer Sarastro. Tamino eagerly agrees to her command that he rescue Pamina. The three ladies give Papageno back his voice and instruct him to accompany Tamino. As a protection against danger, they give Tamino a magic flute, while Papageno receives magic bells, and three spirits will show Tamino and Papageno the way to Sarastro.

Pamina is tormented by Sarastro’s slave Monostatos, but she is saved when Papageno wanders in, having become separated from Tamino. Both Papageno and Monostatos are frightened by the other’s strange appearance. Left alone with Pamina, Papageno announces that her rescuer Tamino will soon arrive. Papageno admits that his own search for love has sadly proved fruitless so far, and Pamina comforts him.

The three spirits lead Tamino to the gates of Sarastro’s domain. He learns that the Queen is really the evil one, and the good Sarastro was merely trying to get Pamina away from her mother’s dark influence. Overjoyed to learn that Pamina is still alive, Tamino plays on his magic flute, enchanting nature with his music.

Papageno and Pamina try to flee, but they are caught by Monostatos and his helpers. Papageno’s magic bells soon put their pursuers out of action. Sarastro and his retinue then enter upon the scene. Monostatos leads in Tamino; Sarastro punishes Monostatos for tormenting Pamina. The long-awaited encounter between Tamino and Pamina is all too brief; Sarastro orders that they must now face a series of trials.

ACT TWO

The trial of silence

Tamino and Papageno must practice being silent. When the three ladies appear and attempt to persuade them

to abandon their quest, the trial becomes truly difficult. Tamino remains silent and resolute, while Papageno immediately begins to chatter.

Meanwhile, Monostatos again tries to get close to the sleeping Pamina. The Queen of the Night appears and orders her daughter to kill Sarastro. Pamina remains behind, despairing. Sarastro seeks to console Pamina by forswearing any thoughts of revenge.

The trial of temptation

Tamino and Papageno must resist any temptation: no conversation, no women, no food!

As well as the magic flute and magic bells, the three spirits also bring Tamino and Papageno food, which Tamino once again steadfastly resists. Even the arrival of Pamina fails to draw a single word from Tamino’s lips, which she interprets as a rejection. She laments the cooling of Tamino’s love for her.

Before the last trial, Pamina and Tamino are brought together one last time to say farewell to one another. Papageno is not permitted to take part in any further trials. He now wishes only for a glass of wine—and he dreams of his great love.

For her part, Pamina believes that she has lost Tamino forever. In her despair, she seeks to end her own life but is prevented from doing so by the three spirits, who assure her that Tamino still loves her. Gladdened and relieved, Pamina accepts their invitation to see Tamino again.

Reunited at last, Tamino and Pamina undergo the final trial together.

The trial of fire and water

The music of the magic flute and their love for one another allow Tamino and Pamina to conquer their own fear and overcome the dangers of fire and water.

Papageno is still unsuccessful in his search for the perfect mate. Despairing, he now also seeks to end his life, but is prevented from doing so by the three spirits. Papageno’s dream finally comes true: together with the beautiful Papagena, he dreams of being blessed with many children.

Meanwhile…

…the Queen of the Night, the three ladies and the turncoat Monostatos arm themselves for an attack against Sarastro and his retinue. However, their attack is repelled. Tamino and Pamina have reached the end of their trials and can finally be together.

In fond memory of Tara Colburn, supertitles are underwritten by Dunard Fund USA

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe… the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.”—Immanuel Kant

Mozart’s The Magic Flute is amongst the world’s most popular and beloved operas, written by one of its most beloved composers. A pseudo fairy tale, its invented mythology appeals to children and adults, philosophers and writers, casual opera goers and die-hard fans. It is immediately accessible to those hearing it for the first time, yet sufficiently profound and sophisticated to command the continued attention of great thinkers and musicians.

Though he composed another major opera (La Clemenza di Tito) as well as a Requiem (incomplete) in the few months that remained in his life, the notion that he was consciously leaving posterity a work that constituted a final moral statement arose shortly after his death. The passage of time has further cemented this perception. But has this view been reverse-engineered? Was a life-affirming Enlightenment message in The Magic Flute meant to complement the alternative Roman Catholic view of death, with both its solace and terror, in the Requiem? Was it simply another commission that he fulfilled with customary genius? Was his purpose simply to create a musical-theatrical work that stood halfway between the popular and the erudite?

Having consigned Don Giovanni to his infernal retribution, was he now suggesting that mankind no longer needed the fear of punishment to behave virtuously? Having measured the breadth of the battle of the sexes in The Marriage of Figaro, was he ready to call it a stalemate and propose a higher level of peaceful and productive coexistence? Was it time for Don Alfonso’s lesson to the four lovers in Così fan tutte to be superseded by Sarastro’s trials through which Pamina and Tamino lead each other to enlightened wisdom?

It is impossible to propose an answer. It is all of these things and more. The universality of this work will be found and appreciated by considering each of these questions as aspects of a work in which the musical, spiritual, and philosophic substance is greater than the sum of all its parts.

The musical innovations are countless and to cite them all is beyond the scope of this essay. But amongst the leading ones would be the forward-looking freedom of form that foreshadows the music of the 19th century and beyond. Another example is the extraordinary creation of Papageno, whose simple strophic songs (written to accommodate theater director Emanuel Schickaneder’s limited vocal range) are juxtaposed with the audacious use of the Italian style exemplified by the

Queen of the Night’s coloratura arias. One can perceive the emergence of the latter half of the 19th century in the famous scene between Tamino and the Speaker. The entire six-minute scene is an open-ended creative discussion, technically a recitative with orchestral accompaniment. There is nothing new about that. But it opens the way for the continuous uninterrupted flow of text that will be the eventual goal of both Wagner and Verdi. Finally, we perceive another giant step in the emancipation and sophistication of the orchestra’s role in shaping and reflecting the dramatic arc.

Philosophically, The Magic Flute stands firmly in the Enlightenment, and its humanist concepts. Reason, Virtue, Sympathy and Clarity are the cornerstones of a better life. Humankind can embrace peaceful coexistence, foster equality for all and strive for harmony and benevolence through intelligence, work and art.

Mozart shows us what we could become. Through adoption of the tenets of the realm of Sarastro’s Temple, we can become our most evolved self. The composer proposes that this is best done when we do so as a couple, in a blending of perfect love. Pamina and Tamino will rule as equals in a new enlightened age. Their union is a model for the part of us that strives. Papageno is the example for the part of us that doesn’t strive, the part that just is. He is himself, wants to be nothing else, and is fundamentally unchanged from beginning to end. But he too will become his fullest self in union with Papagena. Mozart, in his seemingly infinite generosity and humanity, understands, loves and celebrates both couples as if he were celebrating two contradictory aspects of all humanity.

The ultimate personal evolution is to be found in the loving, enlightened couple, which will serve as a paradigm for society as a whole. “Mann und Weib, und Weib und Mann, reichen an die Gottheit an,” Pamina and Papageno tell us. “Man and Woman, Woman and Man”—note their equality—“approach divinity.” Mozart seems to speak uncharacteristically in the first person to us through his characters.

Kant observed that “The highest moral good cannot be achieved merely by the exertions of the single individual towards his own moral perfection but requires a union of such individuals into a whole towards the same goal.”

In The Magic Flute, Sarastro’s Zoroastrian sun and stars provide for Kant’s “heavens above,” the initiates within his temple represent the “union of individuals” and Mozart himself offers us “the moral law within.”

James Conlon CONDUCTOR

From: New York City, New York.

LA Opera: He has been Richard Seaver Music Director since 2006, conducting 70 different operas and over 500 performances. After this season, he will become Conductor Laureate, returning in 2027 for The Marriage of Figaro.

About: He has led virtually every major North American and European orchestra and over 270 performances at the Metropolitan Opera. He has been Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of the RAI in Torino (2016-20), Music Director of the Ravinia Festival (2005-15), Principal Conductor of the Paris National Opera (1995-2004), General Music Director of the City of Cologne (1989-2002), Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (1983-91) and Music Director of the Cincinnati May Festival (1979-2016), where is now Music Director Laureate. He has won three Grammy Awards and was awarded France’s Légion d’Honneur. (JamesConlon.com)

Suzanne Andrade DIRECTOR

From: London, England. LA Opera: The Magic Flute (2013, debut; 2016, 2019).

About: She is the co-founder and co-artistic director, with Paul Barritt, of the theater company 1927, specializing in synchronizing live performances with animation to create magical theater. The company has toured extensively across six continents. For 1927, she wrote and directed the multi-award-winning shows Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, Golem, Roots and Please Right Back, as well as the audio series Decameron Nights. Her credits in opera also include directing and designing a double bill of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka for Komische Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Earlier this year, 1927 created animations for performances of Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall. (19-27.co.uk)

Barrie Kosky DIRECTOR

From: Melbourne, Australia.

LA Opera: The Magic Flute (2013, debut; 2016, 2019); Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard’s Castle (2014); La Bohème (2019).

About: From 2012-22 he was Intendant of the Komische Oper Berlin where his eclectic and radical programming garnered many international awards and public recognition. His production of The Magic Flute has been seen in over 45 cities by nearly a million people worldwide. Major productions elsewhere include those for the Bayreuth Festival (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Vienna State Opera (Mozart / Da Ponte cycle), Salzburg Festival (Orphée aux Enfers and Kat’a Kabanovna), numerous operas for Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and productions for the Paris Opera, Opera Zürich, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Festival d’ Aix en Provence and Dutch National Opera. He is currently directing a new production of the Ring cycle for London’s Royal Opera House, which will conclude next year with Götterdämmerung.

Paul Barritt

ANIMATION DESIGN

From: Wrexham, Wales. LA Opera: The Magic Flute (2013, debut; 2016, 2019).

About: Paul Barritt is the co-founder and co-artistic director (with Suzanne Andrade) of the theater company 1927, for which he has co-created, animated and designed Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, Golem, Roots, Please Right Back, and Turangalîla. His operatic debut was The Magic Flute for the Komische Oper Berlin, which he co-conceived and animated and which has been seen worldwide. He co-created and animated Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges for the Komische Oper and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Outside of 1927, he collaborated with Musik Fabrik Köln on an animated new music concert, Krazy Kat Projekt, and his short film White Morning played in major film festivals worldwide. In 2016, he was featured in The Stage 100 list of the most influential people in UK theater. (PaulBarritt.com)

PHOTO BY JAN WINDSZUS

PHOTO BY BONNIE PERKINSON

Esther Bialas

SCENERY AND COSTUME DESIGNER

From: Hamburg, Germany.

LA Opera: The Magic Flute (2013, debut; 2016, 2019)

About: Her work this year and next year includes costume designs for On the Town at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Zar und Zimmermann at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Parsifal for London’s Royal Opera House, Leonore at Theater an der Wien, Hello, Dolly! at the Vienna Volksoper, and the world premiere of Gordon Kampe’s Störtebeker at the Hamburg State Opera. Notable productions include King Lear, Richard III and Elfriede Jelinek’s The Light Box at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus D’haus; The Tales of Hoffmann for the Royal Danish Opera; La Cenerentola for Opéra National de Lyon; Schiller’s The Robbers at the Salzburg Festival, Strauss’s The Silent Woman for Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and West Side Story and The Magic Flute for Komische Oper Berlin (the latter seen worldwide). Additional credits include Così fan tutte and Nixon in China at Staatsoper Hannover. (EstherBialas.de)

Jeremy Frank

CHORUS DIRECTOR

From: Glendive, Montana.

LA Opera: He became Chorus Director in 2022, after working on over 75 productions as associate chorus director and/or assistant conductor. He is a coach for the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program.

About: He has collaborated with major opera houses throughout the United States and has prepared operas and vocal chamber music at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, working with Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Phillipe Jordan, Grant Gershon, Barbara Hannigan and Pablo Heras-Casado. A pianist and vocal coach, he is an adjunct lecturer in vocal arts and opera at the University of Southern California. As a pianist, he has partnered with Sondra Radvanovsky, Eric Owens, Brandon Jovanovich, J’nai Bridges, Dolora Zajick, Kate Lindsey and Susan Graham. He has helped prepare the Ring cycle for Seattle Opera and has been a guest faculty member for young artist programs at Utah Opera and Seattle Opera. (JeremyMFrank.com)

Erik Friedman REVIVAL DIRECTOR

From: Oswego, Illinois.

LA Opera: assistant director for 24 productions over the past 12 seasons, including The Ghosts of Versailles (2015), La Clemenza di Tito (2019), Roberto Devereux (2020), and Tosca (2024).

About: He has staged the Suzanne Andrade / Barrie Kosky production of The Magic Flute for multiple companies including Seattle Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the Israeli Opera. He has also worked with Lyric Opera of Chicago as a member of the directing staff and an instructor with Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center Young Artist Program. He has also taught for the Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Program. Since making his directing debut with The Seafarer at the Phoenix Theatre in 2009, he has directed projects for Boston Lyric Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Central City Opera, among others. He has also worked with companies including Steppenwolf Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Sydney Mancasola

PAMINA SOPRANO

From: Redding, California.

LA Opera: Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande (2023, debut); online recital (2020). Upcoming: Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro (2027). About: Earlier this season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Lisa in La Sonnambula and debuted with Atlanta Opera as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. For three seasons, she was an ensemble member at Oper Frankfurt, where her roles included Susanna, Pamina, and Gilda in Rigoletto. Notable appearances include her house and role debut as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Paris Opera, her Met debut as Pamina, and her debut as Bess in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia and Edinburgh International Festival. Her many Komische Oper Berlin roles include Pamina, the Tales of Hoffmann heroines, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, the title role of Semele, and Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld. (SydneyMancasolaSoprano.com)

Kyle Miller

PAPAGENO

B ARITONE

From: San Francisco, California. LA Opera: debut.

About: Highlights of his 2025/26 season have included the title role of Don Giovanni at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Pilot in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince at Dallas Opera. He will return to the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the 2026/27 season. In the fall, he will debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Royal Swedish Opera, then reprise that role in a new production at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he will also appear as Chou En-Lai in Nixon in China, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Luzifer in Rued Langgaard’s Antikrist before returning to the Komische Oper Berlin as Anthony in Sweeney Todd. Recent appearances include his 2024 Metropolitan Opera debut as Sensor in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, a role he premiered at Washington National Opera in 2023, and Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. (KyleMillerBaritone.com)

Miles Mykkanen

TAMINO TENOR

From: Bessemer, Michigan.

LA Opera: debut.

About: He began the season as Sam Clay in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera, returning later as the Groom in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. He also debuted as Leukippos in Strauss’s Daphne at Seattle Opera. Concert engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cleveland Orchestra, Messiah with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, and Carmina Burana with the Maastricht Festival in the Netherlands. After a national win of the Met’s Laffont Competition in 2019, he began appearing on major stages including the Bavarian State Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Additional appearances include Falstaff (Staatsoper Hamburg), Candide (Lausanne, Ravinia, Tanglewood), Silent Night (Minnesota Opera) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Philadelphia). (MilesMykkanen.com)

Aigul Khismatullina

QUEEN OF THE NIGHT

SOPRANO

From: Saint Petersburg, Russia. LA Opera: debut.

About: This season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera as the Queen of the Night, performed Leïla in The Pearl Fishers and Gilda in Rigoletto with Palm Beach Opera, and appeared at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor, and Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann. Future seasons include debuts with Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera and the Beijing Music Festival. Recent appearances include her Dutch National Opera debut as Gilda, both Gilda and Lucia at Deutsche Oper Berlin, the title role in Lakmé with the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and debuts at the Bavarian State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, and Opera Hong Kong as the Queen of the Night. Her many Mariinsky roles include Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, and the title roles in The Snow Maiden and The Nightingale.

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Kwangchul Youn

SARASTRO B ASS

From: Chung Ju, South Korea.

LA Opera: debut.

About: Regarded as one of the leading basses worldwide, he has appeared this season as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the San Francisco Opera, as King Heinrich in Lohengrin at the Baden-Baden Festival, and as Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra at the Vienna State Opera. He has performed at all of the major international opera houses, including those in Vienna, Berlin, London, Milan. New York, and Paris, as well as at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals. From 1993 to 2004, he was an ensemble member of the Berlin State Opera, where he was awarded the title of Kammersänger in 2018. Recent appearances include Fasolt in Das Rheingold (Paris); Fafner and Hunding in the Ring cycle (Vienna); Gurnemanz in Parsifal (Hamburg, Paris, Vienna); King Heinrich in Lohengrin (Vienna); Comte des Grieux in Manon (Metropolitan Opera); Ramfis in Aida (Barcelona); and Daland in The Flying Dutchman and Landgraf Hermann in Tannhäuser (Hamburg).

Zhengyi Bai

MONOSTATOS

TENOR

From: Linyi, Shandong, China. LA Opera: mainstage debut after performing the lead role of Fong See in On Gold Mountain (2022).

About: His appearances this season have included Monostatos with the Metropolitan Opera and Opera San Antonio; the Fourth Jew in Salome with Lyric Opera of Chicago; and the Madwoman in Curlew River with Opéra National de Nancy-Lorraine and Opéra de Rennes. Recent appearances include Prince Nilsky in Prokofiev’s The Gambler with the Salzburg Festival, Monostatos with San Francisco Opera, Prince Charmant in Cendrillon with Opera Orlando, Colin in The Anonymous Lover with Boston Lyric Opera, Pang in Turandot with Lyric Opera of Kansas City; and Goro in Madama Butterfly with Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera and Kentucky Opera. His appearances with San Francisco Opera also include the Hunchbacked Brother in Die Frau ohne Schatten, the First Prisoner in Fidelio, the Dancing Master/Lamplighter in Manon Lescaut and Le Remendado in Carmen. (BaiZhengyi.com)

Diana Newman

FIRST LADY SOPRANO

From: Malibu, California. LA Opera: debut. About: This season's highlights include Frasquita in Carmen and The Water in The Little Prince with Dallas Opera. Recent appearances include Papagena in The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan Opera, Despina in Così fan tutte with Dallas Opera, Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia, the First Lady with Atlanta Opera, Woglinde in Götterdämmerung with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony, and Woglinde in Das Rheingold with Dallas Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. She was a soloist in A Century of Film Music with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Katie Trigg

SECOND LADY MEZZO -SOPRANO

From: Ngāhinapōuri, New Zealand. LA Opera: Maketaten in Akhnaten (2026, debut). Upcoming: Mercédès in Carmen (2026) and Baroness / Vandedendur in Candide (2026) She joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program this season. About: In July, she will perform Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the Auckland Philharmonia, where she previously performed Flora in La Traviata. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, with roles including Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. She was a 2023 Studio Artist with Wolf Trap Opera. Concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem for the Auckland Choral and C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat for the Bach Musica NZ in Auckland.

Meridian Prall

THIRD LADY MEZZO -SOPRANO

From: Edwardsburg, Michigan. LA Opera: debut. Upcoming: Fenena in Nabucco (2027). About: A 2024 grand finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, she recently debuted with the Dallas Opera as Sister Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites and with the San Diego Symphony for a staged production of L’enfant et les sortilèges, and she appeared with Boston Baroque in Ferrandini’s Il Pianto di Maria. This summer, she will return to the Santa Fe Opera as Eduige in Rodelinda and Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin. Recent appearances include Cornelia in Giulio Cesare with Hudson Hall and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito with Washington Concert Opera.

Emily Damasco

PAPAGENA SOPRANO

From: Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. LA Opera: Bekhetaten in Akhnaten (2026, debut). She joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program this season. About: She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, with roles including the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. She performed with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra as Fiordiligi in the Act One finale of Così fan tutte and the Marschallin in the final trio from Der Rosenkavalier. She won Opera Grand Rapids’ 2023 Vanderlaan Prize Collegiate Vocal Competition and was a 2025 finalist in the George and Nora London Foundation Vocal Competition.

Nathan Bowles

FIRST ARMORED MAN TENOR

From: Minot, North Dakota. LA Opera: Benvolio in Roméo et Juliette (2024, debut); roles include Bullfighter in Ainadamar (2025); Borsa in Rigoletto (2025); Dr. Caius in Falstaff (2026). Upcoming: Ismaele in Nabucco (2027). He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program in 2024. About: Future plans include debuts with the Metropolitan Opera as the First Armored Man, Lyric Opera of Chicago as Elder Hayes in Susanna, and the Taiwan Philharmonic as Siegmund in Die Walküre A 2024 national finalist in the Met’s Laffont Competition, he has performed Canio in Pagliacci with Pacific Opera Project and Don José in The Tragedy of Carmen with Tulsa Opera. (NathanBowlesTenor.com)

Hyungjin Son

SPEAKER / SECOND ARMORED MAN

B ARITONE

From: Seoul, South Korea. LA Opera: Yamadori in Madama Butterfly (2024, debut); Gregorio in Roméo et Juliette (2024); Teacher in Ainadamar (2025); Marullo in Rigoletto (2025); Horemhab in Akhnaten (2026); Conlon Farewell Concert (2026); Noah in Noah’s Flood (2026). He joined the DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program last season. About: Last year, he made his Pittsburgh Opera debut as the Bonze in Madama Butterfly. He has performed the title role of Don Giovanni with the Merola Opera Program and, as a studio artist at Aspen Music Festival, covered Ford in Falstaff and Don Giovanni. He was a 2023 national grand finalist of the Met’s Laffont Competition.

Elle Thorman

FIRST SPIRIT

From: La Cañada Flintridge, California. LA Opera: debut. About: Making her LA Opera debut in this production, Elle is a Concert Choir chorister with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus. She also sings with her school choir at La Cañada High School, where she is a seventh grader. Her previous stage credits include starring roles as the Blue Fairy in her school’s production of My Son Pinocchio, Maria in The Sound of Music, the title character in Matilda, and Rafiki in The Lion King with La Cañada Junior Theater. Outside of theater and choir, she is a dedicated student of the guitar.

Clark Chua

SECOND SPIRIT

From: Arcadia, California. LA Opera: debut. About: Clark Chua is a sixthgrade student at Holy Angels Catholic School in Arcadia and has been a member of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since 2023. Earlier this year, he performed with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He also participated in a paid special choral project led by the acclaimed composer Christopher Young. He is delighted to make his LA Opera debut as part of the trio in The Magic Flute. Outside of music, he enjoys traveling and playing baseball.

Alexa Ho

THIRD SPIRIT

From: Altadena, California. LA Opera: solo debut; Los Angeles Children’s Chorus for La Bohème (2025). About: A seventh grader at St. Philip the Apostle School in Pasadena, Alexa has performed lead roles in Matilda and Annie as well as a featured role in Les Misérables In addition to her vocal and theatrical work, Alexa is a champion synchronized skater with the Pasadena Rose City Crystals, an active junior triathlete, and a national Academic Decathlon champion.

LA OPERA CHORUS

SOPRANO

Christina Borgioli*

Alannah Garnier

Stephanie Jones

Elizabeth Lee

Janet Todd

Chloé Vaught

Sunjoo Yeo*

ALTO

Elizabeth Anderson

Natalie Beck***

Sara Campbell*

Veronica Christenson**

Adriana Manfredi

Bonnie Snell Schindler

Melissa Treinkman

TENOR

Daniel Coy Babcock

James Callon

Omar Crook*

Charles Lane**

JJ Lopez

Francis Lucaric**

Sal Malaki***

Solomon Reynolds

Todd Strange*

Daniel Suk

BASS

Mark Beasom***

Abdiel González*

Jared Jones

Mark Kelley**

David Kress**

Connor Licharz

Gabriel Manro*

Steve Pence*

James Martin Schaefer*

David Williams

* Has appeared in 50 or more productions

** Has appeared in 100 or more productions

*** Has appeared in 150 or more productions

SUPERNUMERARIES

Noelle Bruno

Max Mineer

Josh Olkowski

LA OPERA ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLIN

Alyssa Park

STUART CANIN CONCERTMASTER

Armen Anassian

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Lisa Sutton

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Cheryl Norman-Brick

Olivia Tsui

Katie Sloan

Heather Powell

Radu Pieptea

Adam Millstein

Erica UzCa

SECOND VIOLIN

Ana Landauer

PRINCIPAL

Grace Oh

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Florence Titmus

Leslie Katz

Michele Kikuchi

Cynthia Moussas

Loránd Lokuszta

Haesol Lee

VIOLA

Erik Rynearson

PRINCIPAL

Evan Antes

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Karie Prescott

Shawn Mann

Peng Jing

Kate Vincent

CELLO

John Walz

PRINCIPAL

Michael Kaufman

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Dane Little

Helen Altenbach

Nadine Hall

BASS

Nathan Farrington

PRINCIPAL

Frances Liu Wu

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Zach Hislop

FLUTE

Heather Clark

PRINCIPAL

Angela Wiegand

generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

OBOE

Leslie Reed PRINCIPAL

Jennifer Cullinan

CLARINET

Stuart Clark PRINCIPAL

Donald Foster

BASSOON

William May PRINCIPAL

William Wood

HORN

Steven Becknell PRINCIPAL

Jenny Kim ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

TRUMPET

Ryan Darke

PRINCIPAL

David Washburn

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

TROMBONE

William Booth

PRINCIPAL

Alvin Veeh Terry Cravens

KEYBOARDS

Sujin Choi PRINCIPAL

TIMPANI

Gregory Goodall PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION

Theresa Dimond PRINCIPAL

Melisandra Dunker MUSIC LIBRARIAN

Brady Steel ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Stuart Canin Concertmaster Chair made possible by a deeply appreciated gift from Dunard Fund USA

PRODUCTION STAFF

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

Azra King-Abadi

SUPERTITLE PREPARATION / CUER

Linda Zoolalian

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS

Danielle Brewbaker

Holden Fox

Johanna Romo

SWING STAGE MANAGER

Samantha Greene

STUDIO TEACHER

Marie Wilson-Rogers

COSTUME SHOP

Lindsey Ellison

Aries Limon

Robbie Monsod

JoEllen Skinner

CUTTER/DRAPERS

Clara Weidman

ASSISTANT CUTTER/DRAPER

Alexandra Babec

Adle Smithson

Haley Williams FIRST HANDS

Stephanie Castro

Alex de la Huerta

Morgan Gannes

Melissa Meza

Blanca Miranda

Carmen Muñoz

Johanne Piantieri

Olivia Schlueter-Corey

Anna Wong SEAMSTERS

Wing Cheung MASTER TAILOR

Kelvin Small, Jr. TAILOR

Tessa Barlotta

Dahlia Gonzalez

Nicholas Uccan CRAFTSPERSONS

Emily Frank

Miranda Orellana

PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS

Rhiannon Smith

SENIOR COSTUME ASSISTANT

Emma Van Horn

COSTUME ASSISTANT

Jacqueline Colindres Paz

Gwyneva Rosales

Alexis Sarabia

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

WARDROBE

Lee Smilek HEAD OF WARDROBE

Mary Basile

Charlyn Trenier

WARDROBE ASSISTANTS

Samantha Corn

Charlie Fleiss

Shelley Graves-Jimenez

Mary Lehman

Glen Moore

Tyrell Pickett

SEASONAL DRESSERS

WIGS AND MAKE-UP

Maggie Clark INTERIM WIGMASTER

Kelso Millett

INTERIM ASSOCIATE WIGMASTER

Brandi Strona DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR & CREW FOREMAN

Nicole Rodrigues

SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTIST

Nathalie Eidt SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTIST

Ursula Hawks

Karina Moreno

Angela Santori WIG & MAKE-UP ARTISTS

Darlene Sixtos LEAD STYLIST

STAGE CREW

Scott Papez OPERA HEAD CARPENTER

Robert Colby Klein OPERA HEAD ELECTRICIAN

David Salas OPERA ASSISTANT CARPENTER

Alerton Perez OPERA ASSISTANT ELECTRICIAN

Scott Shepherd OPERA HEAD OF PROPERTIES

Heather Orozco OPERA HEAD AUDIO

Kelly Richard Travis OPERA HEAD VIDEO

Brad Cobb OPERA AUDIO ENGINEER

DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION HOUSE STAFF

Timothy L. Conroy HOUSE HEAD CARPENTER

Ryan Lebetsamer HOUSE HEAD ELECTRICIAN

Scott Shepherd INTERIM HOUSE HEAD OF PROPERTIES

Heather Orozco HOUSE HEAD AUDIO

Robert Devis HOUSE MANAGER

Demetra Willis HEAD USHER

Carolyn Van Brunt VICE PRESIDENT OF GUEST SERVICES

VARI-LITE AUTOMATED LIGHTING PROVIDED BY Vari-Lite Inc.

THE DOMINGO-COLBURN- STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program supports the future of opera by discovering and developing the talents of highly gifted young artists to become the stars of tomorrow. Since the company’s inception, LA Opera has been committed to nurturing a resident ensemble of young singers who would benefit from long-term professional development. The Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program, which builds on the success of the company’s earlier, highly respected Resident Artist Program, has the goal of developing the talents of exceptionally gifted young artists to become performers of potentially international stature, whose first loyalty would be to LA Opera.

The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program is generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation and Eugene and Marilyn Stein. Additional generous underwriting support is provided by Terri and Jerry Kohl Barbara Augusta Teichert and The Rafael and Luisa De Marchena-Huyke Foundation Special support for young artist stipends is graciously provided by The Lenore and Richard Wayne Young Artist Fellowship. Additional support provided by The Jules Brenner Trust and the Young Artist Circle The program was created with funding from the Flora L. Thornton Foundation

The USC Voice Center is the official vocal healthcare provider for LA Opera and the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program.

2025/26 PARTICIPANTS

Nathan Bowles TENOR

Sujin Choi PIANIST/COACH

Vinícius Costa BASS

Emily Damasco SOPRANO

Julian Garvue PIANIST/COACH

Yuntong Han TENOR

Hyungjin Son BARITONE

Katie Trigg MEZZO-SOPRANO

Gabrielle Turgeon SOPRANO

Gabrielė Žemaitytė PIANIST/COACH

Special thanks to the staff of the Music Center. Principal Singers, Narrators, Performers who have speaking parts, Stage Directors, Associate and Assistant Directors, Stage Managers, Assistant Stage Managers, Choreographers, Assistant Choreographers, Principal Dancers, Corps Dancers, and Chorus Singers appear under terms of an agreement between Los Angeles Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AFL-CIO), the national guild of classical singers, dancers and production staff. Orchestra musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 47. The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC,: Stage Crew, Local 33; Treasurers and Ticket Sellers, Local 857; Wardrobe Crew and Costume Crew, Local 768 ; Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists, Local 706. Interns in the Technical Department are students at California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California). All editorial materials copyright Los Angeles Opera, 2025. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Los Angeles Opera.

Christopher Koelsch

SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

James Conlon

RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR

John P. Nuckols

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF STRATEGIC OFFICER

Diane Rhodes Bergman, APR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Jill Boyd

VICE PRESIDENT, LABOR RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Rupert Hemmings

VICE PRESIDENT, ARTISTIC PLANNING

Andréa Fuentes, Ed.D. VICE PRESIDENT, CONNECTS

Kathleen Ruiz

VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Domingo Hindoyan MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE

Lina González-Granados RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

Jeremy Frank CHORUS DIRECTOR

Renée Fleming

ADVISOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS

Susan Graham ARTISTIC ADVISOR, YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Paul Hopper SENIOR DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC PLANNING

ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION

Nicki Harper DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Whitney McAnally PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Blair Salter HEAD COACH, YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Maya Ordóñez MANAGER, ARTISTIC PROGRAMS AND REHEARSAL

Scarleth Arias ARTISTIC OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

BOX OFFICE

Shane K. Morton

BOX OFFICE TREASURER

Shawnet Sweets

Brenda Roman

FIRST ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Joseph Howells

Andy Phu

Joseph Selway

Andrew Tomasulo

Susan Wong

SECOND ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Kiana Culpepper

Lizania Mancia

THIRD ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Steven Phu

Steven Tran

Robert Morrison

Gaspar Vargas Guendulain TICKET SELLERS

CONNECTS

Adam LeBow DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING

Natalie Ramirez DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Jake Ryan Lindsey

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

Tate Shoebridge

PROGRAM MANAGER

Julia Santha

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Kirsten Anderson

COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

Bene’t Benton

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE

Gina Young OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

Eli Villanueva RESIDENT STAGE DIRECTOR

COSTUMES

Jeannique Prospere COSTUME DIRECTOR

Andrealisse Lopez FINANCE AND OPERATIONS MANAGER

Brittani Seach

PRODUCTION, STOCK & RENTAL SUPERVISOR

Manuel Garcia WAREHOUSE MANAGER

Neal Anderson

MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATE

John Musselman

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

DEVELOPMENT

Josh Harrold DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS

Janneke Straub DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP GIFTS

Robin Green

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND OFFICE MANAGER

Kellynn Meeks

SENIOR BOARD AND EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR

Zade Dardari

ANNUAL FUND SPECIALIST

Joy Smythe-Macaulay ANNUAL FUND COORDINATOR

INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Benji Railton-Ashe DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Christian Johnsten

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR AND PLANNED GIFTS

Katherine Miranda

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MAJOR GIFTS

Evangeline Santos

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Tim Stephenson MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Kylie Smith

PROSPECT RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Claudia Giugni

DONOR STEWARDSHIP SPECIALIST

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Joslyn Treece

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

Francesca Cloete INSTITUTIONAL GIVING SPECIALIST

SPECIAL EVENTS

Lauren McLaughlin

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS

Caitlin Harper EVENTS DESIGN MANAGER

FINANCE

Deborah Gould CONTROLLER

Peter Pendergest DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING

Jing Hu ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Daisy Lopez PAYROLL MANAGER

Brian Stefanko ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER

Rowena Matibag-Potter SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

HUMAN RESOURCES

Esmeralda Marroquin SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATOR

MUSIC ADMINISTRATION

Melisandra Dunker MUSIC LIBRARIAN

Brady Steel ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Ignazio Terrasi

MUSICAL ASSISTANT TO JAMES CONLON

Josephine Lee ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Marlene Meraz DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Mark Lyons

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS

Rosario Diaz SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Daniel Calderon CONTENT MEDIA SPECIALIST

SALES AND MARKETING

Caitlin Carlson CREATIVE CONTENT DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Galvan

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LOYALTY MARKETING

Pauline Hwa

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ACQUISITION MARKETING

Keith J. Rainville

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, BRAND & DESIGN

Terrance Lovecraft INTERACTIVE & GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Yesenia Vargas

MARKETING STRATEGIC

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Victoria Rey

MARKETING OPERATIONS AND EVENT SPECIALIST

TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT

Jeff Kleeman

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Carolina Angulo

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL DESIGN

Margie Schnibbe

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATION

Stephanie Santiago

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL OPERATIONS AND OFF GRAND PRODUCTION

Lisa Coto

PROPERTIES COORDINATOR

James Pomichter

PRODUCTION MEDIA MANAGER

Natalie Ferguson

TECHNICAL DESIGN COORDINATOR

Damon Schindler

RESIDENT LEAD SCENIC ARTIST

Chris Carey TECHNICAL PAYROLL OFFICER

Dani Monterroso

TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

Jennifer Gonzalez

LIGHTING ASSISTANT

Deborah Gutierrez WALLY RUSSELL LIGHTING INTERN

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Michael Masuda

NETWORK MANAGER

Alex Badali

Brian Urrutia APPLICATIONS ADMINISTRATORS

ACADEMY INTERNS

Diego Castro Arielle Escareno

Elise Fukuda

Cornelio Garcia

CONSULTANTS

Stephen King

Alan Munoz Sofia Padilla Elisa Raya Bejay Villanueva

HEAD OF VOCAL INSTRUCTION, DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Paul Curran

HEAD OF DRAMATIC STUDIES, DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Studio Fuse

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Marlinda Menashe

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT

Patricia McLeod

CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT

30th Anniversary Angels

MARC STERN, CHAIR

We celebrate our 30th Anniversary Angels who build on the inspiring legacy of the company’s Founding Angels and the many generous Angels who followed them. They have provided the necessary foundational support for world-class opera in Los Angeles.

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Colburn Foundation

County of Los Angeles

Dunard Fund USA

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

The Blue Ribbon

Ana and Robert Cook

Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

The Alexander Furlotti Foundation

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Peter and Diane Gray

The Green Foundation

Margo Leavin

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Gordon Getty

The Lenore S. and Bernard A.

Greenberg Fund

Carol and Warner Henry

Terri and Jerry Kohl

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation

Nanette and Keith Leonard LGHG Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Dan Murphy Foundation

The Okun Family, in memory of Milton Okun

Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

Andrea Pessino

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Suzanne Rheinstein, in honor of Fred Rheinstein

25th Anniversary Angels

Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate

Ronus Foundation

The Seaver Family

Marilyn Ziering

Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr., Trust

Ariane and Lionel Sauvage

David and Linda Shaheen

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ann Ziff

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

MARC STERN, CHAIR

LA Opera recognizes and thanks those who made extraordinary leadership commitments in honor of the 25th Anniversary Season, ensuring the company’s continued artistic excellence and prominence in the worldwide cultural community.

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle MuscoThe Seaver Family

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

Annenberg Foundation

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

The Blue Ribbon

Alex Bouzari

Robert Day

Dunard Fund USA

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

Gordon Getty

Carol and Warner Henry

Alfred and Claude Mann

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

The Green Foundation

Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, in honor of Leonard Green

LGHG Foundation

Rosemary and Milton Okun

The Milan Panic Family

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

20th Anniversary Angels

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Flora L. Thornton

Marilyn Ziering

Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Ronus Foundation

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ziering Family Foundation

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

MARC STERN, CHAIR

LA Opera wishes to honor those individuals who have made an extraordinary leadership commitment to the company. Building upon the remarkable foundation created by the Founding and Domingo’s Angels, the outstanding support of the 20th Anniversary Angels has helped ensure an artistically vibrant and financially secure future for LA Opera.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles

Carol and Warner Henry

Alfred and Claude Mann

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Flora L. Thornton

Marilyn Ziering

20th Anniversary Angels (continued)

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

Annenberg Foundation

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

Yuki and Alex Bouzari

Nancy Daly

Edgar Foster Daniels

Kelly and Robert Day

Leslie and John Dorman

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

The Green Foundation

Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, in honor of Leonard Green

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E.

Levine Family Foundation

LGHG Foundation

Beatrix F. Padway, in honor of Nathaniel W. Finston

Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic

Domingo’s Angels

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn)

Barbara Augusta Teichert

The Joop van den Ende Foundation

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ziering Family Foundation

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

MARC STERN, CHAIR

MARY HAYLEY, CO-CHAIR

WARNER HENRY, CO-CHAIR

Domingo’s Angels are individuals who made a leadership commitment to fulfilling the artistic initiatives of the Domingo Seasons, 2001-2005. Their remarkable generosity provided a new threshold from which the artistic professionals associated with LA Opera created and produced opera that thrilled and inspired Los Angeles audiences and the world.

Robert V. Adams and Barbara Abercrombie

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

Colburn Foundation

Kelly and Robert Day

Marta and Plácido Domingo

Leslie and John Dorman

The Green Foundation

Lenore and Bernard Greenberg

Carol and Warner Henry

Walter Lantz Foundation / Edward A. Landry, Trustee

Rosemary and Milton Okun

Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic

Founding Angels

Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

The Skirball Foundation

Flora L. Thornton Foundation

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

WARNER HENRY, CHAIR

LA Opera is grateful for the vision, boldness and extraordinary generosity of the Founding Angels, whose commitment to the company in its early years helped ensure the future of opera in Los Angeles.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Ash

Dorothy Collins Brown

Mr. Richard D. Colburn

The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation Forman Family Foundation

Gordon Getty

The Emese and Leonard Green Foundation

Carol and Warner Henry

Opera League of Los Angeles

Artistic Excellence Circle

Richard Seaver

The Skirball Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Straus

Flora L. Thornton Foundation

LA Opera recognizes the dedicated individuals whose annual support ensures that the finest singers, conductors, directors and designers bring the power and beauty of the art form to our stage. To learn more, call John Nuckols at 213.972.7256.

PREMIER DIAMOND PATRON ($500,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

The Ahmanson Foundation

GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation

Gregory and Régina Weingarten

Herbert Berk Estate

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Colburn Foundation

Cosgrove Family Trust

Dunard Fund USA

Valerie Franklin Estate

Gemini Industries, Inc.

Gordon Getty

Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg

Opera Fund

Carol and Warner Henry

Joan H. Hotchkis Fund, in honor of

Joan and John Hotchkis

Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Margo Leavin

Nanette and Keith Leonard

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Kathryn Barger

Alfred E. Mann Charities

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Chris and Dick Newman

The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund

(Tara Colburn)

Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

Andrea Pessino

Estate of Cat Pollon

Suzanne and Fred Rheinstein

Ronus Foundation

The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Ms. Barbara Augusta Teichert

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Marilyn Ziering

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley /

Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

Artistic Excellence Circle (continued)

DIAMOND PATRON ($250,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

Estate of Lea Danberg

Leslie and John Dorman

Penelope Foley

The Green Foundation

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation

Dan Murphy Foundation

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

PREMIER PLATINUM PATRON ($150,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (3)

The Armenian Consortium

Patricia Artigas and Lucas Etchegaray

The Blue Ribbon

Ana and Robert Cook

Michael and Jane Eisner

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, M.D.

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

James Mulally

Peake Ranch

Michele and Dudley Rauch / The Rauch Family Foundation

Barry and Nancy Sanders

PLATINUM PATRON ($100,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (3)

Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing

Jules Brenner Trust

Barbara Burtin

Margaret Sheehy Collins

Estate of Edgar Foster Daniels

De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

Manuel Gutierrez, in memory of George Sponhaltz

Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera

THE OPERA COUNCIL

Freya and Mark Ivener

Richard Kendall and Lisa See

Lawrence A. Kern

LGHG Foundation, in memory of Louise Garland

L.L. Foundation for Youth

Patty and Ken McKenna

The Music Man Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

David Niemetz and Noriko Tachibana

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Ariane and Lionel Sauvage

The David and Linda Shaheen Foundation

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP

Marie H. Song

Ann Ziff

David Sanders Living Trust

Laura and Carlton Seaver

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Christopher V. Walker

Scott Watt Family

The Opera League of Los Angeles

Dr. Heinrich and Barbara Schelbert

Susan R. Shapiro

Thurmond Smithgall

Alan and Janet Stanford

Ellen and Arnold Zetcher

Nadia Zilkha, Michael Zilkha and Emma-Louise Hayley, in memory of Mary Hayley Zilkha

Jane D. Zimmerman Trust

Chaired by Paul and Catherine Tosetti

The dedicated support of the Opera Council enables LA Opera to achieve its artistic goals. This program offers exclusive privileges and behind-the-scenes opportunities to those individuals, foundations and corporations who make annual gifts of $25,000 or more. For information, please call 213.972.3160.

GRAND GOLD PATRON ($75,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (2)

Dr. Robert Adler and Alexis Deutsch-Adler

Mr. James Asperger and Ms. Christine Adams

Mr. Haig S. Bagerdjian

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

Kathleen and Jerrold Eberhardt

Diane and Peter Gray

GRAND GOLD PATRON

($50,000 & ABOVE)

Rian Johnson

Monique and Jonathan Kagan

Susan Lord and Scott Richard Lord

The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Anthony and Olivia Neece

Linda Pierce

Anonymous (2)

Ahsan Aijaz

Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation

Raffaella Belanich

Paul and Marie-France Bloch Fund at The Miami Foundation

Lynn A. Booth and Kent Kresa

The Otis Booth Foundation

Maynard and Linda Brittan

Janet and Nicholas Ciriello

Family of Ginger Conrad

Charlotte Coulombe and Stuart Schoenmann

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Zev Yaroslavsky

Tamsen Z

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Gila Michael

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($15,000 & ABOVE)

Dr. Ronald Gabriel

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Anonymous (8)

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Adar Family Trust

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Canyon Partners, LLC

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Chase Hodge-Brokenburr

Barbara Holman

Keller Anderle LLP

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PATRONS OF LA OPERA

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Lori Greene Gordon

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Renee Kumetz

L.A. Care Health Plan

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Anonymous (3)

Jerome M. Applebaum

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W. Allan Edmiston, Jr., M.D.

The Esther Foundation

Dr. Jon Fellows and Judith Hemenway

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PREMIER BENEFACTOR ($5,000 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (9)

Anthony and Lucinda Alden

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Honey Kessler Amado

The Maurice Amado Foundation

The Amphion Foundation, Inc.

Hope Anderson

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Armenian Missionary Association of America, Inc.

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Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Koppelman

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Roos

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Laura Maslon

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Bo Mills

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Park Bixby Tower, Inc.

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Cliff and Toni Reston

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LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District

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Foundation

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BENEFACTOR ($3,500 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (5)

In memory of Dr. Yoshio Akiyama

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Aversa Foundation

David Baltimore and Alice Huang

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Ms. Mary Jo Markey

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Margaret Epstein

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Leanne Freeman

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Susan Shapiro

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Christine Gregory

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Richard Holland Trust

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Ellis Chernoff

Dr. Timothy Ching

Betty Cleeland

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Joseph and Farima Czyzyk

The Dabney Family

Claus Dieckell

Michiko Dunker

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Van and Francine Durrer

Lisa Farrell

Thomas Farrell

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Amy Friedkin

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Arthur and Helen Geoffrion

Charmaine Glennon

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Christine Gregory

Annie Gross

Carolyn and Harvey Gurman

Norma A. Harris and Frank Packard III

Samuel Harris

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Lee Hendrix

Barbara Herman

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Frank Humberstone

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Kedra Ishop

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Paul Jennings

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Stacy B. Young

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Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald

Anne Kwun

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Diane S. Lake

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Peter and Electra Lang

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Mary H. Lewis

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Bryan Mershon

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Olga Moretti

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Gary W. Murphy

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Philanthropic Foundation

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By making a gift through the Foundation, you can support performances that thread our community together.

To learn more about how to leave a lasting legacy with the Music Center Foundation, contact Justin Marsh: 213-972-8046, jmarsh@musiccenterfoundation.org

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Center Theatre Group Student Matinee; photo by Cristina Burgos

Magical Music and Medicine: An Interview with LA Opera Young Artist Emily Damasco

Soprano Emily Damasco, who plays the plucky Papagena in this production of The Magic Flute, has been delivering gripping performances and inspiring audiences through healthcare collaborations long before she graced our stage, even creating a groundbreaking music program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In this abridged conversation from LA Opera’s Behind the Curtain podcast, Damasco joins Senior Director of Artistic Planning Paul Hopper to share how a familial legacy and supportive community led her to continue this work in Los Angeles, where LA Opera Connects has proven itself a leader at the intersection of arts and health.

Paul Hopper: Hello everyone, I am LA Opera’s Senior Director of Artistic Planning, Paul Hopper, and today we are sitting down with Young Artist Emily Damasco, who will be performing Papagena in The Magic Flute. To start off, we love to do a little bit of an icebreaker. How did you get into opera and classical music?

Emily Damasco: My grandmother actually did some singing in her time, when she was younger. I began singing when I was around four or five. My grandmother kind

LA Opera Connects brings music into hospitals and digital wellness spaces while providing engaging resources including videos, podcasts, and workbooks. Learn more at LAOpera.org/ ArtsandHealth

Soprano Emily Damasco performs at a Magical Music and Medicine presentation at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

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Behind the Curtain

Calling all teachers: Let LA Opera Connects help you plan outstanding artistic experiences for your students; applications are open now for our 2026/27 season of In School Opera residencies and free field trips for all ages. LAOpera.org/ForSchoolsandTeachers

of heard a different timbre in my voice, and said “get her into classical lessons.” That’s where it all started, from my grandmother and her influence.

PH: It sounds like you’re continuing her legacy. I believe one of your first musical encounters was with Puccini’s La Bohème. Tell us about that experience.

ED: At the time, my teacher was playing Mimì in Bohème. She said “we’re looking for a child to sing the chorus; just sing as loud as you can.” They used the full orchestra and costuming and everything, so that was great for young Emily to experience. Over time, I really started to understand what opera, what music is for me. And community was one of the big things; that’s what I really enjoyed about it. I began to create my chosen family.

PH: That’s one of the priorities of LA Opera, how music and the arts can impact the community, oftentimes through healing components—I know that you have some experience with that as well. While you were in Philadelphia, you founded Magical Music and Medicine, which was a collaborative project with music therapists at the Children’s Hospital. Can you tell us a little bit about that project?

ED: Part of why I sing is through a healing aspect. The amount of times my grandmother was mostly sick towards the end of her life... I saw my grandmother immerse herself in music when she was going through so much pain.

Magical Music and Medicine is a way that we as musicians can add a healing or a comfort aspect to the personnel or patients in the hospital. I curated this program, choosing five to six musicians, and we sang in the lobby. Children’s Hospital Philadelphia is quite a tall building, about nine floors, so the sound was like a church. You would go in and sing and it would rise up so everybody on every floor could hear it. People would stop by up on the ninth floor. People would stop on the steps. They were just so taken by hearing music like that.

The Ryan Seacrest Foundation has a connection with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, so they were able to broadcast it like a TV show to all of the rooms, because a lot of times the patients cannot travel outside and some of them just needed a way to escape for a bit. This is part of why we make music, and that was a beautiful moment for all of us.

PH: LA Opera has a lot of programs and experience dealing with this intersection of arts and health. I encourage you to check out a lot of the work that the Connects department does. You can check out LAOpera.org/Connects to see the incredible work that they’re doing all over the LA community and their partnerships, both locally and nationally. It’s really fantastic work.

Discover cuttingedge research and experience the healing power of music through hands-on activities at the fifth annual LA County Arts and Health Week Summit, hosted by

Renée Fleming, on Friday, June 12 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Visit LAOpera.org/Summit to register online and browse our schedule of Arts and Health Week activations around LA County.

The conversation continues on Behind the Curtain. Scan the QR code to listen to the full episode, “Arts & Health in Opera with LA Opera Young Artist Emily Damasco and Paul Hopper,” featuring pierogi pizza, a glimpse into Emily’s hip-hop playlist, and the melody that found Paul’s grandmother when words could not.

The 2026/27 Season

The Magic Flute may be closing out our 40th Anniversary Season, but we’re just getting started! There’s plenty more opera right around the corner as Domingo Hindoyan kicks off his first season as LA Opera’s next Music Director. Up first: a bold new Carmen that’s sure to turn heads. And that’s only the beginning— more favorite operas, fresh productions, and the kind of inventive, boundary-pushing performances you won’t see anywhere else are all on the way. We can’t wait to share it with you. Take a look at everything coming up and start planning your next night at the opera at LAOpera.org!

Carmen

Candide

The Marriage of Figaro

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Turandot

Hercules vs. Vampires

The Old Man and the Sea

Domingo Hindoyan

Nabucco Hildegard

PHOTO BY KEN HOWARD

BELLA VOCE PATRONS (IRREVOCABLE ESTATE GIFTS)

LA Opera is grateful for the generosity and foresight of opera lovers who have established future gifts to the company in their estate plans.

Natsuko Akiyama, in memory of Yoshio Akiyama

Dr. & Mrs. Julio Aljure

Gracia Alkema & C. Terry Hendrix

Karen Alpert Trust

John Altschul

Mr. Marvin Antonowsky

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ash

Shirley Ashkenas

Shirley Lee Barasch

Ms. Angela Bardowell

Estate of Margaret and David N. Barry III

Ambassador Frank & Kathy Baxter

Karen M. Beecher

Herbert M. Berk

Anne Boundy

The Samuel M. Brainin Trust

Carol & Normand Brewer

Jacqueline Briskin

Maynard & Linda Brittan

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Christine Brodie

Richard & Norma Camp

T. Robert Chapman Trust

David Chierichetti

Edward E. & Alicia Garcia Clark

Richard D. & Lisa K. Colburn

The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund

(Tara Colburn)

Nancy Cook

Cosgrove Family Trust

Michele McGarry Crahan

Estate of Nancy Daly

Janet & Roger DeBard

Teresa DeCrescenzo

Estate of Phyllis & Donal Dreifus

The George A.V. Dunning Fund / California Community Foundation

Allan & Diane Eisenman

Gerald Faris

Adell Fink

Theodore Hill Finney

Claudia & Mark Foster

Herbert O. and Jean Fox

Kara Kass Fox

Estate of Valerie Franklin

Allen B. Freitag Trust

Ronald Frydman

Gerri Lee Frye

Roger Gallizzi and James Willey

Nancy Gentry Geller Trust

Gwynne M. Gloege

Estate of Barbara Goldenberg

Eric A. Gordon

Leonard Green

Bernard and Lenore Greenberg

Susan R. Greer

Joyce and Joelle Grinker

Estate of Walter O. Halden

Betty Hall Trust

Roy Hamilton

The Jerome G. Handelsman Trust

Hildegard Harris

Lee & David Hayutin

Anne Heineman

Estate of Harvey B. Heller

Warner & Carol Henry

Yvonne & Gordon Hessler

BELLA VOCE PATRONS (FUTURE GIFTS)

Anonymous (8)

Helen Mae Almas

Patti Amstutz

Robert C. Anderson

Sharon Baranoff

James C. Bassett, Ph.D.

Randall C. Bassett

Nancy Griffith Baxter

Linda S. Becktold

James M. Bell

Lorna D. Blancaflor

Dr. Judith F. Blumenthal

Rebecca Bowne

Hans and Dianne Bozler

Ms. Dale Bridges Johannsen

Mrs. Michele Brustin

Sharon A. Bryan

Elizabeth B. & Elwood S. Buffa

Jacqueline & Henry Cahn

Todd Calvin

Dr. Alisa Cone Camberlan

Leigh Robinson Cartwright

Drs. Carol & David Cass

Julia Cherry

Elisabeth O. Clark, Ph.D., Psy.D.

Cecelia R. Cole

Bernice Colman

Ginger Conrad

Hilary Crahan

Keith Crasnick Family Trust

Drs. Nazareth & Ani Darakjian

Lawrence E. Deutsch

Amy Lyn DeZwart and George Betar

Leslie & John Dorman

Mary Kathryn Dunn

Anthony P. Eccher and Richard Conner Trust

Gerald Elijah/Octaveous Starr

Maureen Engelhard

Daniel Fink, M.D.

Richard Cullen and Robert Finnerty

David F. Freedman

Leanne Freeman

Dr. Michael A. Friedman and Dr. Elizabeth M. Short

Mr. & Mrs. John Garvey

James Gelb and Diane Morton

Dr. Melinda Gilmore

Jerome J. Glaser

Joyce & Eric Goldman

Rebecca Gomez

Marielle Gottlieb

Ms. Nancy A. Grant

Donna & Greg Griffith

Gary Gugelchuk

Susan D. Heard

Laura C. Hecht

Ms. Nita Heimbaugh

Dr. Jon Fellows and Judith Hemenway

Malcolm T. Henderson

Marcia and Dr. Paul Herman

Freddi and Dr. Kenneth D. Hill

Mike Hiscocks, in memory of Carol Roberts

Linda J. Hodge

Dr. Ronald Hopkins

Sharon & Donald Jackley

Norman W. & Rose M. Jaffe

Bruce Johansen

Joan H. Hotchkis Fund

Joan & John Hotchkis

Drs. Herbert and Judith Hyman

Mr. & Mrs. David K. Ingalls

Robert Jesberg and

Michael J. Carmody

Estate of H. Kirkland Jones

Sylvia & Vernon D. Jones

Estate of Stephen A. Kanter

Lawrence A. Kern

Joyce and Kent Kresa

Helen LammIvan and Hilda Layda / Layda Family Trust

Margo Leavin

The Norman & Sadie Lee Foundation

Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine

Dr. Paul E. LeMal

Raymond A. Lieberman Trust

Robert & Marguerite Marsh

Wolfgang E. Marum Trust

In memory of Terry Roberta Matthies

Linda May Suzar

Dr. Michael McGuire

Paula Kent Meehan

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Miller

The Jane Moore Family Trust

Diane and Leon Morton

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Anthony & Olivia Neece

Joan Harding Newman

Mei-Lee Ney

Estate of Beatrix F. Padway

Mr. Milan Panic

Lenore and Carl Pearlston

Dr. Barbara Johnston

Ms. Mary Teresa Johnston

Dr. & Mrs. William Kern

Dr. Stephen Knafel

Linda L. R. Knight

Richard P. & Meredith B. Kramer

Victoria and Douglas Lane

Larry Layne

Robert M. Lea

Mr. and Mrs. Lou D. Liuzzi

Gloria Lothrop

Mr. Jeff MacKey

Gerrie Maloof

Hon. Nora M. Manella

Sam I. Matsumoto/Gordon J. Geever Trust

Edward McCann

McCone Grand Opera Fund

Steven D. McGinty

Cynthia McWhirt

The Minturn Family Charitable

Foundation

Michael and Lorraine Mohill

Nancy-Gene W. Morrison

Barbara and Maury Mortensen

Mary Jane Myers

Gordon & Rosie Ornelas Olson

Dr. Sophia Pak

Janet Petersen

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Prusan

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Pudenz

Robert and Phyllis Reid

Jeanne E. Roerig

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. Rogers

Mimi Rotter

Chloe Pollock-Mieczkowski

Cat Jagger Pollon

Mrs. Jean Powell

Nan Rae

Suzanne Rheinstein

Christine P. Ries

Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr., Trust

The L. Franc Scheuer Trust

The Malcolm Schneer LAOC Trust

The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera

Archie Sharp

Milton Singer

Mr. & Mrs. William Smollen

Ellen & Harry Sondheim, in memory of Betty & Felix Leibholz

Estate of Mr. Arthur Spitzer

Marilyn & Eugene Stein/ Capital Group Companies

Marc & Eva Stern

Estate of Gaby K. Tanas

Flora L. Thornton & Eric L. Small

Estate of C. Dickson Titus III

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Rose Vardanian

Ms. Carol Vernon and Mr. Robert Turbin

Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Mark A. Weaver

Estate of Monica Weil and Paul Schrade

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

Douglas B. Wood

Sharon and Fillmore Wood

Irene Zimmerman

Lawrence Rubenstein, Ph.D.

Frank D. Rubin

Dr. Jeanne W. Ruderman

Maged Salib

Elizabeth Loucks Samson

Melody & Warren Schubert

Mr. & Mrs. Christof E. Schwab

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Richard and Ellyn Semler

Olga Sevilla

John Jacob Shaak

Marilyn Shapiro

Lynn Foster Sipe

Melissa Siskowic

Terry & Dennis Stanfill

R. Rhoads Stephenson

Donna Stillo

James and Ellen Strauss

Ms. Amanda F. Susskind

Elisabeth Tamari

Iris & Robert Teragawa

Dr. Elaine Totten and Mr. Barclay Totten

Mrs. Ella Upsher

Dr. Michael Upsher

Larry Verdugo

Barbara and Ken Warner

Michael Weber & Frances Spivy-Weber

Aviva Weiner

Janice and Mitchell Wellsteed, in memory of Robert Tomson

Linda & Robert E. Willett

Wesley and Rachel Williamson

Tana Wong

IT’S BETTER LIVE

LA Opera is supported, in part, by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan.

County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors

Kathryn Barger

Janice Hahn, Chair

Lindsey P. Horvath

Holly J. Mitchell

Hilda L. Solis

Los Angeles County Dept. of Arts & Culture

Kristin Sakoda, Executive Director

National Endowment for the Arts

Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Chair

California Arts Council

Danielle Brazell, Executive Director

City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

Daniel Tarica, General Manager

Concert and Home Rentals

Blüthner Pianos (since 1853)

Neupert Harpsichords (since 1868)

Schiedmayer Celesta (since 1890)

SUPPORTERS

MATCHING

GIFTS

LA Opera is pleased to acknowledge the companies that support our company with matching gift programs. Under a corporate matching gift program, cash gifts from eligible employees are matched with company or corporate foundation funds. This additional contribution increases a participating employee’s membership level, enhancing their benefits and privileges of membership.

Please call 213.972.7277 for more information.

AmazonSmile

Amgen Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Benevity

The Boeing Company

The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation

Chevron Corporation

CNA Foundation

Colony NorthStar Employees Community Fund of Boeing

Goldman Sachs & Co.

The J. Paul Getty Trust

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc.

Morgan Stanley

Netflix

PPG Foundation

Sempra

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Thrivent

The Walt Disney Company

Welcome to The Music Center!

L.A.’s performing arts center is your place to enjoy the magic of live performances and special events, with the stories that unite us and the moments that remind us why the arts matter. Across our theatres, on Jerry Moss Plaza and in Gloria Molina Grand Park, there is always something to inspire and connect us all.

We are dedicated to ensuring you have the best possible experience here. Help us keep The Music Center safe, inclusive and welcoming for everyone by visiting musiccenter.org/guestagreement.

Find out what’s happening next at musiccenter.org—your guide to performances, celebrations and events across our campus.

@musiccenterla

General Information (213) 972-7211 | musiccenter.org

Support The Music Center (213) 972-3333 | musiccenter.org/support

TAKE A FREE TOUR!

Step behind-the-scenes of one of the world’s leading performing arts centers. Our free, 90-minute docent-led tours invite you to discover the stories, architecture and art that bring the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Jerry Moss Plaza to life.

Tours run daily—visit musiccenter.org to check the schedule and make a day of it in Downtown L.A.!

2025/2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

Robert J. Abernethy

Chair

Cary J. Lefton

Darrell D. Miller

Vice Chairs

Rachel S. Moore

President & CEO

Michael J. Pagano

Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner

Treasurer

William Taylor

Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Charlene Achki Repko

Charles F. Adams

William H. Ahmanson

Romesh Anketell

Jill C. Baldauf

Phoebe Beasley

Kristin Burr

Alberto M. Carvalho

Elizabeth Khuri Chandler

Terri B. Childs

Cástulo de la Rocha

William E. Dolan

Amy R. Forbes

Greg T. Geyer

Joan E. Herman

Jeffrey M. Hill

Jonathan B. Hodge

Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen

Maria Rosario Jackson

Ronald D. Kaplan

Richard B. Kendall

Lily Lee

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.

Kelsey N. Martin

Elizabeth Michelson

Cindy Miscikowski

Teresita Notkin

Karen Kay Platt

Susan Erburu

Joseph J. Rice

Beverly P. Ryder

Thomas L. Safran

Maria S. Salinas

Corinne Jessie

Sanchez

Mimi Song

Johnese Spisso

Michael Stockton

Jason Subotky

Timothy S. Wahl

Jennifer M. Walske

GENERAL COUNSEL

Rollin A. Ransom

DIRECTORS

EMERITI

Peter K. Barker

Judith Beckmen

Darrell R. Brown

Ronald W. Burkle

John B. Emerson **

Richard M. Ferry

Bernard A. Greenberg

Kent Kresa

Mattie McFaddenLawson

Fredric M. Roberts

Richard K. Roeder

Joni J. Smith

Lisa Specht **

Cynthia A. Telles

James A. Thomas

Andrea L. Van de Kamp **

Thomas R. Weinberger

** Chair Emeritus

Current as of 4/28/26

John McCoy for The Music Center.

New York City Ballet. Photo by Erin Baiano.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

Kathryn Barger Supervisor, Fifth District

Janice Hahn Supervisor, Fourth District

Hilda L. Solis Chair, First District

Lindsey P. Horvath Supervisor, Third District

Holly J. Mitchell Chair Pro Tem, Second District

(From left to right)

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

As a steward of The Music Center of Los Angeles County, we recognize that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands. We are dedicated to growing and sustaining relationships with Native peoples and local tribal governments, including (in no particular order) the:

• Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

• Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California Tribal Council

• Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians

• Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation

• San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

• San Fernando Band of Mission Indians

To learn more about the First Peoples of Los Angeles County, please visit the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission website at lanaic.lacounty.go

Photo Credit: David Franco, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Photographer.

Happening at The Music Center

TUE 2 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

Primary Trust

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

@ Mark Taper Forum Thru 6/28/2026

WED 3 JUN / 8:00 p.m.

Joshua Bell • Jeremy Denk LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

THU 4 JUN / 8:00 p.m.

Gustavo Dudamel: Celebrating the Musicians of the LA Phil LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

SAT 6 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

The Magic Flute LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 6/21/2026

SCAN TO VIEW FULL CALENDAR

JUNE

2026

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. @musiccenterla

SAT 13 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

Renée Fleming in Recital LA Opera

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

FRI 5 JUN / 8:00 p.m.

Gustavo Dudamel: Celebrating 17 Years LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 6/7/2026

TUE 23 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

Mamma Mia!

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

@ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 7/19/2026

WED 24 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

New York City Ballet

THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 6/28/2026

FRI 26 JUN / 5:00 p.m.

The Music Center's ¡Dale! Fútbol Watch Party

Spain v. Uruguay

THE MUSIC CENTER

/ TMC ARTS

@ Jerry Moss Plaza

FRI 26 JUN / 7:00 p.m.

The Music Center's Dance DTLA

Global Mix

THE MUSIC CENTER / TMC ARTS

@ Jerry Moss Plaza

Photo by Will Yang for The Music Center.

Tiler Peck, Roman Mejia, and New York City Ballet in George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante. Photo credit Erin Baiano.

I’m a

So, if you see me talking to myself (after 9 showings in one day), please do not disturb.

I’m having a staff meeting.