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CONTENTS A WELCOME FROM PRESIDENT AND 6 CEO CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH SAINTS, SINNERS, 8 AND ESPAÑA OCULTA
Blood and dust, flickering candles, sacred rituals and forbidden desires: director and designer Thaddeus Strassberger reveals the inspirations behind his darkly beautiful new production of Carmen.
18 THE THINGS WE KNOW
Discover Enrique Martínez Celaya’s monumental new artwork for LA Opera— a theater curtain that transforms as it rises, exploring what we hold close and the vastness that lies beyond.
20 CANDIDE: BEHIND THE MASTERPIECE
From Voltaire’s wicked wit to Bernstein’s dazzling score, discover the big ideas, colorful personalities and unexpected twists that brought Candide from page to stage.
P1 TODAY’S PERFORMANCE
Meet the cast and creative team.
30 MEET THE MAESTRO
From El Sistema to the world’s great stages, get to know Domingo Hindoyan—and discover the journey that brought LA Opera’s new Music Director to Los Angeles.
Domingo Hindoyan steps into his new role as Music Director Photo credit: Chelsea Lauren
36 BEHIND THE CURTAIN
In an interview drawn from our podcast series, Domingo Hindoyan talks about the power of music, connecting with the community and beginning his new chapter at LA Opera.
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A NOTE FROM PRESIDENT AND CEO CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH
Welcome to LA Opera Dear friends: This season marks a defining moment for LA Opera, one in which our history, our ambitions and our belief in the future converge. Domingo Hindoyan’s arrival as our Richard Seaver Music Director has opened an exciting new chapter, and his performances of Carmen offer a thrilling introduction to his artistry and vision. Domingo brings charismatic leadership, a collaborative spirit and infectious enthusiasm and warmth. His reverence for opera’s great traditions is matched by a commitment to its future—and a belief in its power to move us, connect us and transform how we understand the world. For our landmark new production of Carmen, director/designer Thaddeus Strassberger evokes a dark, mysterious world of devotion, superstition, desire and danger. Antonio Najarro, a leading figure in flamenco and Spanish dance, brings physical energy to a work in which music and movement are inseparable. Rihab Chaieb stars alongside two distinguished alumni of our Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program: Joshua Guerrero as Don José and Kathleen O’Mara as Micaëla. Liam James Karai makes his U.S. debut as Escamillo. I gratefully acknowledge the generous underwriters who made our new Carmen possible: Joan H. Hotchkis Fund, in honor of Joan and John Hotchkis; Terri and Jerry Kohl; Linda and Alvaro Pascotto; Keith R. Leonard, Jr.; Alfred E. Mann Charities; The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc.; The Blue Ribbon; and The Domingo Hindoyan Music Director’s Circle, an affiliate of the Producing Partners Consortium. My deepest thanks also go to The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund for underwriting Rihab Chaieb’s performance, and to Diane and Peter Gray for their additional support for Joshua Guerrero’s performance. I also thank Terri and Jerry Kohl for once again chairing the Opera Ball that opened this landmark season. Our second production celebrates the breadth of LA Opera’s repertory and the extraordinary imagination of Leonard Bernstein. Equally at home on Broadway and in the opera house, Candide combines dazzling music, wicked humor and a tenacious belief in our capacity to build a better world. Its hero’s improbable adventures lead to a conclusion that feels especially welcome today: hope takes root in what we do together. Two celebrated performers bring star power and impeccable comic instincts to this revival. Scott Bakula makes his LA Opera debut in the dual role of Voltaire and Dr. Pangloss, the philosopher whose boundless optimism survives even the most outrageous calamities. The incomparable Patti LuPone returns for her third role with us as the resourceful Old Lady, a survivor with a remarkable past and an answer for everything. It is a pleasure to welcome these artists to our stage for Bernstein’s exuberant adventure. Joining them are Duke Kim in the title role, returning after his recent appearances in our Roméo et Juliette and West Side Story, and Meghan Picerno in her company debut as Cunegonde. Resident Conductor Lina GonzálezGranados leads our revival of Francesca Zambello’s delightful production. I thank Andrea Pessino, The Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund, and Ceil and Michael Pulitzer for making this production possible. We dedicate it to Bernard A. Greenberg, one of LA Opera’s founding board members. I am also grateful for a gift from the Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award to underwrite Duke Kim’s performance. Throughout the season, audiences at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will encounter The Things We Know, the monumental curtain artwork by artist Enrique Martínez Celaya, generously underwritten by Mei-Lee Ney. As the curtain rises and disappears into darkness, it makes way for the stories we have gathered to share. It is a beautiful metaphor for this moment in our company’s life: honoring what has brought us here while opening ourselves to all that lies ahead. Sincerely,
Christopher Koelsch
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LA OPERA
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* Barry A. Sanders* Eugene P. Stein* Regina Weingarten* VICE CHAIRMEN
Penelope D. Foley* TREASURER
Paul D. Tosetti* SECRETARY
Bernard A. Greenberg‡
VICE CHAIRMAN EMERITUS AND FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER
Michael A. Friedman, M.D. Sam Abbott Shaudi Fulp Ahsan Aijaz Gordon P. Getty** Patricia Artigas Diane Gray James R. Asperger Mónica Gutiérrez Roper Haig A. S. Bagerdjian Nicolas Hamatake Cheryl Baptiste Catherine H. Helm Paul Bloch Lisa Bratkovich Domingo Hindoyan† William Chase Iman H. Brivanlou, Ph.D. Hodge-Brokenburr Barbara Burtin Marlene Schall Chávez, Ph.D. Rian Johnson Tim C. Johnson Janet J. Ciriello, Ed.D. Janet Jones Robert Cook Richard Jones Mark H. Dalzell Alexis Deutsch-Adler Monique Regine Kagan Lawrence A. Kern Kathleen Kane Eberhardt* Chaz Hammel-Smith Ebert Christopher Koelsch†* Thomas F. Kranz Geoff Emery Ali Leemann, Ph.D. Dr. Annette Ermshar
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** Simon Russell Lionel M. Sauvage* Heinrich Schelbert, M.D., Ph.D. Charlotte Coulombe Schoenmann R. Carlton Seaver*
Lisa See* Tina L. Segel Linda Shaheen* Marilyn Shapiro Susan Shapiro* Eric L. Small Dr. Vina Spiehler Janet Stanford Dr. Ellen G. Strauss Mimi Won Techentin Barbara Augusta Teichert Gillian Wagner Christopher V. Walker* Andrew Xu Zev Yaroslavsky Ellen Zetcher Joakim Zetterberg Ann Ziff
LIFE TRUSTEES Ambassador Frank E. Baxter‡ Alicia Garcia Clark Don Franzen
Alexander Furlotti Joan Hotchkis‡ Sherry Lansing Harold B. Ray
Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders‡ Marvin S. Shapiro Mrs. Dennis Stanfill Richard E. Troop
Brigitta B. Troy‡ Alyce Williamson‡ Marilyn Ziering
PRESIDENTS / CHAIRMEN OF LA OPERA SINCE ITS INCEPTION Stephen D. Gavin John A. McCone Lawrence Deutsch Bernard I. Forester * Executive Committee member
Kyhl Smeby Edward W. Carter Thomas Wachtell Roy L. Ash ** Honorary
† Ex Officio
Bernard A. Greenberg Richard Seaver Leonard I. Green Marc Stern
Frank E. Baxter Carol F. Henry Keith R. Leonard, Jr.
‡ in memoriam
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A NOTE FROM DIRECTOR/DESIGNER THADDEUS STRASSBERGER
SAINTS, SINNERS, AND ESPAÑA OCULTA
CARMEN IS A PROCESSION OF THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE, EACH CHARACTER CLINGING TO A BELIEF IN LOVE, IN LAW, IN ETHNIC IDENTITY, IN FAME, ONLY TO WATCH IT VIOLENTLY UNRAVEL. 8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
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A NOTE FROM DIRECTOR/DESIGNER THADDEUS STRASSBERGER
In this new production of Carmen, we step into a deeper, darker terrain inspired heavily by Cristina García Rodero’s España Oculta, a body of photography that peers unflinchingly into Spain’s fierce, wounded, and beautiful hidden self. These images reveal a land in spiritual unrest, where bodies move in a primal choreography, clutching votives, rosaries and cigarettes, possessed by faith, longing, and fury. In the shadows, the presence of the great masters of Spanish sacred art infuses the air with the sensual agony of martyrdom depicted in the artworks of Francisco de Zurbarán and Jusepe de Ribera. Set in a liminal past, the production’s aesthetic is not far enough removed to feel sweetly nostalgic, nor is it recognizably contemporary, which would break the spell of the darkly occult magic-realism. This Carmen is blood and dust, sparkling fountains, cracked plaster, weathered skin, bare lightbulbs, lace mantillas, the shimmer of sweat. Within a psychological landscape of thousands of flickering candles, symbols of both devotion and entrapment, the stage is encircled by towering wrought iron Gothic gates. These gates are more than architectural elements that set us firmly in Seville; they are the bars of a psychological prison, evoking the crushing weight of a society bound by dogma, tradition, and fear of desire. Taken together, it’s also strikingly beautiful. In the confines of this cloistered world, Carmen becomes not just a woman of passion, but a heretic. She is a woman as brazen and emotionally stripped down as any of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s heroines, an incendiary force of instinct and freedom. Her defiance is not merely social or sexual; it is spiritual. She challenges the sanctified order, refusing to kneel to the expectations of women as silent, submissive vessels of virtue. The aesthetic language walks a knife’s edge between austerity and excess: a mysterious chiaroscuro, rituals playing out in half-shadow pierced by unrelenting, scorching beams of sunlight. Yet into this subdued palette, bursts of color erupt with violent emotional intensity. As during a procession at Seville’s La Semana Santa, when vivid color and polished splendor suddenly appear, they make a visceral impact. Against the rugged terrain of menacing smuggling cartels and the dark occult mysteries of the cities of the dead, we lean into melodrama not as exaggeration, but as truth heightened. Crafted to grab the attention of a newcomer who has never experienced the work before
Above: costume designs by Mattie Ullrich for Escamillo and Carmen.
THIS CARMEN IS BLOOD AND DUST, SPARKLING FOUNTAINS, CRACKED PLASTER, WEATHERED SKIN, BARE LIGHTBULBS, LACE MANTILLAS, THE SHIMMER OF SWEAT. but also revealing insights to those who know the opera already, this production is designed to have enduring appeal. As the world burns through its own mythologies, we create new ones in the never-ending pursuit of meaning in a life that for many is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short. May this production incite not only passion, but confrontation with the walls we build around desire, the wrought iron gates we call tradition, and the insidious violence of institutions that claim to save us while slowly extinguishing our flame.
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IN MEMORIAM
Remembering Bernard A. Greenberg For nearly the entire history of opera in Los Angeles, Bernard A. “Bernie” Greenberg was there—dreaming, building and believing in what it could become. While still a student at UCLA, Bernie envisioned a professional opera company for the city. He helped establish the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera and guided the organization through its successive evolutions, ultimately helping lay the foundation for the company that became LA Opera. When LA Opera opened its inaugural season in 1986, Bernie joined its Founding Board and went on to serve the company for four decades, including as Chairman. Together with his wife, Lenore (“Lennie”), Bernie was also one of LA Opera’s most generous supporters. Through the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund, they created an enduring legacy of artistic ambition. Their generosity was especially important in helping LA Opera take artistic risks and champion adventurous repertoire, supporting productions that ranged from Billy Budd and Tannhäuser to groundbreaking works like Einstein on
the Beach, Akhnaten, Satyagraha, Omar and Ainadamar. “If anyone could be called the founder of LA Opera, it is Bernie Greenberg,” said Board Chairman Keith R. Leonard, Jr. “Bernie believed deeply that opera could enrich lives and strengthen our community, and he worked tirelessly to make that vision a reality.” That belief extended far beyond LA Opera. Bernie and Lennie supported many of Los Angeles’s leading cultural institutions, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Music Center, MOCA and the Los Angeles Public Library. A distinguished attorney, trusted advisor and passionate music lover, Bernie will be remembered with enormous gratitude and affection. His legacy is woven into the history of LA Opera—and into the company he spent more than 70 years helping to imagine, create and sustain.
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The Joan H. Hotchkis Fund This new production of Carmen is made possible thanks to the tremendous generosity of the Joan H. Hotchkis Fund, in honor of the late Joan and John Hotchkis. Mrs. Hotchkis’s relationship with LA Opera began in its earliest days. A full subscriber from the company’s founding in 1986, she was elected to the board of directors in 1988 and served for 34 years, bringing generosity, loyalty, wisdom, and good humor to every aspect of her work. Her steadfast commitment to LA Opera was formally recognized in 2022 when she was named a Life Trustee. Mr. and Mrs. Hotchkis were pillars of support for the arts in Los Angeles. Mr. Hotchkis, though not an opera enthusiast himself, regularly joined Mrs. Hotchkis at galas and operas for over 30 years out of his immense love and devotion to her—a testament to their inspiring partnership. Mrs. Hotchkis’s own passion for the arts, cultivated during her illustrious
career at Sotheby’s, guided her philanthropy across the city. Her contributions in time and resources to LA Opera were truly transformative. Mrs. Hotchkis also served as a past president of The Blue Ribbon, an organization that continues to provide invaluable support to The Music Center resident companies. LA Opera extends its gratitude to Joan and John Hotchkis for their dedication to the arts and for their visionary gift that will continue to support the beauty of this art form onstage. With each exceptional production made possible through the Hotchkis family’s enduring dedication, their legacy at LA Opera continues on.
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Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Symphony and MUSE/IQUE, where Mr. Kohl serves on the board of directors. Their philanthropy extends throughout the Los Angeles community, including Huntington Hospital, The Huntington, Pasadena Playhouse, The Music Center, Center Theatre Group, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena Conservatory of Music and many more. Mrs. Kohl most recently served as chairman of The Blue Ribbon, The Music Center’s premier women’s support organization. The Kohls made a lead gift for Kohl Hall, the new Frank Gehry-designed concert hall at the Colburn School that will be the centerpiece of the new Colburn Center scheduled to open in the fall of 2027. They are also lead donors for the newest building at the Hollywood Bowl, the Terri and Jerry Kohl Artists Pavilion, which opened this summer. The Kohls are the founders and owners of Brighton Collectibles, a manufacturer and retailer of women’s fine jewelry and accessories. High school sweethearts, they opened their first store in 1969 and have since grown their company to over 180 stores nationwide. In addition to their personal giving, the company generously donates to a variety of national and local charities, including their Power of Pink program, which raises money to fight breast cancer. LA Opera remains immensely grateful to be among the recipients of Terri and Jerry Kohl’s passionate and generous philanthropy and thanks them for their magnificent support of Carmen and the 41st Anniversary Opera Ball.
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LA Opera is proud to present this new production of Carmen, made possible thanks to the remarkable generosity of Terri and Jerry Kohl. In addition to supporting the production, the Kohls are once again chairing Opera Ball, the Opera’s opening night gala. The Kohls have been dedicated supporters of LA Opera since 2008. In 2021, they made a transformative $5 million donation in support of the LA Opera Orchestra and pledged a challenge grant in support of the company’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kohls’ gift also helped to underwrite LA Opera’s firstever production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex in 2021, a symbolically resonant choice during the pandemic recovery period. In recognition of their most generous gift—the largest donation the company received during the pandemic and among the most significant in its history—the company named Terri and Jerry Kohl as the sole underwriters of the LA Opera Orchestra. In 2023, the Kohls extended their generosity to include underwriting support for LA Opera’s DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Deeply passionate about supporting artists, this ongoing commitment is yet another example of how the Kohls’ philanthropy has profoundly impacted the company. Furthermore, they have shown their devoted support for LA Opera by serving as Chairs for the company’s 2024 Opera Ball and last season’s Opera Ball celebrating the Opera’s 40th Anniversary. They also underwrote last season’s company premiere of West Side Story. Terri and Jerry Kohl are recognized and celebrated across Los Angeles and nationwide for their heartfelt and wide-reaching philanthropy. The Kohls provide leadership support to many of the region’s most prominent musical organizations, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Colburn School, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los
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Linda and Alvaro Pascotto LA Opera is honored to recognize Linda and Alvaro Pascotto as underwriters for this new production of Carmen and thank them for their tremendous gift in support of Domingo Hindoyan, the company’s new Richard Seaver Music Director. The Pascottos were among the first to make a leadership gift in support of Maestro Hindoyan and his bold and inspiring artistic vision. The Pascottos have a longstanding tradition of generosity to LA Opera dating back to the company's beginning, and they previously underwrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 2022. A member of LA Opera’s board of directors since 2014, Linda Pascotto plays an important role in the ongoing success of the company and currently
serves as a vice chairman and member of the executive committee. It is the Pascottos’ hope that this gift will inspire others to invest in this exciting new era for LA Opera under the musical leadership of Maestro Hindoyan and to further the company’s ability to bring innovative and unforgettable productions to our community. LA Opera is deeply grateful to Linda and Alvaro Pascotto for their unwavering commitment to the company and for all they do to support world-class opera in Los Angeles.
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Keith R. Leonard, Jr. Opera entered Keith’s life early, through his father, and never really left. What began as a childhood introduction became something deeper during the years he spent living and working in Europe—first as an officer in the U.S. Navy and later with Amgen. Surrounded by the music, history, architecture, and cultural life of Europe, opera became for him not simply an art form, but part of a larger way of experiencing the world: intensely, emotionally, and with an appetite for beauty. That sensibility has shaped Keith’s relationship with LA Opera for more than 15 years. His support began with the company’s landmark 2010 Ring cycle and has since included Tannhäuser in 2021, The Marriage of Figaro in 2023, and participation in both the 30th and 40th Anniversary Angels. In the aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires of 2025, he also led an effort to provide special support for LA Opera’s Wildfire Relief Fund, helping artists and company members whose lives had been disrupted by the fires. Keith joined LA Opera’s board of directors in 2015 and was unanimously elected chairman in 2021, following service as chair of the executive committee and vice chair of the campaign committee. Honorary Chairman Marc Stern observed, “While working alongside Keith, it quickly became clear to me that he would make an outstanding chair and the board agreed. He has the necessary business and management experience along with a
deep commitment and keen love for the opera.” Away from the opera house, Keith’s life has been equally international and entrepreneurial. His engagement with opera increasingly spans both sides of the Atlantic; in 2026, he joined the International Council of Madrid’s Teatro Real, one of Europe’s leading opera houses. A biotechnology entrepreneur and investor, he is chairman of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. and Copenhagen-based ANTAG Therapeutics ApS, and serves on the board of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. He previously founded and led KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals and served as chairman and CEO of UNITY Biotechnology, along with board service at Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Sanifit, and other organizations. For Keith, opera has always offered something rare: a place where music, theater, beauty, desire, ambition, tragedy, and human frailty all collide. Few works embody that intoxicating mixture more completely than Carmen. His support of this production reflects a belief that opera should not merely be preserved, but lived—boldly, viscerally, and with enough daring to remain unforgettable. LA Opera is deeply grateful for Keith Leonard’s leadership, generosity, and enduring passion for an art form that continues to surprise, provoke, and seduce.
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Alfred E. Mann Charities LA Opera is proud to present this season-opening production of Carmen, made possible thanks to the incredible generosity of Alfred E. Mann Charities. The Alfred Mann Trust created this fund with a series of gifts that now have an impact of over $11 million in support. Al and Claude Mann established the fund as a way of showing their devotion to LA Opera. It underwrites two productions each season, enabling the company to raise the curtain on a host of memorable presentations, which have included an earlier production of Carmen (2013), as well as La Bohème (2012, 2016, 2025), Tosca (2013, 2017, 2022), The Barber of Seville (2015), El Gato Montés (2019),
The Light in the Piazza (2019), Roberto Devereux (2020), Il Trovatore (2021), Aida (2022), Lucia di Lammermoor (2022), Don Giovanni (2023), Turandot (2023), Madama Butterfly (2024), Roméo et Juliette (2024), and West Side Story (2025). The Trustees of Alfred E. Mann Charities continue to support LA Opera to honor Mr. Mann’s legacy. Claude Mann continues to serve on the company's board of directors, a role she has held since 2008.
The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation advances the science of longer, healthier lives and champions the enduring power of classical music and opera to enrich lives for generations to come. Born to an immigrant family in Philadelphia, M. Lee Pearce, M.D., J.D. (1930–2017), graduated with honors from Hahnemann Medical College and, after practicing medicine for several years in Miami Beach, earned his law degree from the University of Miami. Leveraging his unique background as both a physician and an attorney, he built and transformed hospitals, healthcare facilities and businesses, all while cultivating a lifelong passion for classical music and grand opera. In 1984, Dr. Pearce established The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation to advance his two great callings: medicine and music. In healthcare, the Foundation funds groundbreaking translational research to bridge the gap between lifespan and healthspan. Through major partnerships with leading academic and medical institutions, the Foundation accelerates scientific discoveries that directly improve patient health and foster longer, more vibrant lives. In the field of classical music, Dr. Pearce held an
abiding devotion to the great masterworks, regarding them as essential to the human spirit. He believed that music possessed the unique ability to transcend boundaries, once reflecting that “perhaps one of my greatest interests late in life is attempting to promote world peace through classical music by uniting diverse musicians from all over the world.” Today, the Foundation honors his legacy by supporting exemplary grand opera performances that model pathways toward long-term financial sustainability. By encouraging innovative co-productions, strategic collaborations and audience-building initiatives across the field, the Foundation helps opera companies share resources, reach wider audiences and secure the vital future of the art form. LA Opera is grateful to The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation for its underwriting partnership and shared dedication to enriching lives through the arts.
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The Blue Ribbon LA Opera expresses gratitude to all the members of The Blue Ribbon for their generous support of Carmen. The Blue Ribbon has been a valued partner of LA Opera from its earliest days, recently providing production underwriting for West Side Story (2025), Madama Butterfly (2024), Don Giovanni (2023), Tosca (2022), and Il Trovatore (2021). They have also championed the company’s community and education programs. Over the past 20 seasons, The Blue Ribbon has contributed nearly $6 million to LA Opera, an impressive legacy of devoted generosity. The Blue Ribbon was founded in 1968 by Dorothy Buffum Chandler, who mobilized a dedicated group of women leaders to sustain and support The Music Center and its resident companies. The Blue Ribbon has since raised more than $83 million to promote and nurture the performing arts and arts education in Los Angeles. Its committed membership of nearly 400 is led by Beth Michelson, president, and Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen, chairman.
Since 1970, the annual Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival has welcomed over 900,000 fifth graders to The Music Center, where many of the participants experience live performance for the first time. This three-day event of performances and arts activities is one of the longest ongoing free arts education programs in California. LA Opera is grateful to The Blue Ribbon for its generous support over so many years, as a valued member of both The Music Center and LA Opera families, with special recognition for their inspiring work with children, an essential part of the company’s mission.
The Domingo Hindoyan Music Director’s Circle
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LA Opera is delighted to announce the launch of the Domingo Hindoyan Music Director’s Circle and to thank the inaugural members for their support during the 2026/27 season. Members of the Music Director’s
Circle provide a vital foundation for Maestro Hindoyan’s artistic leadership, supporting his vision for the LA Opera Orchestra and the company’s presentation of great works and exceptional artists. Through this partnership, members gain unique insight into his artistic process, with opportunities to participate in exclusive programs and travel experiences connected to his appearances at leading venues and music festivals. If you are interested in becoming a part of this exciting endeavor, please call John Nuckols at 213.972.7256.
Carol and Murray Grigor Carol F. Henry Terri and Jerry Kohl Keith R. Leonard, Jr. Linda and Alvaro Pascotto Andrea Pessino Linda and David Shaheen Marc and Eva Stern The Armenian Consortium Mrs. Michele Brustin Mark H. Dalzell Leslie and John Dorman Kathleen and Jerrold Eberhardt Penelope Foley Rian Johnson Monique and Jonathan Kagan Edward Lewis Susan Lord and Scott Richard Lord Patty McKenna Carolyn L. Miller James Mulally The Family of Ginger Conrad Susan R. Shapiro Kyle Thorpe Paul and Catherine Tosetti Ellen and Arnold Zetcher
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Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883), The Execution of Maximilian (detail), c. 1867–68, oil on canvas, © The National Gallery, London
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Mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb’s performance in the title role of Carmen has been made possible thanks to generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund. Through this leadership initiative, the Sterns underwrite the LA Opera appearances of the opera world’s most extraordinary artists each season. It is with great admiration that they have chosen to underwrite Ms. Chaieb, who made her LAO debut as Rihab Chaieb Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (2022) and returned as Dorabella in Così fan tutte (2025). Chairman of the company’s board of directors from 2002 to 2021, and now serving as Honorary Chairman, Marc Stern has been the driving force in bringing many of the world’s most influential artists to Los Angeles. The Sterns have been involved in nearly every aspect of LA Opera, championing more than 15 ambitious projects. Since the establishment of The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund, they have underwritten the performances of major stars, including Plácido Domingo, Susan Graham, Audra McDonald, Renée Fleming, Patti LuPone, Angel Blue, Ana María Martínez, Isabel Leonard, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Rod Gilfry, Janai Brugger and Domingo Hindoyan. The Sterns were also the underwriters for Plácido Domingo’s 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2021, the Sterns established an annual award to celebrate and support extraordinarily gifted artists in opera:
the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award. This award recognizes artists with deep connections to LA Opera and serves as an expression of gratitude for past and future artistic contributions to the company. Marc Stern is Chairman of The TCW Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based asset management firm. He was elected to LA Opera’s board in 1992 and is involved in numerous other philanthropic activities, including serving on the boards of the Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Committee and the California Institute of Technology. He is also a minority owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. Eva Stern is a clinical social worker and philanthropist whose work is guided by a deep commitment to underserved youth and to strengthening connection across an increasingly divided culture. In Southern California, she has focused on expanding opportunity through education, the arts, and mentorship. Her involvement with the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools Foundation grew out of a belief in public education as a powerful equalizer, and in 2006 she helped establish the Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School. She is also a member of The Blue Ribbon. With deepest gratitude, LA Opera acknowledges Mr. and Mrs. Stern for their decades of committed leadership and extraordinary generosity.
Diane and Peter Gray ROWIN PRINS
Special additional support for Joshua Guerrero’s performance in Carmen comes from Diane and Peter Gray. Enthusiastic supporters of Guerrero since 2012, when he joined the DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program, the couple have traveled worldwide to support his illustrious career. Both Diane Joshua Guerrero and Peter have served on LAO’s board of directors: Peter from 2002 for ten years, and Diane since 2011; Diane continues to serve and is a past President of the Opera League of Los Angeles. The Grays also
served as leaders of the Patrons Program for many years. They underwrote LA Opera’s 2007 and 2021 productions of Tannhäuser, were major supporters of the company’s Ring cycle, and are members of the 30th Anniversary Angels. LA Opera is deeply grateful to Diane and Peter Gray for their decades of service and passionate support of LA Opera—and Mr. Guerrero.
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Enrique Martínez Celaya and The Things We Know The curtain that will precede all performances during the 2026/27 season, The Things We Know, is an original painting by Enrique Martínez Celaya, created entirely by hand. Martínez Celaya is an artist who has spent more than three decades working across painting, sculpture, immersive environments, poetry, essays, and fiction. The children, the aquarium, the birdcage, the stars, the flowers, the rise of the curtain itself as it lifts and disappears: these images, and the decision to make the curtain’s movement part of the work, did not arrive as illustrations of an idea the artist already had. They arrived the way his work generally arrives, through a long process of painting, revision, erasure, and reconsideration, in which something is found rather than executed. He does not begin with a specific plan and then execute it. He is after the discovery of something that could not have been planned in advance, and the imagery in the curtain should not be understood as a set of symbols waiting to be decoded, but as the residue of a search. What that search finds, again and again, is a friction between the intimate scale at which we live and a reality that exceeds it. We live at an intimate scale, made of small things: the people and objects we try to protect, the closeness we depend on, the details and events that shape our daily lives. Beyond that intimate scale is a vaster expanse. This movement between the near and the vast is not new to this commission. It runs through Martínez Celaya’s paintings, his sculptures, and his writing, and The Things We Know is his first theater curtain. Here, the physical movement of the curtain, and its eventual disappearance, become part of the work itself. Martínez Celaya describes the rising of the curtain this way: “The movement of the curtain allows these two scales to occupy the same work without resolving them. The domestic scene is not displaced by the larger field beneath it, nor is the field more true simply because it is larger. They belong to one another. The stars are already present on the children before we understand what they are. The darkness is already there beneath the flowers. What changes is not the world itself, but how much of it we are allowed to see.” This approach to the curtain reflects the broader character of Martínez Celaya's practice, which cannot be reduced to a list of disciplines. For him, literature, philosophy, science, memory, and lived experience are
not separate interests that sit alongside his artistic work. They enter the studio, where they are absorbed, tested against the demands of material and form and the realities of lived experience. This is a sustained attentiveness to reality, to how meaning arises, and to how a life might be lived in relation to these questions. His background helps explain the character of that practice. Although he began his artistic apprenticeship at the age of 12, Martínez Celaya later trained as a physicist. He studied at Cornell and UC Berkeley, conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, published scientific papers, and received patents before leaving physics for art. That history is not a biographical curiosity. It remains part of his longstanding interest in different ways of knowing and in a practice that moves between rigor and intuition without treating them as opposites. The scale of that practice is considerable. Martínez Celaya’s work is held in more than 60 public collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, Moderna Museet, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and The Huntington, which holds the largest collection of his work in any public institution. He has undertaken major projects and installations for institutions including the State Hermitage Museum, The Phillips Collection, Berliner Philharmonie, and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and his work has been presented in exhibitions alongside Diego Velázquez, Käthe Kollwitz, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. He is the author of nine books and is Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California, the first person in the university’s history to hold that position. The Things We Know is one work within a larger practice that keeps returning, from different directions, to questions of what we hold close, what we cannot keep, and how the intimate world of a human life belongs to a reality that extends far beyond it. More about the artist at MartinezCelaya.com. Instagram: @studioenriquemartinezcelaya The Things We Know by Enrique Martínez Celaya is generously underwritten by Mei-Lee Ney.
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CANDIDE
Behind the Masterpiece PHOTO BY KEN HOWARD
One of the greatest works in Western literature, Voltaire’s 1759 novel Candide, or Optimism follows its wideeyed hero on a whirlwind tour throughout much of the known world. Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 musical take on Voltaire followed almost as many twists and turns on its journey from Broadway to the opera house.
This is a story rich and rare, of philosophic interplay, ‘twixt optimism and despair by François-Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire. “Voltaire Chorale,” the opening number of Bernstein’s Candide
Who Was Voltaire?
Optimism on Trial
Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), a hero of the French Enlighten ment’s progressive ideals. He was a staggeringly prolific philosopher, playwright, poet, historian and author, who had a knack for making his points in pithy aphorisms (including “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him”). In his novel Candide, he attacked intolerance, corruption and established religion. His writing popularized ideas that had previously been clandestine, spurring public opinion into action and helping to create change throughout Europe.
“Optimism,” as espoused by Dr. Pangloss throughout Candide, doesn’t simply mean looking on the bright side of things. Optimism was a philosophy promoted by, among others, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), who stated that we live in “the best of all possible worlds.” Since the universe was created by a perfect and all-knowing God, he believed, everything in it is rationally ordered according to God’s perfect plan and everything that happens is for the best. Horrified by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which killed tens of thousands of people, Voltaire relentlessly ridiculed this philosophy in Candide.
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Lillian Hellman Playwright Lillian Hellman (19051984), whose most famous stage works included The Children’s Hour and The Little Foxes, was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s for her leftist activism. In 1953, seeing parallels between McCarthyism and the intolerance Voltaire had attacked in Candide, Hellman approached Leonard Bernstein with the idea of adapting the novel into a play. Bernstein agreed to compose incidental music, but became so fascinated by the subject that he persuaded her that it should be a “comic operetta.” Hellman got to work on her script.
Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was a bona fide celebrity by the time he was working on Candide, with a flourishing con ducting career and two Broadway hits under his belt: On the Town and Wonderful Town. He was simultaneously working on West Side Story, which opened a year after Candide. Two numbers originally written for Candide turned up in West Side Story with different lyrics: the duet “One Hand, One Heart” and “Gee, Officer Krupke.” A discarded duet for West Side Story was recycled as Candide’s “Oh, Happy We.”
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The Novel: Candide, or Optimism First published in 1759, Candide was an immediate sensation. Though banned in several countries, 17 editions appeared throughout Europe that year. It has been translated into every major language around the world, has never gone out of print, and remains a much-loved literary landmark of the European Enlightenment. Its tale of a sweet-natured young man enduring an unending series of tragedies is just as engaging, funny and stinging today as it was almost 270 years ago. Candide asks enduring questions: If God is good, why does He allow evil to exist? How can one explain human cruelty or natural disasters?
The Old Lady’s Tango
Barbara Cook as Cunegonde
The Original Cunegonde Barbara Cook had already played four leading roles on Broadway when she auditioned for Candide. She sang a ballad, then Bernstein asked for something with high notes. She offered Cio-Cio-San’s entrance from Madama Butterfly, which she’d only sung in voice lessons. “You have great musical courage,” Bernstein said, impressed. “You mean I’ve got a lot of guts,” replied Cook. She went on to triumph as Marian in The Music Man and Amalia in She Loves Me, cementing her status as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies.
One of the score’s highlights is the rollicking “I Am Easily Assimilated,” in which the Old Lady adapts to whatever life throws at her. Bernstein wrote the lyrics, his Chilean-raised wife Felicia adding the Spanish verses. The reference to Rovno Gubernya salutes his Eastern European family roots, giving this globe-trotting survivor a personal touch. Blending Latin rhythms with klezmer sounds, Bernstein called it a “Jewish tango” and playfully marked his manuscript “moderato hassidicamente.”
Irra Petina as the Old Lady in the original Broadway cast.
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The road to Broadway had plenty of bumps. Hellman and Bernstein enlisted John La Touche as lyricist, but the collaboration proved difficult. They parted ways and poet Richard Wilbur took over. James Agee briefly contrib uted before his sudden death, and Bernstein, Hellman and Dorothy Parker also supplied lyrics. Looking back, Parker offered a sharp verdict: “there were too many geniuses involved.” Even this dream team couldn’t guarantee a lasting popular hit on Broadway. Above: Robert Rounseville as Candide and Barbara Cook as Cunegonde in the original Broadway cast
From Flop to Favorite Bernstein’s brilliant score inspired admirers to resuscitate Candide, but Hellman forbade reuse of her work. For a 1973 revival directed by Hal Prince, Hugh Wheeler devised a new book and Stephen Sondheim added lyrics. This time, Candide worked. Even crusty Walter Kerr reversed his opinion, calling it “an evening of enormous charm.” The production ran on Broadway for nearly two years. Adapted for New York City Opera in 1982, Candide then entered the repertoire of opera houses around the world. PHOTO BY KEN HOWARD
Candide Hits Broadway After a troubled development and hectic Boston tryout, Candide opened on Broadway on December 1, 1956. Lavishly staged by Tyrone Guthrie, it featured a huge cast of 42. Reviews were mixed: critics praised the sparkling score and its stars, but some found Hellman’s book leaden. Influential critic Walter Kerr panned Candide as a “really spectacular disaster.” The show never caught on with audiences and closed after 73 performances.
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Candide at LA Opera in 2017
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UNDERWRITER RECOGNITION
Andrea Pessino LA Opera is honored to thank Andrea Pessino for his underwriting support of this production of Candide. In just a few years, Mr. Pessino has made a profound impact on the company. In 2022, he joined the board of directors and shortly thereafter became a member of the 30th and 40th Anniversary Angels, LA Opera’s premier support circles, demonstrating his deep commitment to the company. He made his underwriting debut in the 2023/24 season, supporting the company’s productions of The Barber of Seville and La Traviata. He went on to underwrite Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto in the 2024/25 season, as well as La Bohème and Falstaff last season. Mr. Pessino is a vice chairman on the board of directors where he serves as chair of the marketing committee. Mr. Pessino co-founded the video game development studio Ready At Dawn® in 2003 and, until 2020, was the company’s chief technical officer, developing technology for all of Ready At Dawn’s games—from Daxter to The
Order: 1886 and Lone Echo. He served as head of research, pursuing special R&D projects, until 2024. From 1998 to 2003, he was a senior software engineer with Blizzard Entertainment®, where he authored core technologies for several blockbusters in the Warcraft® video game franchise. A native of Italy, Mr. Pessino has lived and worked in California since 1990. He is a classically trained musician and an accomplished pianist and composer, having studied composition, harmony and music theory. His orchestration work on the cinematics for Blizzard’s Diablo II® earned him the 2001 IGDA Game Developers Choice Award for “Excellence in Audio.” LA Opera is most grateful to be a beneficiary of Mr. Pessino’s immense generosity and dedication to this beautiful art form.
LA Opera extends its deep gratitude to The Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund for its generous support of Candide. We dedicate this production to the memory of Bernard “Bernie” Greenberg, who passed away earlier this year, leaving an extraordinary legacy of leadership, generosity and devotion to opera. Through their endowment gift establishing this fund, the Greenbergs have made possible many of LA Opera’s most important productions. Their support has helped shape the company since its founding. As underwriters, they were instrumental in bringing Philip Glass’s “portrait trilogy” to Los Angeles: Einstein on the Beach (2013), Akhnaten (2016) and Satyagraha (2018). They also underwrote the 2020 world premiere of Eurydice, along with notable recent productions of Omar, El último sueño de Frida y Diego, Ainadamar and last season’s revival of Akhnaten. Their generosity has been recognized through membership in
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The Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund Domingo’s Angels and the 20th, 25th, 30th and 40th Angels giving programs. In 1960, Bernie was among the earliest advocates for establishing a resident opera company in Los Angeles. A founding board member of LA Opera, he sustained that commitment throughout his life, serving as both president and chairman of the board. In recognition of his extraordinary service, the board elected him Vice Chairman Emeritus and Founding Board Member in 2020. Together, the Greenbergs have contributed enormously to the cultural life of Los Angeles and beyond through their steadfast support of music and the visual arts. Lennie serves as an Honorary Life Director at the LA Philharmonic, where the couple’s shared commitment to commissioning new music has enriched the repertory. LA Opera gratefully acknowledges the Greenbergs' enduring and farsighted generosity, which will bring exceptional opera to our audiences for years to come.
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The Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award leading university in northern Italy. As World War II raged around her, she joined resistance efforts to battle fascism. After the war, she returned to America, furthering her education, marrying, raising a family, building her business and becoming a generous contributor to her community. She believed deeply in the power of education as a principal force for change, says David Shaheen, and through her generosity provided college scholarships for more than 2,000 children of her employees. She passed these ideals on to her son and daughter-in-law, who created The David & Linda Shaheen Foundation, which supports LA Opera’s education programming, scholarships for inner-city youth and numerous arts, education and reproductive health initiatives. Piera’s legacy is also honored through Linda and David Shaheen’s naming of the Alliance Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Health Services Academy. This public high school in South Los Angeles provides a college-preparatory environment where students develop academic and technical skills, along with leadership qualities that prepare them for college, careers and adulthood. The company extends its gratitude to Linda and David Shaheen for honoring such a remarkable woman and for their continued support of the next generation of artists at LA Opera. PHOTO BY CORY WEAVER
Piera Barbaglia Shaheen had a passion for opera and cared deeply about young people beginning their careers. Her generosity of spirit is honored through a fund created by a special gift from Linda and David Shaheen. The Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award supports rising artists at LA Opera, for whom an opportunity to work at a prominent company can be a major career breakthrough. Duke Kim’s highly anticipated return in the title role of Candide is made possible by this award. Previous recipients include Sean Panikkar as Gandhi in Satyagraha, Lisette Oropesa as Eurydice in Orphée et Eurydice, J’Nai Bridges as Nefertiti in Akhnaten, Issachah Savage as Tannhäuser, Rihab Chaieb as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Kaneza Schaal for her direction of Highway 1, USA, Amina Edris as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and John Holiday in the title role of Akhnaten. Named for Mr. Shaheen’s mother, the program carries forward the ideals of a successful woman who was a strong proponent of education, built and ran a multinational business and was the center of a home infused with classical music and opera. Piera was born in America to Italian immigrants. Due to widespread discrimination against foreigners, her mother moved the family back to Italy when Piera was only two years old. Inspired by her mother’s strong work ethic and commitment to education, she earned a degree in economics from a
Duke Kim (right) as Tony with Gabriella Reyes as Maria in LA Opera’s 2025 production of West Side Story.
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COLBUR N Frank Gehry’s Latest Masterpiece Opening Fall 2027
Terri & Jerry Kohl Hall
Colburn’s New Dance Center
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2026/27 SEASON LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl
Carmen
GEORGES BIZET
Turandot
GIACOMO PUCCINI
October 17 – November 7, 2026
April 17 – May 9, 2027
Production made possible by generous support from the Joan H. Hotchkis Fund, in honor of Joan and John Hotchkis; Terri and Jerry Kohl; Linda and Alvaro Pascotto; Keith R. Leonard, Jr.; Alfred E. Mann Charities; The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc.; The Blue Ribbon; and The Domingo Hindoyan Music Director Circle, an affiliate of the Producing Partners Consortium. Rihab Chaieb’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund. Special additional support for Joshua Guerrero’s performance provided by Diane and Peter Gray. Additional support for the performers from the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus made possible by Helen Bing.
Production made possible by generous support from Margo Leavin and Alfred E. Mann Charities. Special additional support from The Family of Ginger Conrad.
Hercules vs Vampires
The Three Women of Jerusalem
PATRICK MORGANELLI
October 30 – 31, 2026, 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.
Jamie Barton in Recital
Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee: Golden Age April 22, 2027, at The Wallis
CARLA LUCERO
May 1, 2027, 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 the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. Piano graciously provided by Yamaha, the official piano of LA Opera.
November 15, 2026, at The Wallis
Sondra Radvanovsky in Recital Candide
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
November 21 – December 13, 2026 Production made possible by generous support from The Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund, Andrea Pessino, and Ceil and Michael Pulitzer. Duke Kim’s performance is generously underwritten by a gift from the Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award. This production is dedicated to the memory of LA Opera Founding Board Member Bernard A. Greenberg.
Nabucco
GIUSEPPE VERDI
February 27 – March 21, 2027 Production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation, Regina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten; Colburn Foundation; Andrea Pessino; Barbara Augusta Teichert; The Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund; and The Domingo Hindoyan Music Director Circle, an affiliate of the Producing Partners Consortium. Special additional support from the Armenian Consortium and Laura and Carlton Seaver. Original production made possible by generous support from Barbara Augusta Teichert and Marilyn Ziering, with special additional support provided by The Seaver Endowment.
Les Talens Lyriques: Two Venetians in Naples
May 8, 2027, at The Wallis Sondra Radvanovsky’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund.
The Old Man and the Sea
PAOLA PRESTINI
May 20 – 23, 2027, 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.
The Marriage of Figaro
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
May 29 – June 20, 2027 Production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation, Regina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten; Colburn Foundation; The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas; and Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn). Original production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg, Regina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas, Nanette and Keith Leonard, Ariane and Lionel Sauvage, and the Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund.
March 2, 2027, at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall Presentation made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation, Regina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Additional underwriting support provided by Mr. Robert Finnerty and Mr. Richard Cullen.
The Things We Know by Enrique Martínez Celaya is generously underwritten by Mei-Lee Ney.
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MARC STERN, CHAIR KEITH LEONARD, CHAIR
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 Regina 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 Keith R. Leonard, Jr. Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco Linda and Alvaro Pascotto Andrea Pessino Ronus Foundation David and Linda Shaheen Eugene and Marilyn Stein Barbara Augusta Teichert The Ahmanson Foundation 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 The Rafael and Luisa De Marchena-Huyke Foundation Dan Murphy Foundation Chris and Dick Newman Suzanne and Fred Rheinstein The Seaver Family Richard Shank Trust Alyce de Roulet Williamson Marilyn Ziering Ann Ziff P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
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PROGRAM
CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH, SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO DOMINGO HINDOYAN, RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS
Candide THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE VERSION
Music by Leonard Bernstein Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, in a new version by John Caird Lyrics by Richard Wilbur Additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein CREATIVE TEAM
PRINCIPAL CAST (in order of appearance)
CONDUCTOR
VOLTAIRE/PANGLOSS
Lina González-Granados DIRECTOR
Francesca Zambello ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER
Eric Sean Fogel
SCENIC DESIGNER
James Noone
COSTUME DESIGNER
CANDIDE MAXIMILIAN CUNEGONDE PAQUETTE BARON / DON ISSACHAR / GOVERNOR BARONESS / VANDERDENDUR JAMES THE ANABAPTIST / MARTIN THE OLD LADY
Jennifer Moeller
CACAMBO
ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER
PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
Mark McCullough REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER
A.J. Guban
CHORUS DIRECTOR
Jeremy Frank
SOUND DESIGNER
Andrew Harper
Scott Bakula* Duke Kim Mario Manzo † Meghan Picerno* Kristen Choi Bernard Holcomb* Katie Trigg † Vinícius Costa † Patti LuPone Samuel Wallace †
Erin Alford, Andrea Beasom, Julia Harnett, Jawan Jenkins*, Joanna Kim*, Nicholas LaGesse*, Gibran Mahmud*, Madison Manning*, Peter Murphy, Elliot Peterson*, David Prottas, Alicia Russell Tagert* SUPPORT Production made possible by generous support from
STAGE MANAGER
The Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund Andrea Pessino Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Duke Kim’s performance is generously underwritten by a gift from the
INTIMACY DIRECTOR
Sasha Smith
Whitney McAnally Eboni Adams
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER
Andrea Beasom MUSICAL PREPARATION
Julian Garvue ‡ Peter Walsh ‡ Muse Ye †
Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by
Terri and Jerry Kohl
This production is dedicated to the memory of
PRODUCTION NOTES The running time is approximately two hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. This production uses theatrical fog and strobe lighting. Projected titles design by Kelley Rourke originally for The Glimmerglass Festival. Pre-performance talks by Dr. Kristi BrownMontesano. Pre-performance talks are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles. By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner. This production of Candide is a co-production of The Glimmerglass Festival, Opéra National de Bordeaux and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. Additional costumes constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Wig & Make-Up Department. * LA Opera debut † Member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program ‡ Alumnus of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Please refrain from talking during the perfor mance, and turn off all cell phones, electronic devices and watch alarms. Assistive hearing devices should be set to an appropriate level to avoid distracting audio feedback. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of house man agement. Audience members who leave during the performance will not be readmitted until the next intermission. Cameras and recording equipment are strictly prohibited. Use of a ticket acknowledges your willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Music Center and releases the Center, its lessees and others from liability resulting from their use.
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SYNOPSIS
courtesy of the Glimmerglass Festival
MUSICAL SELECTIONS
ACT ONE
ACT ONE
Candide, a youth of obscure origins, lives with the Baron and Baroness of Westphalia and their two children, Maximilian and Cunegonde. When Candide—inspired by the coupling of his tutor Pangloss and Paquette, a servant girl—proposes to marry Cunegonde, he is kicked out of the castle and tricked into joining the Bavarian Army. After a bloody battle between Bavaria and Westphalia, he travels to Holland, where he reunites with Pangloss and learns that the Baron, Baroness and Cunegonde have been killed. In reality, Cunegonde has survived and is now the mistress of two men in Lisbon: Don Issachar and the Grand Inquisitor. Pangloss and Candide travel to Lisbon, arriving just as a terrible earthquake strikes the city. As they philosophize about the disaster, they are overheard and arrested for blasphemy. Pangloss is sentenced to death, Candide to flogging. The Old Lady takes Candide away and orchestrates a reunion between him and Cunegonde. When Don Issachar surprises the lovers, Candide kills him; the Grand Inquisitor soon suffers the same fate. Candide, Cunegonde and the Old Lady flee to Spain, where they meet a resourceful fellow named Cacambo, who proposes a journey to the New World.
Overture
ACT TWO
Entr’acte
Voltaire Chorale
Ensemble
Life is Happiness Indeed
Candide, Maximilian, Cunegonde, Paquette
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Pangloss, Cunegonde, Paquette, Candide, Maximilian
Oh, Happy We
Candide, Cunegonde
It Must Be So
Candide
Candide’s Lament
Candide
Dear Boy
Pangloss, Ensemble
Glitter and Be Gay
Cunegonde
Auto-da-fé
Candide, Pangloss, Inquisitors, Ensemble
You Were Dead, You Know
Candide, Cunegonde
I Am Easily Assimilated
Old Lady, Señores, Ensemble
Quartet Finale
Candide, Cunegonde, Old Lady, Cacambo
ACT TWO
In Montevideo, the Governor takes an interest in Cunegonde. Candide and Cacambo travel to Paraguay, where Candide is reunited with Maximilian, who has joined a Jesuit order. When Maximilian objects to Candide’s proposed marriage to Cunegonde, Candide kills him. Candide and Cacambo flee to El Dorado, the legendary land of gold, where they lack for nothing—except Cunegonde. Determined to find her, they set off again. Cacambo sails for Montevideo to retrieve Cunegonde; the two friends plan to meet in Venice. Vanderdendur, a slave trader, agrees to take Candide to Venice but robs him instead. Candide chooses a new traveling companion: Martin, a cynical philosopher. On a Tunisian galley, Candide and Martin encounter Pangloss and Maximilian—alive but enslaved—and buy their freedom. In Venice, they are reunited with Paquette, then Cacambo. At a masquerade ball, the Old Lady and Cunegonde approach Candide, looking for money. When Cunegonde’s mask comes off, Candide is startled by what she has become. Wiser for his experiences, Candide leads his companions away from Venice to settle in the countryside, where they find useful work.
My Love
Governor and Cunegonde
Alleluia
Maximilian, Ensemble
Ballad of El Dorado
King of El Dorado, Candide, Cacambo, Ensemble
Departure from Eldorado
Candide, Cacambo, King and Queen of El Dorado, Ensemble
Bon Voyage
Vanderdendur, Ensemble
It Must Be So
Candide
Words, Words, Words
Martin
What’s the Use?
Pangloss, Cacambo, Paquette, Old Lady, Maximilian, Martin, Ensemble
Money, Money, Money
Ensemble
Venice Gavotte
Old Lady, Candide, Cunegonde, Pangloss
Nothing More Than This
Candide
Universal Good
Ensemble
In fond memory of Tara Colburn, supertitles are underwritten by Dunard Fund.
Make Our Garden Grow
Candide, Cunegonde, Company
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A NOTE FROM DIRECTOR FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO How do we come to grips with a world that allows for natural disaster, state-sanctioned injustice, genocide, disease, human trafficking, witch hunts, and all the other bad things that happen to good people? The problem of evil is at the heart of Voltaire’s satirical novella and the musical it inspired. The absurd plot twists and dizzying pace of Voltaire’s storytelling, in combination with Bernstein’s sparkling score, invite us to consider the human condition, but don’t give us time to get too depressed about it. As we follow Candide on his whirlwind tour of the Old and New Worlds, we see a lot of problems, and we meet a lot of people who have developed some kind of philosophical system that claims to make sense of a flawed universe. But Panglossian optimism is quickly shown to be
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ridiculous, and Martin’s pessimistic view of the world isn’t allowed to stand unchallenged, either. So what is the answer? Why does evil exist? Why do people suffer? At the end of the story, Candide hasn’t come any closer to drawing a satisfactory conclusion, and neither have his companions (with the exception of Pangloss, who stubbornly clings to optimism). Candide can’t explain the world, so he turns his attention to what he can do—and encourages his friends to do the same. Today, in our hyperconnected world, we’re more aware than ever of human suffering, and we have plenty of platforms for philosophizing about it. The question is, what are we going to do? What is the garden that each of us will cultivate? Candide challenges us to get to work.
generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl
ADDITIONAL ROLES
FIRST VIOLIN
CELLO
TRUMPET
Erin Alford
NURSE, SHEEP
Alyssa Park
Rowena Hammill
Ryan Darke
Julia Harnett
BAVARIAN CORPORAL, LISBON CITIZEN
Jawan Jenkins
FIRST INQUISITION AGENT
Joanna Kim
SHEEP
Nicholas LaGesse
BAVARIAN CAPTAIN, SECOND INQUISITION
STUART CANIN CONCERTMA STER
Armen Anassian
A SSOCIATE CONCERTMA STER
Lisa Sutton
A SSISTANT CONCERTMA STER
Olivia Tsui Lucinda Chiu Heather Powell Adam Millstein Neel Hammond Mona Tian Myroslava Khomik
SECOND VIOLIN Ana Landauer PRINCIPAL
Loránd Lokuszta
A SSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Florence Titmus Leslie Katz Cynthia Moussas Ina Veli Irina Voloshina Elizabeth Hedman
VIOLA Erik Rynearson PRINCIPAL
Evan Antes
A SSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Karie Prescott Shawn Mann Jing Peng Kate Vincent
PRINCIPAL
Dane Little
A SSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Michael Kaufman Helen Altenbach Nadine Hall
BASS
PRINCIPAL
flugelhorn, cornet David Washburn
A SSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
TROMBONE William Booth Alvin Veeh, bass trombone
Evan Hillis
TUBA
PRINCIPAL
A SSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Frances Liu Wu
Gibran Mahmud
GRAND INQUISITOR, KING OF EL DORADO
Peter Murphy
LISBON SAILOR
Elliot Peterson
KING OF BAVARIA, LISBON CITIZEN
PRINCIPAL
David Prottas
HOLLAND MINISTER, LISBON CITIZEN
TIMPANI
Alicia Russell Tagert
MINISTER’S WIFE, QUEEN OF EL DORADO
Samuel Wallace
SEÑOR
Doug Tornquist PRINCIPAL
FLUTE
HARP
Heather Clark
JoAnn Turovsky
PRINCIPAL
Angela Weigand, piccolo
OBOE Jennifer Cullinan PRINCIPAL
English horn
CLARINET Donald Foster PRINCIPAL
E-flat clarinet
Gregory Goodall PRINCIPAL
PERCUSSION Theresa Dimond PRINCIPAL
John Wakefield Mark Converse, drumset MUSIC LIBRARIAN
Laura Stoutenborough, bass clarinet
Melisandra Dunker
BASSOON
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER
William May
Brady Steel
PRINCIPAL
HORN Steven Becknell, PRINCIPAL
Daniel Kelley
AGENT, SEÑOR, GALLEY CAPTAIN
PRINCIPAL
Nathan Farrington
Stuart Canin Concertmaster Chair made possible by a deeply appreciated gift from Dunard Fund.
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ALTO
Christina Borgioli* Ayana Haviv Stephanie Jones
Elizabeth Anderson Danielle Marcelle Bond Sara Campbell*
TENOR
BASS
Omar Crook* Francis Lucaric** Todd Strange*
Abdiel González* Steve Pence* James Martin Schaefer*
* Has appeared in 50 or more productions ** Has appeared in 100 or more productions
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MEET THE ARTISTS
DIRECTOR
From: Cali, Colombia. LA Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (2022); The Rape of Lucretia, El último sueño de Frida y Diego (2023); Fire and Blue Sky, Dracula, Roméo et Juliette (2024); Angel Blue in Concert (2025); La Bohème (2025). Upcoming: Las tres mujeres de Jerusalén. Resident Conductor since 2022. About: Winner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, she served as Solti Conducting Apprentice under Riccardo Muti (2020–23) and worked with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Philadelphia Orchestra (2019–22). Her 2026/27 engagements include debuts with Opernhaus Zürich, Istanbul State Orchestra, Franz Schubert Philharmonia, Orquesta Comunidad de Madrid, and Calgary Philharmonic; The Cook-Off at Indiana University and Eurydice at Rice University; and returns to the San Francisco Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and LA Chamber Orchestra. (LinaGonzalezGranados.com)
From: New York City. LA Opera: The Trojans (1991), Florencia en el Amazonas (1997, 2014), Billy Budd (2000, 2014), Porgy and Bess (2007), Candide (2018), Aida (2022), West Side Story (2025). About: Francesca Zambello has been Artistic Director of Washington National Opera since 2013 and is Artistic & General Director of the Glimmerglass Festival, Emerita. She has staged productions on Broadway, the West End, and at major opera houses and theaters throughout the world. She is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and a Knight with the Order of the Star of Italy. Other honors include Olivier Awards, Evening Standard Awards, the French Grand Prix des Critiques, the Russian Federation’s Arts Medal, induction into the OPERA America Hall of Fame, and San Francisco Opera's Medallion Society Award, recognizing her 30 years with the company, including directing its Ring cycle twice.
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Francesca Zambello
CONDUCTOR PHOTO BY TODD ROSENBERG
Lina González-Granados
Eric Sean Fogel
James Noone
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER
SCENIC DESIGNER
From: Charleston, South Carolina. LA Opera: choreographer of Florencia en el Amazonas (2014) and Candide (2018); associate director of West Side Story (2025). About: An artistic associate at the Glimmerglass Festival, he has spent 16 seasons as head of stage movement and choreography, contributing to more than 30 productions. He directed The Rake’s Progress there in 2025 and returns to direct Into the Woods in 2027. At the Metropolitan Opera, he has been revival director for Norma and The Magic Flute. A longtime collaborator of Francesca Zambello, his Washington National Opera credits include Porgy and Bess, Songbird, Samson et Dalila, Don Giovanni and Candide. He was an associate on Broadway’s Everyday Rapture. His 2027 engagements also include associate directing and choreographing Show Boat at Houston Grand Opera and serving as assistant director for Macbeth and Silent Night at the Metropolitan Opera. (EricSeanFogel.com)
From: Glens Falls, New York. LA Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (2003, debut); Candide (2018). About: Broadway scenic designs include this year’s Beaches as well as Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, A Time to Kill, A Bronx Tale, Jekyll & Hyde and The Gin Game. His Off-Broadway credits include productions at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons. Opera designs have been seen at the Glimmerglass Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera and English National Opera. His work for television includes filmed productions of Sweeney Todd, Company and Candide for PBS, and HBO’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. An associate professor of scenic design at Boston University, he has received a Drama Desk Award, an American Theatre Wing Design Award, two Helen Hayes Awards and an Ovation Award.
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Jennifer Moeller
Mark McCullough
COSTUME DESIGNER
ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER
From: New York City. LA Opera: Candide (2018). About: A two-time Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner, her Broadway costume designs include All Out: Comedy About Ambition, All In: Comedy About Love, McNeal, Camelot, Pictures From Home, Clyde’s and Sweat. Her upcoming projects include Dolly: A True Original Musical, opening on Broadway in 2027. Off-Broadway credits include Bat Boy: The Musical, The Apiary, The Comeuppance, Mlima’s Tale and Tiny Beautiful Things. Her regional theater work includes Love’s Labour’s Lost for Shakespeare in the Park, The Last Goodbye at the Old Globe and The Winter’s Tale at Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as productions at the Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She also designed costumes for the Apple TV+ series Dickinson. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
From: Charlotte, North Carolina. LA Opera: Porgy and Bess (2007, debut), Lohengrin (2010), Rigoletto (2010), Florencia en el Amazonas (2014), Nabucco (2017), Candide (2018), West Side Story (2025). About: The late lighting designer (1963–2025) worked with many of the world’s leading opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Bolshoi Theatre, Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Seattle Opera. His Broadway credits included Outside Mullingar, After Miss Julie, The American Plan, Jesus Christ Superstar and How I Learned to Drive. His opera designs included the Ring cycle at San Francisco Opera, Der Freischütz at Vienna State Opera, La Traviata at Seattle Opera and Elektra at Washington National Opera. He worked extensively with director Francesca Zambello, creating lighting for productions across the United States and internationally.
A.J. Guban
Jeremy Frank
REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER
CHORUS DIRECTOR
From: Mogadore, Ohio. LA Opera: West Side Story (2025, debut). About: The longtime lighting director at Washington National Opera, he has designed more than 40 productions there, including six world premieres: An American Soldier, Penny, Better Gods, The Dictator’s Wife, Proving Up and Taking Up Serpents. His lighting designs and revivals have been seen at Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Detroit Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Opera Cleveland, New Orleans Opera, Opera Lafayette and Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. His 2027 engagements include the world premiere of O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky at Washington National Opera and revival lighting for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at San Francisco Opera. A recipient of eight Helen Hayes Award nominations, he also won a BroadwayWorld award for his scenic design of Godspell! at Flint Repertory Theatre. (AJGuban.com)
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, Philippe 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. His artistic partners have included 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)
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Scott Bakula
SOUND DESIGNER
VOLTAIRE / DR. PANGLOSS
From: Houston, Texas. LA Opera: West Side Story (2025, debut). About: A sound designer specializing in musical theater and opera, he regularly designs for Houston Grand Opera (16 productions, including five world premieres), Washington National Opera, and Theatre Under the Stars (more than 50 productions). He has also designed for New York City Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Atlanta Opera, among others. His recent credits include Silent Night, Porgy and Bess, and The Sound of Music at Houston Grand Opera; West Side Story and Madama Butterfly at Washington National Opera; and Guys and Dolls at Shakespeare Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award nomination). Upcoming productions include O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky (world premiere) and Idomeneo at Washington National Opera, and Show Boat at Houston Grand Opera. (AndrewHarperSound.com)
From: St. Louis, Missouri. LA Opera: debut. About: A Golden Globe winner and five-time Emmy nominee, he is best known for starring in Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise and NCIS: New Orleans. He made his Broadway debut in Marilyn: An American Fable (1983) and received a Tony Award nomination for Romance/Romance (1988). Stage credits include The Baker’s Wife with Ariana DeBose and The Connector OffBroadway, Man of La Mancha opposite his wife Chelsea Field (Peterborough Players), Mr. Lincoln (Ford’s Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Hollywood Bowl) and Anyone Can Whistle (Carnegie Hall). Television credits include Men of a Certain Age, Looking, Only Murders in the Building and Behind the Candelabra, for which he received his fifth Emmy nomination. He will appear opposite Michelle Monaghan in the upcoming Netflix series The Sticks. Films include American Beauty, The Informant! and Necessary Roughness.
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Andrew Harper
Patti LuPone
INTIMACY DIRECTOR
OLD LADY
From: Chicago, Illinois. LA Opera: Akhnaten (2025, debut), Carmen (2026). About: Sasha is an LA-based intimacy and fight choreographer. Her theater work includes Amadeus, Topdog/Underdog, Eureka Day (Pasadena Playhouse), The Lonely Few, Fat Ham, The Engagement Party, The Mountaintop, The First Deep Breath (Geffen Playhouse), American Idiot, Fake It Til You Make It, JaJa’s African Hair Braiding (CTG), The Piano Lesson, A Man of No Importance, One Man Two Guvnors (A Noise Within), The Notebook (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Ms. Blakk For President, Familiar (Steppenwolf), How to Catch Creation (Goodman), A Raisin in the Sun (Guthrie), The Bluest Eye (Virginia Stage Company). Film and television credits include The Burbs, Rooster, Forever, The Residence, Beef, Daisy Jones & The Six, Swarm, Tiny Beautiful Things, How I Met Your Father and Random Acts of Flyness, among others.
From: Northport, New York. LA Opera: Leocadia Begbick in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2007, debut); Samira in The Ghosts of Versailles (2015); A Life in Notes (2024); Matters of the Heart (2026). About: A three-time Tony winner and two-time Grammy winner, she originated the title role in Evita on Broadway and won additional Tonys for Gypsy and Company. Her many Broadway credits include The Roommate, War Paint, Sweeney Todd, and Anything Goes. She won Olivier Awards for her performances in Les Misérables, The Cradle Will Rock, and Company. Her opera credits include To Hell and Back with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Regina at the Kennedy Center. Recent screen appearances include Agatha All Along, Beau Is Afraid, and Palm Royale. A founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company, she is the author of the bestselling Patti LuPone: A Memoir. (PattiLuPone.net)
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Sasha Smith
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Kristen Choi
CANDIDE
PAQUETTE
From: Seoul, South Korea. LA Opera: Roméo in Roméo et Juliette (2024, debut); Tony in West Side Story (2025). He is a 2026 recipient of the Stern Artist Award. About: Tenor Duke Kim is a grand finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2021) and a second-prize winner of Operalia (2022). A graduate of Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute (2024). This season’s appearances include Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Met, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki, Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia at Opéra National de Lyon and Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore at Canadian Opera Company. Recent engagements include Roméo in Roméo et Juliette in Dresden and Rome and Mozart’s Requiem at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. (DukeKimTenor.com)
Meghan Picerno CUNEGONDE
From: Chicago, Illinois. LA Opera: debut. About: Internationally acclaimed opera and Broadway star Meghan Picerno, hailed by The New York Times as “dazzling,” has estab lished a legacy as Cunegonde in Candide, performing in numerous productions, including under the direction of the legendary Hal Prince. Handpicked by Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber, she starred as Christine Daaé in Broadway’s historic reopening of The Phantom of the Opera, following its world tour and her creation of the role of Christine in the U.S. premiere of Love Never Dies. Her repertoire includes Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Maria (West Side Story), Eliza (My Fair Lady), Adele (Die Fledermaus), and Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann). Her credits span Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Gran Teatre del Liceu, San Francisco Symphony, and stages in Europe, Asia, and South America. Instagram: @meghanpicerno
From: Torrance, California. LA Opera: Sotopenre in Akhnaten (2026, debut). About: The mezzo sang Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Washington National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Virginia Opera and Detroit Opera, with Knoxville Opera upcoming. She performed Paquette at Glimmerglass and in Toulouse and Bordeaux. Other credits: Bloody Mary in South Pacific (Dayton Performing Arts Alliance), Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Virginia Opera), Mercédès in Carmen (Dallas Opera) and Rosette (cover, upcoming) in Manon (Metropolitan Opera). She created the title role in Murasaki’s Moon (On Site Opera and Metropolitan Museum of Art) and toured in Lincoln Center’s The King and I. (KristenChoi.com) PHOTO BY CHELSEA LAUREN
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Duke Kim
Vinícius Costa JAMES / MARTIN
From: São Paulo, Brazil. LA Opera: A member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, his many roles include Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette (2024), Aye in Akhnaten (2026), Pistol in Falstaff (2026), Zuniga in Carmen (2026) and the Mandarin in Turandot (2027). About: In June, the bass performed Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. He appears on a recording of André Mehmari’s opera O Machete. As a Renée Fleming Fellow at Aspen Opera Theater, he performed Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro and participated in the Renée Fleming Song Studio at Carnegie Hall. He has also performed with Theater Basel and Bühne Bern in Switzerland.
Bernard Holcomb BARON / DON ISSACHAR / GOVERNOR
From: Detroit, Michigan. LA Opera: debut. About: The tenor made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Champion and returned for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, and Salome. Highlights of his 2026/27 season include his Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut in Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass, the title role in The Pigeon Keeper with Opera Omaha, and Macduff in Macbeth with Eugene Opera. Other engagements include Alfredo in La Traviata and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto with Eugene Opera, and Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd with Pacific Symphony. He is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago. (BernardHolcomb.com)
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Mario Manzo
Erin Alford
MAXIMILIAN
PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
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From: Phoenix, Arizona. LA Opera: Le Dancaïre in Carmen (2026, debut). He will return as the High Priest in Nabucco (2027) and Ping in Turandot (2027). He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program this season. About: Last season, the baritone returned to Palm Beach Opera as a Henry and Marsha Laufer Young Artist, performing Schaunard in La Bohème and Count Monterone in Rigoletto, and covering Zurga in The Pearl Fishers. At Wolf Trap Opera, he performed Wagner in Faust and covered the title role in Don Giovanni. A graduate of Arizona State University, he earned his master’s degree at Rice University, where he performed the title role in Don Giovanni.
Katie Trigg BARONESS / VANDERDENDUR
From: Ngāhinapōuri, New Zealand. LA Opera: Maketaten in Akhnaten (2026, debut); Second Lady in The Magic Flute (2026); Mercédès in Carmen (2026). She joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program in 2025. About: In July, the mezzo-soprano performed Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the Auckland Philharmonia, where she previously appeared as Flora in La Traviata. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, performing Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. She was a Studio Artist with New Zealand Opera and Wolf Trap Opera. Concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem for Auckland Choral and C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat for Bach Musica NZ. (KatieTrigg.nz)
Samuel Wallace CACAMBO
From: Serra, Espírito Santo, Brazil. LA Opera: Le Remendado in Carmen (2026, debut). He will return as Abdallo in Nabucco (2027) and Don Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro (2027). He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program this season. About: Last season, the tenor sang in Arabella, Un Ballo in Maschera and Manon at Opernhaus Zürich as a member of the Internationales Opernstudio. Earlier this year, he joined the NOVUM training program at Houston Grand Opera. He created the title role in the world premiere of Serafim e o lugar onde não se morre by Brazilian composer Guilherme Bernstein. He has also performed at the Philharmonie de Paris.
From: Long Beach, CA. LA Opera: Neferneferuaten in Akhnaten (2026, principal debut). About: The mezzosoprano has recently performed Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Glimmerglass), Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (Pensacola Opera), Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Opera Italia), Agata in Don Bucefalo (Pacific Opera Project), and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Carnegie Hall). (ErinAlford.com)
Andrea Beasom PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
From: Los Angeles, CA. LA Opera: Lolo in The Merry Widow (2007, debut); principal ensemble in Candide (2018); dancer and choreographer in The Anonymous Lover (2020). About: A director, choreographer, singer and dancer, she has worked on productions across America, both onstage and off, with Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Atlanta Opera and Glimmerglass. (AndreaBeasom.com)
Julia Harnett PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
From: New York City. LA Opera: Consuelo in West Side Story (2025, debut). About: An actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer, her stage credits include Guys and Dolls (Kennedy Center), Chicago (Fulton Theatre) and Cabaret (Barrington Stage Company). Her screen credits also include appearances in the television series Schmigadoon!, Billions, Scrubs, Power, and the film In the Heights. (@juliaharnett)
Jawan Jenkins PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
From: New York City. LA Opera: debut. About: Recent roles include La Bête in La Belle et la Bête (Vegas City Opera), King Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera Las Vegas) and Action in West Side Story (Opera San José). A former member of the Boys Choir of Harlem and a Glimmerglass Young Artist, he holds degrees from Prairie View A&M and UT Austin and is assistant professor of voice at UNLV.
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Joanna Kim
Peter Murphy
PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
PRINCIPAL ENSEMBLE
From: Los Angeles, CA. LA Opera: debut. About: The coloratura soprano recently performed Cunegonde in Candide and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica (Opera in the Ozarks). Her Opera North roles include Cinderella in Into the Woods. Upcoming engagements include Loretta in Doctor Miracle (El Paso Opera) and La Rondine (Pacific Opera Project). (JoannaKimOfficial.com)
From: Lowell, MA. LA Opera: A-Rab / Jet Swing in West Side Story (2025, debut). About: He recently performed Will Parker in Oklahoma! as a 2026 Resident Artist at Glimmerglass, as well as Snowboy in West Side Story (Washington National Opera) and Piano Men (Palace Theatre, NH). BFA in Musical Theatre, Ithaca College. (PeterMurphy5.com)
Nicholas LaGesse
Elliot Peterson
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From: Oxford, OH. LA Opera: debut. About: The baritone appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Olufemi and other roles in Omar and with Washington National Opera as Parson Alltalk in Treemonisha and both Jake and Jim in Porgy and Bess. Other credits include Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette (Boston Lyric Opera) and Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos (Pacific Opera Project). (NicholasLaGesse.com)
From: Billings, MT. LA Opera: debut. About: He recently portrayed Harry Houdini in Ragtime (Opera Montana). A former Young Artist at Glimmerglass, his credits include The Flying Dutchman (Virginia Opera), White Christmas (Arvada Center), Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises (Broward Stage Door), Ned in School of Rock (Tuacahn Amphitheatre) and Elf: The Musical (national tour).
Gibran Mahmud
David Prottas
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From: Denver, CO. LA Opera: debut. About: Tenor Gibran Mahmud has sung with Long Beach Opera, Toledo Opera, Cincinnati Opera and Dayton Opera and with the LAO Chorus in Carmen (2017). A USC Thornton alumnus, he performs as drag persona Gila Moonstar and has appeared on NBC’s Weakest Link and aboard Virgin Voyages cruises. (GilaMoonstar.com)
From: Boston, MA. LA Opera: Action in West Side Story (2025). About: He graduated from Canada’s National Ballet School (Ondaatje Ballet Prize), then spent 10 years at New York City Ballet before his Broadway debut in Carousel. Credits: An American in Paris (1st natl. tour), Fiddler on the Roof (La Mirada), Marie: Dancing Still (5th Ave, dir. Susan Stroman), The Soldier’s Tale (Seattle Opera).
Madison Manning
Alicia Russell Tagert
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From: Denver, CO. LA Opera: debut. About: In July, she choreographed Così fan tutte at Glimmerglass, where she danced Dream Ballet Laurey and was dance captain for Oklahoma! Other credits: Cinderella in Cinderella: Enchanted Edition (Syracuse Stage) and Mrs. Potiphar in Joseph... (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). (MadisonMManning.com)
From: Asheville, NC. LA Opera: debut. About: The soprano performed Nettie in Carousel (REV Theatre) and Musetta in La Bohème (Toledo Opera) and created Rafaela in the world premiere of The House on Mango Street (Glimmerglass Festival). At Virginia Opera, she sang the Forest Bird in Siegfried and stepped in as Brünnhilde on five hours’ notice. (AliciaRussellSoprano.com)
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PRODUCTION STAFF A SSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
Azra King-Abadi
WARDROBE
VARI-LITE AUTOMATED LIGHTING PROVIDED BY
Lee Smilek
Vari-Lite Inc.
Linda Zoolalian
HE AD OF WARDROBE
A SSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
Mary Basile Charlyn Trenier
THE DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM
SUPERTITLE PREPAR ATION / CUER
Danielle Brewbaker Holden Fox Lisa Kable-Blanchard DICTION COACH
Jocelyn Dueck Sound effect design by Joel Morain originally for The Glimmerglass Festival.
COSTUME SHOP Lindsey Ellison Aries Limon Robbie Monsod* JoEllen Skinner* Clara Weidman CUT TER/DR APERS
Alexandra Babec Adle Smithson Haley Williams FIRST HANDS
Stephanie Castro Corey Cochran Nasira Elias Alex de la Huerta Melissa Meza Blanca Miranda*** Carmen Muñoz Olivia Schlueter-Corey Arielle Walker Anna Wong** SE AMSTERS
Wing Cheung** MA STER TAILOR
Rafael Avila** Manuel Medina** Kelvin Small, Jr. TAILOR
Dahlia Gonzalez
HE AD CR AF TSPERSON
Tessa Barlotta Nicholas Uccan
WARDROBE A SSISTANTS
Samantha Corn Charlie Fleiss Shelley Graves-Jimenez Mary Lehman Glen Moore Julie Schafer SE A SONAL DRESSERS
WIGS AND MAKE-UP Maggie Clark WIGMA STER
Kelso Millett
A SSOCIATE WIGMA STER
Brandi Strona
DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR & CREW FOREMAN
Nathalie Eidt Nicole Rodrigues
SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTISTS
Delaney Doherty
WIG & MAKE-UP ARTIST
Karina Moreno LE AD ST YLIST
STAGE CREW Scott Papez
Robert Colby Klein
OPER A HE AD ELECTRICIAN
David Salas
OPER A A SSISTANT CARPENTER
Alerton Perez
OPER A A SSISTANT ELECTRICIAN
Scott Shepherd
OPER A HE AD OF PROPERTIES
Heather Orozco
OPER A HE AD AUDIO
Kelly Richard Travis
Emily Frank Miranda Orellana
Brad Cobb
Rhiannon Smith
SENIOR COSTUME A SSISTANT
Jacqueline Colindres Paz Emma Van Horn COSTUME A SSISTANTS
Manuel Garcia**
WAREHOUSE MANAGER
John Musselman**
ADMINISTR ATIVE A SSISTANT
Matthew Adkins Gwyneva Rosales Alexis Sarabia
PRODUCTION A SSISTANTS
OPER A HE AD VIDEO
OPER A AUDIO ENGINEER
DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION HOUSE STAFF Timothy L. Conroy
HOUSE HE AD CARPENTER
Mathew Berger
HOUSE HE AD ELECTRICIAN
Scott Shepherd
HOUSE HE AD OF PROPERTIES
Heather Orozco
HOUSE HE AD AUDIO
Robert Devis
HOUSE MANAGER
* 10+ years of service ** 20+ years of service *** 30+ years of service
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.
OPER A HE AD CARPENTER
CR AF TSPERSONS
PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS
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.
Demetra Willis HE AD USHER
Carolyn Van Brunt
VICE PRESIDENT OF GUEST SERVICES
2026/27 PARTICIPANTS
Vinícius Costa
Gabrielle Turgeon
Mario Manzo
Samuel Wallace
Alexis Seminario
Muse Ye
Katie Trigg
Gabrielė Žemaitytė
BA SS
BARITONE SOPR ANO
MEZZO-SOPR ANO
SOPR ANO TENOR
PIANIST PIANIST
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, 2026. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Los Angeles Opera.
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LA OPERA Christopher Koelsch
SEBA STIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO
Domingo Hindoyan
RICHARD SE AVER MUSIC DIRECTOR
John P. Nuckols
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF STR ATEGIC OFFICER
Diane Rhodes Bergman, APR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Patricia Walker
INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES AND L ABOR REL ATIONS
Rupert Hemmings
VICE PRESIDENT, ARTISTIC PL ANNING
Andréa Fuentes, Ed.D.
VICE PRESIDENT, CONNECTS
Kathleen Ruiz
VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
James Conlon
CONDUCTOR L AURE ATE
CONNECTS
SPECIAL EVENTS
TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
Adam LeBow
Lauren McLaughlin
DIRECTOR OF PROGR AMMING
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS
Jeff Kleeman
Natalie Ramirez
Caitlin Harper
Jake Ryan Lindsey
FINANCE
Tate Shoebridge
Deborah Gould
DIRECTOR OF OPER ATIONS A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION PROGR AM MANAGER
Julia Santha
PROGR AM COORDINATOR
Kirsten Anderson
COMMUNICATIONS A SSOCIATE
Bene’t Benton
PROGR AM A SSOCIATE
Gina Young
OPER ATIONS A SSOCIATE
EVENTS DESIGN MANAGER
CONTROLLER
Peter Pendergest
DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PL ANNING
Jing Hu
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Daisy Lopez
PAYROLL MANAGER
Brian Stefanko
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER
Eli Villanueva
RESIDENT STAGE DIRECTOR
HUMAN RESOURCES
COSTUMES
Esmeralda Marroquin
SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTR ATOR
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Carolina Angulo
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL DESIGN
Margie Schnibbe
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL ADMINISTR ATION
Stephanie Santiago
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL OPER ATIONS AND OFF GRAND PRODUCTION
Lisa Coto
PROPERTIES COORDINATOR
James Pomichter
PRODUCTION MEDIA MANAGER
Natalie Ferguson
TECHNICAL DESIGN COORDINATOR
Damon Schindler
RESIDENT LE AD SCENIC ARTIST
Chris Carey
TECHNICAL PAYROLL OFFICER
Dani Monterroso
Lina González-Granados
Jeannique Prospere
RESIDENT CONDUCTOR
COSTUME DIRECTOR
Jeremy Frank
Andrealisse Lopez
Jennifer Gonzalez
CHORUS DIRECTOR
FINANCE AND OPER ATIONS MANAGER
MUSIC ADMINISTRATION
Renée Fleming
Brittani Seach
Melisandra Dunker
Luz Gaitan Tilda Mingyo Seo Skylar Vulcan
ADVISOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS
Susan Graham
PRODUCTION, STOCK & RENTAL SUPERVISOR
ARTISTIC ADVISOR, YOUNG ARTIST PROGR AM
Neal Anderson
Paul Hopper
DEVELOPMENT
SENIOR DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC PL ANNING
ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION Nicki Harper
DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC OPER ATIONS
Whitney McAnally
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Blair Salter
HE AD OF MUSIC
Maya Ordóñez
MANAGER, ARTISTIC PROGR AMS AND REHE ARSAL
Chris Fox
MANAGER, ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION OPER ATIONS
Scarleth Arias
ARTISTIC OPER ATIONS COORDINATOR
BOX OFFICE Shane K. Morton
MAINTENANCE A SSOCIATE
Josh Harrold
DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT OPER ATIONS
Janneke Straub
DIRECTOR, LE ADERSHIP GIF TS
Robin Green
EXECUTIVE A SSISTANT AND OFFICE MANAGER
Kellynn Meeks
SENIOR BOARD AND EXECUTIVE ADMINISTR ATOR
Zade Dardari
ANNUAL FUND SPECIALIST
Joy Smythe-Macaulay
DIRECTOR, MA JOR GIF TS
Christian Johnsten
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MA JOR GIF TS
Evangeline Santos
MA JOR GIF TS OFFICER
Tim Stephenson
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
PUBLIC RELATIONS Marlene Meraz
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Mark Lyons
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS
Rosario Diaz
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Gloria Figueroa
CONTENT AND MEDIA SPECIALIST
SALES & MARKETING CRE ATIVE CONTENT DIRECTOR A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ACQUISITION AND MARKETING INTELLIGENCE
Keith J. Rainville
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, BR AND & DESIGN
Terrance Lovecraft
INTER ACTIVE & GR APHIC DESIGNER
Yesenia Vargas
MARKETING STR ATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
Daniel Calderon
Claudia Giugni
Xavier E. Pantoja
Kiana Culpepper Gaspar Vargas Guendulain
INSTITUTIONAL GIVING
Joslyn Treece
DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING & GOVERNMENT REL ATIONS
WALLY RUSSELL LIGHTING INTERNS
Oren Geshuri
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
DONOR STEWARDSHIP SPECIALIST
LIGHTING A SSISTANT
ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBR ARIAN
MA JOR GIF TS OFFICER
SECOND A SSISTANT TRE A SURERS
TICKET SELLERS
Josephine Lee
Pauline Hwa
Benji Railton-Ashe
Katherine Miranda
Steven Phu Steven Tran Robert Morrison Gage Unger
ORCHESTR A PERSONNEL MANAGER
INDIVIDUAL GIVING
Shawnet Sweets Brenda Roman
THIRD A SSISTANT TRE A SURERS
Brady Steel
Caitlin Carlson
BOX OFFICE TRE A SURER
Joseph Howells Lizania Mancia Andy Phu Andrew Tomasulo Susan Wong
MUSIC LIBR ARIAN
ANNUAL FUND COORDINATOR
A SSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MA JOR AND PL ANNED GIF TS
FIRST A SSISTANT TRE A SURERS
TECHNICAL A SSISTANT
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS & OPER ATIONS
Michael Masuda
NET WORK MANAGER
Alex Badali Brian Urrutia
APPLICATIONS ADMINISTR ATORS
ACADEMY INTERNS Jasper Beltran Diego Castro Arielle Escareno Elise Fukuda Cornelio Garcia
Audrey Morales Alan Munoz Sofia Padilla Elisa Raya Bejay Villanueva
CONSULTANTS Stephen King
HE AD OF VOCAL INSTRUCTION, DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGR AM
Paul Curran
HE AD OF DR AMATIC STUDIES, DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGR AM
Leonard Samuels, Zayde Creative Studio Fuse GR APHIC DESIGN
Marlinda Menashe
COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING COORDINATOR
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Teresa Wang
CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT
MARKETING DATA AND SYSTEMS COORDINATOR
Patricia McLeod Jill Boyd
HUMAN RESOURCES AND L ABOR REL ATIONS CONSULTANT
Frankie Cloete
INSTITUTIONAL GIVING OFFICER
Annie Mills
INSTITUTIONAL GIVING SPECIALIST
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‡ in memoriam
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
Marc and Eva Stern Foundation
GRoW @ Annenberg The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles Dunard Fund USA Gordon Getty The Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
Carol and Warner Henry Terri and Jerry Kohl Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate Ronus Foundation The Seaver Family Marilyn Ziering
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 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 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
25th Anniversary Angels
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 Musco The Seaver Family
Marc and Eva Stern Foundation
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles Gordon Getty
Carol and Warner Henry Alfred and Claude Mann Flora L. Thornton Marilyn Ziering
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 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 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
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SUPPORTERS
‡ in memoriam
20th Anniversary Angels
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 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 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
Domingo’s Angels
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 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
Founding Angels
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 Richard Seaver The Skirball Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Straus Flora L. Thornton Foundation
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SUPPORTERS
* Member of the Domingo Hindoyan Music Director’s Circle
‡ in memoriam
LA Opera recognizes the dedicated members of the Producing Partners Circle, who provide the foundational resources needed to bring world-class singers, conductors, directors and designers to our stage each season. Each year, their remarkable support enhances and sustains the artistic excellence of the company, ensuring LA Opera’s future growth and success. To learn more, call John Nuckols at 213.972.7256.
PREMIER DIAMOND PATRON ($500,000 & ABOVE) The Ahmanson Foundation GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation Gregory and Regina Weingarten The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Dunard Fund* 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 Keith R. Leonard, Jr.* 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* Suzanne and Fred Rheinstein Ronus Foundation The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera The David and Linda Shaheen Foundation* Eugene and Marilyn Stein Marc and Eva Stern Foundation* Ms. Barbara Augusta Teichert Emanuel Treitel Trust Alyce de Roulet Williamson‡ Marilyn Ziering
DIAMOND PATRON ($250,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous Leslie and John Dorman* Penelope Foley* The Green Foundation Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath
Dan Murphy Foundation The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Ariane and Lionel Sauvage Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP Ann Ziff
PREMIER PLATINUM PATRON ($150,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous (4) The Armenian Consortium* Patricia Artigas and Lucas Etchegaray The Blue Ribbon Ana and Robert Cook Michael and Jane Eisner Max H. Gluck Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation
James Mulally* Mei-Lee Ney Barry and Nancy Sanders Laura and Carlton Seaver Elizabeth Segerstrom Christopher V. Walker Scott Watt Family
PLATINUM PATRON ($100,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous (3) Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing Mrs. Michele Brustin* Barbara Burtin Margaret Sheehy Collins Family of Ginger Conrad* Mark H. Dalzell* and James Dao-Dalzell‡ Kathleen and Jerrold Eberhardt* Diane and Peter Gray Rian Johnson* Monique and Jonathan Kagan* Richard Kendall and Lisa See Lawrence A. Kern Edward Lewis* LGHG Foundation, in memory of Louise Garland
L.L. Foundation for Youth Susan Lord and Scott Richard Lord* Patty and Ken McKenna* Carolyn L. Miller* The Music Man Foundation The Negaunee Foundation The Opera League of Los Angeles Estate of Mimi Rotter Susan R. Shapiro* Thurmond Smithgall LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District Alan and Janet Stanford Kyle Thorpe* Paul and Catherine Tosetti* Ellen and Arnold Zetcher*
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Meet the Maestro “For me, music was part of normal life. At a very early stage, I started in the youth orchestra. My father was all about music, strong discipline, practice every day, orchestra rehearsal every day. I would go to a concert every week. So, for me, music, that was what it was all about.” But succeeding James Conlon, LA Opera’s beloved music director who stepped down earlier this year, wasn’t the hand of destiny so much as it was the hand of President and CEO Christopher Koelsch, who keeps a running list of artists who have impressed him over the years. “As we were coming to the end of James’ tenure, I accelerated the process of culling that list. Once we had a committee working in earnest, we were down to three people,” says Koelsch. “When I look back in my archives, I had made extensive notes about Domingo all the way back in 2015,” when he first saw Hindoyan conduct in Berlin. Koelsch still remembers the impact of that encounter. “Even then, it was unmistakable: here was an artist with a strong, confident point of view and the ability to inspire an orchestra to bring his ideas to life with real color and clarity. His leadership on the podium was distinctive—and honestly, electrifying.” Hindoyan hit a fork in the road during his teen years when he was accepted to both engineering and medical school. He had been practicing the violin four to six hours a day since the age of 12. For a short time, he attended medical school, a short walk from the city’s most illustrious concert hall. In the end, music won out. “I was always a hidden conductor,” he confesses, having picked up the baton for the first time at the age of 14 for Grieg’s Peer Gynt. “I always had this curiosity to go further, to see the whole picture. I used to take the score and go through recordings with it, so it was how I learned a little bit on my own.” At the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève, he received his master’s degree in conducting and was
soon invited to join the Allianz International Conductors’ Academy, where he worked with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Sir Andrew Davis at the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Then came a chance meeting in Lucerne that might have sealed his fate. While attending a rehearsal of the touring Chicago Symphony, he was introduced to legendary conductor Daniel Barenboim, who asked about the origins of his name. He learned that Hindoyan’s mother was an Armenian from Syria. Eyeing his violin case, he asked the young man to play for him and invited him to join his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, composed mostly of Middle Eastern musicians. “When I left the hall, I said, ‘What did I just do?’” Hindoyan laughs. “Then I became nervous afterward. A year later, when I joined the orchestra, I had to audition for him again. Then I was even more nervous.” He served as Barenboim’s first assistant conductor at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin from 2013 through 2016. “What I learned from him, to make the relationship between harmony, rhythm, your whole life, the emotion, the tempo, and the sound. I’m still learning today.” Since then, his career has taken him to the world’s most prestigious opera houses and concert halls. In 2019, he became principal guest conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. A year later, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra made him chief conductor on a one-season contract that was later extended through 2028. In between rehearsals and performances, there is life to be lived. Back in 2009, when he was a student in Geneva, he met soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The pair had been studying in the same building for six years but only met on her last day there. That encounter lit a match that became an inferno five years later when they married and had their first child, Mateo. The second, Sophia, came five years after that. continued on pg. 32
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It could be destiny that brought Domingo Hindoyan to the conductor’s podium. Son of an accomplished violinist, he graduated from the renowned Venezuelan music program El Sistema, whose many illustrious alumni include Gustavo Dudamel, a longtime friend.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
I was always a hidden conductor. I always had this curiosity to go further, to see the whole picture.
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Ceil and Michael Pulitzer LA Opera has a long history—and a renewed commit ment—to expanding the mainstage repertoire with contemporary work. It is through the generous underwriting support of Ceil and Michael Pulitzer that LA Opera is once again able to present Candide. Since 2003, the Pulitzers have helped bring striking new productions and important contemporary works to the LA Opera stage, including Ariadne auf Naxos (2004), Grendel (2006), Porgy and Bess (2007), the Ring cycle (2010), The Turn of the Screw (2011), Einstein on the Beach (2013), Orphée et Eurydice (2018), Satyagraha (2018), the Barrie Kosky production of La Bohème (2019), St. Matthew Passion (2022), and Akhnaten (2016 and 2026). They have also generously supported the company’s 20th, 25th and 30th Anniversary Angels leadership giving groups. The Pulitzers’ involvement with LA Opera reflects their deep commitment to the arts and culture and to Ceil Pulitzer’s longtime passion for opera. She first fell in love with the art form as a student at Sacred Heart School in Manhattan. The school maintained a box at
the Metropolitan Opera and she would attend as often as possible with her friends. In 2012, she was elected an honorary member of the LA Opera board of directors. As an artist, Mrs. Pulitzer studied at the Art Students League, New York University, the New School for Social Research and the University of Michigan. She is a trustee of The UCSB Foundation, a member of the World Fellowship of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Association and the national council of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and a past member of the MOCA board of trustees. Michael Pulitzer is a retired newspaper executive and former chairman of Pulitzer, Inc. His distinguished 45-year career began in 1960 as a reporter for the St. Louis PostDispatch and concluded with his retirement as chairman in 2005. He later retired from the board of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., in 2007. LA Opera gratefully thanks Ceil and Michael Pulitzer for their extraordinary generosity and enduring dedication to the company.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT continued from pg. 30 “We keep it well balanced, the family and the professional relationships,” he says of his home life. “We work together very rarely, which we both think is very healthy. But if the right project comes at the right moment, I expect to see her in LA.” “What really set him apart for me,” says Koelsch, “is how deeply he is interested in other people. Everything else grows out of that—his remarkable musical imagination, the way he communicates with such clarity and warmth, and his instinct for collaboration. He just loves discovering and celebrating what people do best, whether he’s talking to a waiter, a security guard, a prima donna, or a donor. That kind of expansive humanity, paired with real artistic brilliance, is what makes him such an exceptional leader. When people feel truly seen and appreciated, the work is better.” Hindoyan’s unofficial audition for the LA Opera job came in 2024 with Roméo et Juliette, his debut here.
“I just went for it,” he says of the well-reviewed performance. “I wanted to find complicity, as I do with every orchestra and opera house. I was demanding with the orchestra and they were reacting back and I felt at home. I wanted to know if the chemistry was going to be possible. And here we are.” Hindoyan aims to commission new work and emphasize community outreach, mainly by adding an opera component to Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA). He also hopes to introduce “pocket operas,” short pieces running no more than 25 minutes, to make the medium more accessible. “If we can provide excitement, then the audience will grow and donors will grow, and that’s what we have to create,” he says. “We have to be protectors of what we’re doing; it’s very important. I will try to bring ideas and get to know the community and see what can be done. But I heard from two friends that if I want to set my imagination free, LA is the place to do it.”
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Behind the Curtain with Music Director Domingo Hindoyan
Music Director Domingo Hindoyan (left) interviewed by President and CEO Christopher Koelsch for a recent Behind the Curtain podcast.
Domingo Hindoyan is here—and he’s thinking deeply about how music brings people together and enriches our lives. In this excerpt from our Behind the Curtain podcast, our new Music Director shares his view on the importance of music for children, his goals for building connections through opera, and what makes Los Angeles such an inspiring city for creatives. Along the way, discover how LA Opera Connects can help you bring children to their first opera, make art with your community on stage, and celebrate the unique heritage and culture of Los Angeles.
THE POWER OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN Domingo Hindoyan: “I think introducing children to music early on is of essential, vital importance. Music provides something absolutely unique, a coordination between the mind and the body and the soul, in a way that nothing else can. There’s something innate in the harmony and in the rhythm that goes straight to the soul of the human being, and even more so for a child. Music develops sensitivity, it develops empathy, it develops many things that kids should learn immediately. When that education is accessible to everyone, I think that’s absolutely healthy for the community.”
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Help your child connect with music through movement, open their imagination, and discover the joy of creativity with LA Opera Connects when you attend Saturday Mornings at the Opera. Our lobby buzzes with hands-on arts activities, including singing, dancing, costume design, and more, providing opportunities for every child to find their own connection to opera. The morning concludes with a performance written especially for kids. Visit LAOpera.org/SMO to learn how you can experience the arts together with your little ones at Saturday Mornings at the Opera.
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BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH STORY AND SONG Domingo Hindoyan: “I think the music director has a responsibility of artistic excellence, and then connect ing with the community as much as we can. After every performance, the audience should leave the theater inspired with the curiosity to come back, moved to tears or laughing, but they should go home marked by something they’ve seen. You learn from the community, but you also influence the community as well, and your audience. It’s a relationship that nourishes both ways.”
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LA Opera Connects provides many opportunities to participate in this dialogue between artists and audience, including the chance to join us on stage in our annual Community Opera. This spring, we invite artists of all experience levels to perform alongside members of the LA Opera Orchestra and Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados in The Three
Women of Jerusalem at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. This fully staged Spanish-language opera explores the power of compassion and unity. Sign up now at LAOpera.org/CommunityOpera to join the acting ensemble, mass chorus, or student orchestra.
SPOTLIGHT ON LA ARTS AND CULTURE Domingo Hindoyan: “Los Angeles is one of the best cities in the world in cultural life, gastronomic life, weather, situation, personality, imagination. LA is known for being creative and vibrant, and LA Opera is right in the cultural center. I just want to be part of that and start my journey here, start to work with the orchestra, start to work with the chorus and the singers and start all the projects. I’m very, very much impatient, to be honest.”
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Celebrate the many cultures and traditions that inspire Los Angeles at our Celebración de las Artes on December 13. We’ll gather on The Music Center Plaza in front of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for an afternoon of live entertainment and a holiday market showcasing local artists and small-business owners. We hope you’ll join us for this free event to connect with your neighbors, enjoy music and dance performances, and snag the perfect holiday gift for everyone on your list. RSVP now at LAOpera.org/Celebracion for the latest updates.
Be sure to tune in to the new season of Behind the Curtain for fresh conversations with the artists and creatives who bring opera to life on our stage, available wherever you listen to podcasts.
These curated excerpts are just the beginning of our conversation with Domingo Hindoyan. Scan the QR code to hear Maestro Hindoyan explore his favorite operas, his musical journey from violinist to conductor, and more on this episode of Behind the Curtain, “Welcoming Music Director Domingo Hindoyan to LA Opera.”
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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, in memory of Joan L. 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
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THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS! Join us in December for four spectacular holiday concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall and one special concert at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
CAROLS FOR KIDS SAT, DEC 5 AT 11 AM Includes family holiday activities and photos with Santa.
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15TH ANNUAL TUCSON DESERT SONG FESTIVAL
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Join us as we celebrate the human voice, bringing the world’s great singers to Tucson, Arizona. From symphony to opera to the recital stage, experience your favorite performers up close and personal, while enjoying Tucson’s spectacular winter and spring weather! Highlights of the 2027 festival include selections from John Corigliano's song cycle commissioned by the Tucson Desert Song Festival, now rewritten for voice, violin and orchestra, again interpreted by violinist Joshua Bell and soprano Larisa Martinez.
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2026/2027 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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 Maria Rosario Jackson Ronald D. Kaplan Richard B. Kendall Lily Lee Keith R. Leonard, Jr. Stephen F. Macias Kelsey N. Martin Elizabeth Michelson Cindy Miscikowski Teresita Notkin Karen Kay Platt Susan Erburu Reardon Joseph J. Rice Beverly P. Ryder
Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen Darrell R. Brown Ronald W. Burkle John B. Emerson ** Richard M. Ferry 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 9/18/26
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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)
Photo Credit: David Franco, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Photographer.
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.
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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
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Happening at The Music Center SUN 1 NOV / 1:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Meredith Willson's The Music Man CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 11/8/2026 SUN 1 NOV / 2:00 p.m. Carmen LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 11/7/2026 SUN NOV 1 / 2:00 p.m. "Seasons of America" with Teddy Abrams & Ray Chen LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SUN 1 NOV / 7:00 p.m. Building Bridges: The Master Chorale in Concert with the National Chorus of Korea LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall FRI 6 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Daniel Harding & Leif Ove Andsnes LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/8/2026 SAT 7 NOV / 10:00 a.m. Saturday Mornings at the Opera: Open Door Days LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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TUE 10 NOV / 7:30 p.m. Oh, Mary! CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 12/6/2026
SAT 21 NOV / 7:30 p.m. Candide LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 12/13/2026
WED 11 NOV / 7:30 p.m. Destiny of Desire CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Mark Taper Forum Thru 12/20/2026
TUE 24 NOV / 8:00 p.m. The Mountain Goats LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
FRI 13 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 11/15/2026 SAT 14 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Jorge Drexler LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall FRI 20 NOV / 11:00 a.m. Ravel, Falla & Ortiz LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/22/2026
FRI 27 NOV / 8:00 p.m. "Home Alone" in Concert LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 11/28/2026 SAT 28 NOV / 8:00 p.m. "Elf" in Concert LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 11/29/2026
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SAT 21 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Colburn Orchestra LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Photo by John McCoy for The Music Center.
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Join us for L.A.’s favorite holiday tradition!
NEW DATE! DECEMBER 20, 2026 TWO SHOW TIMES! 11:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Celebrate L.A.’s Diverse Cultures at a FREE Family-Friendly Holiday Music and Dance Show!
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Top left: Harmonic Bronze. Top right: Pacifico Dance Company. Bottom left image: Yaya Dance Academy. Photo Credit: Timothy Norris for The Music Center.
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Feel the fearless spirit that defined a generation!
The Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre January 15–17, 2027 Trailblazing choreographer Sonya Tayeh, Tony Award® winner for Moulin Rouge! The Musical, brings the music and spirit of Sinéad O’Connor to the stage in The Surge. Performed by a remarkable cast of 10 women, this electrifying new work explores resilience, rebellion and the enduring power of female expression.
Photo by Tom Visser.
A JOYCE THEATER PRODUCTION
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