Performances Magazine | LA Opera, April 2026

8 READY FOR THE INSIDE SCOOP ON VERDI AND FALSTAFF ?

In this excerpt from a recent Behind the Curtain podcast, broadcast journalist Gail Eichenthal sits down with Music Director James Conlon to share why Falstaff is essential viewing for any Verdi fan.

9 A COSMIC SCHERZO: A NOTE FROM MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES CONLON

With more than 500 Verdi performances in his career to date, James Conlon has a lifetime of admiration for the composer’s work.

12 NEWS AND PREVIEWS

15 VERDI’S LAST LAUGH

A listener’s guide to Falstaff.

P1 TODAY’S PERFORMANCE

Meet the cast and creative team.

Above: Based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi’s Falstaff pits a down-on-his-luck knight in a losing battle of wits against four very clever women.

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Welcome to LA Opera

Dear friends,

Our 40th Anniversary Season is drawing to a close and will conclude with two of the greatest of all operatic comedies, Falstaff and The Magic Flute—a fitting way to celebrate conductor James Conlon in his final performances as our beloved Music Director. Happily, he will remain with the company as our first Conductor Laureate.

Falstaff was the final opera and crowning achievement of Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest of Italian opera composers. This peerless comic masterpiece is one of ten Verdi operas James has conducted during his two decades with the company; over the course of his career, he has led more than 500 Verdi performances worldwide.

Our delightful production—first seen in 2013—returns in a revival directed by Shawna Lucey. The superb ensemble cast is led by our longtime friend Craig Colclough as Falstaff, his signature role. This extraordinary bass-baritone began his career with the company, rising from supporting parts to leading roles including Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Capulet in Roméo et Juliette

He will be joined by a number of returning company favorites, including soprano Nicole Heaston as Alice Ford and mezzo-soprano Hyona Kim as Mistress Quickly, along with two alumni of our DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program: tenor Anthony León as Fenton and mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino as Meg Page. We are also pleased to welcome baritone Ernesto Petti and soprano Deanna Breiwick to Los Angeles for their company debuts as Ford and Nannetta. Three wonderful current members of the Young Artist Program—tenors Yuntong Han and Nathan Bowles and bass Vinícius Costa—complete the cast.

I am deeply grateful to the underwriters whose generosity has made it possible for us to bring this masterpiece to our stage, where its humor, brilliance, and emotional depth can be fully appreciated: GRoW @ Annenberg, Andrea Pessino, the Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn), Barbara Augusta Teichert, and the Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund. I also extend my thanks for the additional support of Laura and Carlton Seaver, and my special appreciation to Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten.

Completed when Verdi was 79 years old, Falstaff represents the culmination of a lifetime of musical mastery, filled with extraordinary orchestral invention, irrepressible energy, intricate ensembles, and unforgettable characters. I hope this triumph of comic opera will move, delight, and inspire you.

Sincerely,

Christopher Koelsch SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

LA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marc Stern* HONORARY CHAIRMAN

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Janet J. Ciriello, Ed.D.

James Conlon†

Robert Cook

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Eric L. Small

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Janet Stanford

Dr. Ellen G. Strauss

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Joakim Zetterberg

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John A. McCone

Lawrence Deutsch

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Edward W. Carter

Thomas Wachtell

Roy L. Ash

Bernard A. Greenberg

Richard Seaver

Leonard I. Green

Marc Stern

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Frank E. Baxter

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Keith R. Leonard, Jr.

Ready for the inside scoop on Giuseppe Verdi and Falstaff?

On LA Opera’s Behind the Curtain podcast, we explore the charismatic creatives, gripping stories, and sublime music that make us fall in love with opera. In this excerpt from a recent episode, Music Director James Conlon sits down with broadcast journalist Gail Eichenthal to share why he “can’t live without Verdi” and believes the composer’s final opera, Falstaff, is essential viewing for any Verdi fan.

Gail Eichenthal: Hello, and welcome to 20 Years with Maestro Conlon , a miniseries with James Conlon, commemorating this, his culminating season as music director at LA Opera, after which he becomes Conductor Laureate.

Today, we’ll discuss Verdi’s last great masterpiece for the stage, Falstaff. There could hardly be a richer topic to talk about your legacy at LA Opera than Italian opera and Giuseppe Verdi, and it goes way back to your first season.

JC: Well, my first weekend was very Verdian here in LA Opera. La Traviata, I think, on Friday and Don Carlo

Behind the Curtain

A CONVERSATION WITH MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES CONLON

on Saturday. That was a great way to start. Verdi goes back to the beginning of my awareness of my love for classical music, period. It all started when I saw a performance of La Traviata. That set it all in motion. I feel I can’t live without Verdi. I can’t conceive of classical music without thinking of Verdi.

GE: And, if I understand this right, you’ve done more than 500 performances of Verdi worldwide?

JC: Yes, that’s right. I passed that in 2019. So that’s much closer to, I don’t know, 550 now. Many of those performances have been here at LA Opera.

GE: So, if you can sort of sum it up, what drives your passion for Verdi?

JC: I keep coming back to the human being, because Verdi’s life and personality attracts and interests me. Now, you can read all about how Verdi was irascible and difficult, and he probably was. But I also believe that there was something deeply human about Verdi, and part of that was, I think, the origins of his life and his birth. He was born into a poor house in the little town of Busseto, Italy. I’ve visited it several times, and I had one very dramatic experience, which was in January.

I remember getting lost in the mist because it was so thick that you could not see two feet in front of you. And this so profoundly affected me because, you know, we all have this sort of cliché vision of Italy, all sunshine, palm trees in the south. We forget that the north of Italy is cold, dark, covered with fog and mist in winter. Verdi was born into that and I think this deeply informed his humanity. This is a man who always kept his connection to the earth. He never lost that.

GE: Amazing. We’re about to be treated to Verdi’s final operatic masterpiece. Tell us what drew you to programming Falstaff toward the end of your final season as Music Director here at LA Opera.

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JC: Well, it’s no accident that I chose Falstaff, which is Verdi’s last work, and The Magic Flute, which is Mozart’s

last work. And for our gala concert on April 24, we’re doing big excerpts of Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner, because I think those are the three pillars—or should be the three pillars—of any opera house, and three that I have tried to defend in my years here at LA Opera. This is my expression of “goodbye” or “farewell,” programming and conducting those final works.

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JC: Falstaff is definitely an autumnal work. Verdi was 80 when he wrote it. He wrote it because he had an inner need to prove to himself, probably, that he could write a comedy successfully, because he had only written one and it was not a success. And that always bothered him. Of course, he always loved Shakespeare, so he turned The Merry Wives of Windsor into something better than the play, turning it into one of the most perfect operas, a masterpiece.

GE: It’s just brimming with humor and joy, and anyone can pick up on that. You don’t have to speak the language. It’s just full of delight.

JC: Well, it goes by at the speed of light. Amazingly witty and also an ironic work where he chooses selfcitation. He almost takes quotes or similarities with operas that he’s written to satirize himself and to say, “Well, this is what I used to do in melodramas. Here it is now in a comic context.”

So it’s a self-referential work and as such, for anybody who loves the rest of Verdi, it’s essential.

This is just a glimpse of James Conlon’s conversation with Gail Eichenthal. To hear more—including how the famous “Va, pensiero” chorus from Verdi’s Nabucco became a near-national anthem for Italy and the tale of a 12-year-old James Conlon’s professional choral debut in La Bohème—listen to the full episode of Behind the Curtain, “20 Years with Maestro Conlon: Italian Opera.” Scan the QR code to tune in and explore the complete 20 Years with Maestro Conlon mini-series on LA Opera’s Behind the Curtain, available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Falstaff: A Cosmic Scherzo

Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera Falstaff is a paradox.

Together with Otello, it represents the zenith of Italian opera.

Verdi’s Falstaff and Mozart’s The Magic Flute, two great final operas from their respective and muchbeloved composers, will be the last productions I will conduct as Music Director of LA Opera. I very much wished to mark this moment.

Verdi’s lifelong love for the works of William Shakespeare produced Macbeth (1847), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893). These three works have been with me since my earliest musical memories in the 1960s. I had seen two of them by the age of 14. Less than a decade later, in 1972, I conducted Falstaff, my first professional engagement. A year later, Macbeth, and by 1976, Otello. By the end of this series of performances, I will have conducted these three works almost in exact equal measure, 191 times.

Very early on, I became familiar with an essential literary voice when it came to both Shakespeare and Verdi. Through two essays, “The Prince’s Dog” and “The Joker in the Pack,” W.H. Auden opened a vast new horizon to me. The former, using Falstaff, and the latter, Iago, were starting points for a profound study not just of their authors, but of the universal implications of both characters—their worlds, and ours. There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that Auden, teaching a class on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, opined that it was a boring and uninteresting play, and that its greatest significance was that it provided the world with

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a story that, centuries later, would inspire one of the great works of Western civilization: Falstaff, the opera.

It was written by a then 80-year-old Verdi, in collaboration with librettist Arrigo Boito. Together with their previous collaboration, Otello, Falstaff represents the zenith of Italian opera. It is a highly innovative culminating achievement of more than half a century of artistic output. Over those years, Verdi gradually transformed the meaning of Italian opera. He worked toward a continuous flow of music based on the dramatic situation. He gradually reduced the predominance of arias, cabalettas, set numbers, vocal display, and high notes. Falstaff and Otello perplexed some traditional opera lovers, but they also won over many with no particular sympathy for Italian opera—earning, in some cases, begrudging admiration.

In the opinion of many, Falstaff’s musical and comedic perfection has never been matched.

It is a work of paradoxes, ironies, and contradictions. A raucous comedy with profound undertones, it reflects both the philosophical wisdom and resignation of old age. And yet it is infused with astonishing youthful vigor. It demonstrates a total mastery of marrying text and music. Dramatic wit, melodic and contrapuntal invention coexist in a musical text replete with self-deprecating humor and irony.

style of Shakespear [sic], Othello is a play written by Shakespear in the style of Italian opera....With such a libretto, Verdi was quite at home: his success with it proves not that he should occupy Shakespear’s plane, but that Shakespear could on occasion occupy his.”

And with Falstaff, they far surpassed the original Merry Wives of Windsor, considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker works. One of Verdi’s and Boito’s great accomplishments was to blend the Falstaff of The Merry Wives of Windsor with his original incarnation from Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Their rotund knight achieves a depth and breadth latent in Shakespeare but only realized in this musical reincarnation.

Falstaff is a perfect combination of the skepticism (even cynicism) of an octogenarian genius and an extraordinary life-affirming joie de vivre.

His three Shakespearean operas have encountered resistance and devaluation, as well as special reverberance, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world. These works were constantly compared to their literary originals, disappointing some while convincing others. The majority view emerged that, in writing Macbeth, Verdi had made a giant leap in both his and contemporary opera’s development but fell short of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Not so for Otello. Verdi and Boito, equaling Shakespeare, produced the perfect operatic equivalent of the original tragedy, leading the Italian operatic tradition to the first part of a double zenith. George Bernard Shaw, in his inimitable manner, observed: “The truth is that instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the

Falstaff has been with me for my entire lifetime of music making. I was in my early teens when I first saw it at the old Metropolitan Opera House in the now-legendary Zeffirelli/Bernstein production. Fewer than ten years later, I conducted it in my first professional engagement, literally a month after graduating from conservatory. Falstaff is to the conductor what Aida, Otello, and Rigoletto are to those who sing their title roles. Falstaff’s musical structure, the demands of a perfect ensemble of singers and orchestra, is now the “protagonist,” hence fully in the domain of musical direction. The challenge and joy of steering this ship, while the music goes by at the speed of light, is among the greatest experiences a conductor can have.

Fifty years separate this production of Falstaff my eighth—from my first performance at age 22; approximately the same span separated Verdi’s first and final successes, Nabucco and Falstaff, and the failure of his first comedy Un Giorno di Regno and Falstaff’s rectification of that early misstep. There may be Verdi operas that I love as much, but none that I love more. He finishes his operatic life with a fugue— witty, ironic, and self-deprecating. Tutto nel mondo è burla… “Everything in the world is mockery.” I dedicate these performances to Giuseppe Verdi, with the gratitude that I—we all—owe him for what he has bequeathed to all of us, and to the entire world.

LA Opera is delighted to thank GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation for their underwriting support of Falstaff.

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

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

GRoW’s support of LA Opera has been steadfast since its first significant commitment in 2015. Over the years, GRoW has underwritten nearly 20 productions, dating back to the 2017 production of Salome. These include new productions such as Lucia di Lammermoor (2022), The Marriage of Figaro (2023), Highway 1, USA (2024) and Ainadamar (2025). The company was honored to recognize GRoW as its 2022/23 Season Underwriter in gratitude for their underwriting support of four productions in that season alone.

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

Régina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

brought much-deserved attention to this rarely seen incarnation of the classic film. Additionally, GRoW underwrote last season’s productions of Roméo et Juliette and Ainadamar, as well as the company’s presentations—both last season and later this season— of Paris’s Les Talens Lyriques, performing at Zipper Hall on May 24, 2026.

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

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

COMING UP

THE MAGIC FLUTE

Our blockbuster production returns (May 30 through June 21) with its enchanting blend of onstage action and projected animations. LAOpera.org/Flute

Andrea Pessino

LA Opera is honored to thank Andrea Pessino for his underwriting support of this production of Falstaff. While relatively new to the LA Opera family, Mr. Pessino has already had a profound impact on the company. In 2022, Mr. Pessino joined the board of directors, and shortly thereafter, he became a member of the 30th Anniversary Angels, LA Opera’s premier support circle, 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 last season’s Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto, as well as La Bohème earlier this season. Mr. Pessino serves on several board committees, including as a vice 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, producing 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 among the recipients of Mr. Pessino’s immense generosity and dedication to this beautiful art form.

The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund

LA Opera extends its gratitude to the Tarasenka Pankiv Fund for its support of this season’s production of Falstaff. Tara Colburn established the fund through a bequest in her will, having served as an active board member of LA Opera since the company’s founding in 1986. She was one of the company’s most dedicated supporters for nearly two decades before her passing in 2003. In her farsighted devotion to the company, Ms. Colburn planned this generous endowment to ensure in perpetuity that LA Opera would continue to bring world-class opera productions to future generations.

Ms. Colburn, and subsequently this fund, have to date underwritten 15 LA Opera productions, and most generously supported the company’s supertitles for many years. She would be pleased to know that our supertitles continue to be funded by Dunard Fund USA in her honor since 2010. Her commitment to music extended worldwide as she gave generously to the Metropolitan Opera, Long Beach Opera, LA Chamber Orchestra,

LA Master Chorale, Glyndebourne Festival and the Salzburg Festival, where she served on the board of the American Friends of Salzburg.

Her love of music and the arts began in early childhood. Born Tarasenka Pankiv in Zagreb, Croatia, she studied piano with her concert pianist mother. Her grandfather was director of the Zagreb Conservatory.

She once wrote, “I will be proud to have played a small part in a very important cultural contribution to the life of our community.” Over the course of many years, she played a starring role in the history of the company. We are grateful to Tara Colburn and the Tarasenka Pankiv Fund for over three decades of vital contribution and a legacy of support that continues to carry LA Opera into the future.

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Barbara Augusta Teichert has helped to bring many of LA Opera’s most beloved productions to the stage for over 17 years. Now, through her generosity, the company is thrilled to be reviving Verdi’s Falstaff this season.

A board member since 2009, Barbara has helped to give life to an impressive number of our productions: Luisa Fernanda (2007), Die Walküre (2009 and 2010), Tamerlano (2009), Il Postino (2010), Simon Boccanegra and The Two Foscari (2012), Thaïs and La Traviata (2014), Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi (2015), Macbeth (2016), Nabucco (2017), El Gato Montés (2019), Roberto Devereux (2020), La Cenerentola (2021), Javier Camarena in recital (2022), Otello (2023), and Turandot and Roméo et Juliette (2024). She also supported the 2007 Verdi Requiem and the 2008 gala celebrating Plácido Domingo’s 40th anniversary in Los Angeles, as well as a 2006 DVD production of La Traviata, starring Renée Fleming. She is a member of LA Opera’s 20th and 30th Anniversary Angels leadership giving programs. Barbara, who lives in Pennsylvania, shows her love of opera by making sure that a number of companies

have the support they need. In 2018, she was elected to the board of Opera Philadelphia. She has underwritten a number of productions there over the years, ranging from Don Carlo and Kevin Puts’ Silent Night to Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain and Ainadamar. She served on the board of Washington National Opera for nine years, supporting a project there every season for over a decade. This past December, she underwrote WNO’s The Little Prince. For the Metropolitan Opera, she has helped underwrite a number of productions, beginning with the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor through Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and, most recently, Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chenier. In 2023, having been a longtime member of OA’s National Opera Center board, she was invited to join the board of Opera America.

Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund

For many years, hundreds of senior citizens from every part of Los Angeles have had the opportunity to be captivated by the enthralling stories and soul-stirring music of great opera performances. These experiences have been made possible thanks to Emanuel Treitel, whose passion for opera and devotion to LA Opera led him to include a significant gift to the company in his estate.

Following his passing, his legacy ensures that LA Opera will continue to produce world class opera on its stage and provide Los Angeles seniors with access to the beauty and drama of opera in perpetuity, through the Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund.

Mr. Treitel was a subscriber and supporter of LA Opera from the company’s earliest seasons. He could frequently be found in the Founders Circle on opening nights and loved celebrating with the artists at season-opening galas. As the years passed, he had to overcome physical challenges to attend performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and he noticed that he wasn’t alone in this. Beginning in 2015, Mr. Treitel

made generous gifts to help senior citizens attend mainstage productions as well as to bring opera to local seniors through recitals in senior community centers, residences and care facilities. His legacy gift will support these programs for years to come.

Marc Stern, Honorary Chairman of the LA Opera board of directors, expressed his deep gratitude: “Manny’s commitment is so meaningful because it speaks to his deep love of opera and of this company. His gift continues to make a huge difference in the lives of many, many underserved seniors.”

With heartfelt thanks, LA Opera dedicates our yearround programs for seniors, and this run of Falstaff, to Mr. Treitel for sharing his love of opera with seniors, and all of us, across Los Angeles.

Laura and Carlton Seaver

The Seaver family’s longstanding tradition of generous support for LA Opera continues this season with their production underwriting for Verdi’s Falstaff. Since the company’s earliest days, the Seaver name has been synonymous with its growth and continued success, and LA Opera is honored to recognize their multigenerational legacy of philanthropy.

The late Richard Seaver, one of the founders of LA Opera, joined the board of directors in 1986. He subsequently served as president, chairman and chairman emeritus. Inspired by his passion for opera and for the company, he became a member of the Founding, Domingo’s, and 20th Anniversary Angels. In recognition of his leadership, Richard portrayed the Cardinal in LA Opera’s productions of Tosca in 2001 and 2005.

The Seaver family’s enduring support for LA Opera continues to this day, including underwriting support for 20 productions since 1991 and joining the company’s 25th, 30th and 40th Anniversary Angels. Following in his father’s footsteps, Carlton Seaver has served on LA Opera’s board of directors since 2005 and, like his father, he also appeared onstage as the Cardinal in the

2017 revival of Tosca. In addition to providing underwriting support for a production each season, Carlton and his wife Laura also generously support LA Opera’s education programs, helping to ensure that young people from across Southern California are able to experience the thrill of live opera.

LA Opera thanks the Seavers with deep gratitude for their indispensable devotion to the company throughout its history.

Verdi’s Last Laugh: A Listener’s Guide to Falstaff

It would be hard to find a more successful fusion of words and music than Falstaff. Dispensing with an overture, the opera plunges straight into the action, rarely pausing for conventional arias. The first of Falstaff’s great monologues, the aria “L’onore! Ladri!” (“Honor! Thieves!”), unfolds in the opening tavern scene, showing how deftly Verdi reinforces dramatic ideas through orchestration. Scrutinizing the merits of honor, Falstaff asks a series of rhetorical questions, introducing a melodic phrase that returns, played expansively by the strings, when he rejects honor altogether. At the end of the scene, the theme hurtles back at top speed in the trumpet and high woodwinds, with strings bustling vigorously below, as Falstaff throws his companions out. The next scene features a dazzling ensemble for nine voices, sung in three distinct layers: Ford

and his friends relish Falstaff’s coming humiliation; the four women continue their own plotting; and Fenton soars romantically over them all, lost in thoughts of Nannetta.

Amid this comic chaos, Verdi briefly turns to genuine psychological drama in Ford’s Act Two aria, “È sogno? o realtà?” (“Is this a dream or reality?”). Dark, stormy orchestration and sharply etched vocal lines convey his inner torment, showing how laughter and emotional depth can coexist seamlessly.

The opera concludes with one of Verdi’s most dazzling creations, an exhilarating finale in the form of a fugue, demanding equal virtuosity from soloists, chorus, orchestra and conductor. We can sense Verdi’s sheer delight to prove he was a triumphant master of operatic comedy.

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LA Opera’s productions from the Italian repertoire are made possible in part by an extraordinary leadership gift in memory of Luciano Pavarotti and in honor of his remarkable contributions to the world of opera.

Alyssa Park is LA Opera’s New Concertmaster

Violinist Alyssa Park has been appointed to the position of Stuart Canin Concertmaster of the LA Opera Orchestra, with her first performances in that capacity in our current production of Falstaff.

“After many years on the concert stage, I am deeply honored to begin this new chapter as concertmaster of LA Opera,” she said. “Opera’s power lies in its ability to transform music and drama into living storytelling, revealing the depth and complexity of the human experience and strengthening the cultural fabric of the community. I look forward to collaborating closely with Maestro James Conlon and Maestro Domingo Hindoyan, and with my colleagues in the orchestra, to shape performances that are vibrant, collaborative, and rooted in musical integrity. To serve Los Angeles—a city that has been central to my artistic life—in this role is an extraordinary privilege.”

Ms. Park is the second person to hold the position of Stuart Canin Concertmaster, a chair established in perpetuity by Dunard Fund USA to honor the distinguished tenure of Stuart Canin, who served as LA Opera’s

concertmaster from 2001 to 2010. She succeeds Roberto Cani, who was concertmaster from 2011 until his untimely passing last year. Ms. Park first performed with LA Opera as guest concertmaster for the 2010 world premiere of Daniel Catán’s Il Postino.

“I am more than delighted that in Alyssa Park we have found an extraordinary violinist and musician for the future,” said James Conlon. “As I leave LA Opera after 20 wonderful years as Music Director, I am happy that the post of concertmaster has been filled so well. We all wel come her to the company, and I wish her and all of our colleagues and friends in the LA Opera Orchestra, as well as my own successor Domingo Hindoyan, a fruitful and long working relationship well into the future.”

The 2026 Stern Artist Awards

Soprano Kathleen O’Mara and tenor Duke Kim are the 2026 recipients of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award.

The Stern Artist Award was established in 2021 by Eva and Marc Stern, two of the greatest champions and most dedicated supporters in the history of LA Opera. The annual award serves as an expression of gratitude to gifted artists who have made an indelible mark on LA Opera’s artistic profile. This year’s award recipients will receive $25,000 each.

Kathleen O’Mara was a member of the company’s Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program from 2023 to 2025, making her memorable company debut as Berta in The Barber of Seville in 2023. This season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and as the First Lady in The

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Magic Flute, returned to La Scala as Helmwige in Die Walküre and debuted with Seattle Opera as Micaëla in Carmen and with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as the Fifth Maid in Elektra. Future plans include a return to LA Opera as Micaëla in Carmen and a debut with the Dallas Opera as Elsa in Lohengrin.

Tenor Duke Kim made his company debut in 2024 as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette. He began the current season with LA Opera as Tony in West Side Story, followed by appearances in Dresden and Rome as Roméo, in Seville as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia and in a staged production of the Mozart Requiem with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. He will return to LAO next season in the title role of Candide. Future plans also include Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera.

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PROGRAM

CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH , SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

JAMES CONLON , RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Falstaff

Libretto by Arrigo Boito after William Shakespeare’s

The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Parts I and II

CREATIVE TEAM CAST (in order of vocal appearance)

CONDUCTOR

James Conlon

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

Lee Blakeley

DIRECTOR

Shawna Lucey

SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Adrian Linford

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Pablo Santiago

CHORUS DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Jeremy Frank

FIGHT DIRECTOR

Andrew Kenneth Moss

INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Sara E. Widzer

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Ky Chassells

STAGE MANAGER

Whitney McAnally

PROMPTER

Peter Walsh ‡

MUSICAL PREPARATION

Julian Garvue †

Bryndon Hassman

Bin Yu Sanford

DR. CAIUS

SIR JOHN FALSTAFF

BARDOLPH

PISTOL

MEG PAGE

ALICE FORD

MISTRESS QUICKLY

NANNETTA

Nathan Bowles †

Craig Colclough

Yuntong Han †

Vinícius Costa †

Sarah Saturnino ‡

Nicole Heaston

Hyona Kim

Deanna Breiwick * FENTON

Anthony León ‡ FORD

Ernesto Petti *

SUPPORT

Production made possible by generous support from GRoW @ Annenberg

Andrea Pessino

Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn)

Barbara Augusta Teichert

The Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund

With special additional support from Laura and Carlton Seaver

With special appreciation to Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

Original production made possible by generous support from Leslie and John Dorman

LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

PRODUCTION NOTES

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

Supertitles written by Randall Behr. Pre-performance lectures by James Conlon. Pre-performance lectures are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.

Scenery constructed by CBS Scenic Studios, Hollywood. Additional props by Studio Sereno, Los Angeles. Costumes constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Wig Department.

* LA Opera debut

† Member of the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program

‡ Alumnus of the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program

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ACT ONE

At the Garter Inn, after a run-in with Dr. Caius, Sir John Falstaff discovers that he is running short on cash. He plans to seduce Alice Ford and Meg Page, wives of two of Windsor’s wealthiest gentlemen. His thieving sidekicks, Bardolph and Pistol, refuse to deliver his love letters. Falstaff mocks their sense of “honor.”

At Ford’s house, Alice and Meg discover that they have received identical letters from Falstaff. They decide to play a joke on him. Ford arrives with Dr. Caius, Bardolph, Pistol and young Fenton, who is in love with Ford’s daughter Nannetta. Pistol tells Ford about the knight’s plan to dishonor Alice and empty his coffers. Ford decides to go to the inn in disguise and catch Falstaff. Meanwhile, the ladies enlist Mistress Quickly to lure Falstaff into a trap. Whenever they can steal a moment, Fenton and Nannetta enjoy a clandestine kiss.

ACT TWO

Back at the inn, Quickly brings Falstaff a response from the two ladies. Both return his affections, but Alice can meet him any afternoon between two and three, while her husband is out. A “Mister Brook” (Ford in disguise) wishes to make the knight’s acquaintance. “Brook” tells Falstaff that he has fallen in love with Alice; he promises the knight money for seducing her,

explaining that if she slips once, she’ll most likely slip again. Falstaff happily accepts the challenge. Indeed, he admits, he is already well along with his own plan to cuckold Alice’s husband. Ford is stunned at his wife’s apparent infidelity.

Quickly returns to Ford’s house to tell Meg and Alice that Falstaff has taken the bait. Nannetta is in tears, for her father plans to marry her off to old Dr. Caius. Alice tells her not to worry. Servants enter with a basket of dirty laundry, while the ladies prepare their trap. Falstaff arrives and begins his seduction of Alice. The rendezvous is interrupted when Ford arrives in a jealous rage. Falstaff hides in the basket while Ford searches for him. Believing that Falstaff is hiding behind a screen, Ford throws it aside, only to discover Nannetta and Fenton kissing. Alice summons the servants to deal with the laundry. They struggle with the basket but finally manage to dump it—and Falstaff—into the Thames River.

INTERMISSION

ACT THREE

Falstaff drowns his sorrows in wine. Quickly convinces him that Alice wants to meet him at midnight in Windsor Park, but he has to come dressed as a fairytale character, the Black Huntsman. Quickly overhears Ford promising Dr. Caius that he will marry Nannetta that evening.

At the park that night, Alice plots to foil her husband’s marriage plans for Nannetta. Midnight approaches. Falstaff enters wearing antlers on his head and wrapped in a huge black cloak. His encounter with Alice is interrupted, this time by the assembled company disguised as spirits, led by Nannetta as the Queen of Fairies. They torment Falstaff and force him to repent. The conspirators unmask, and Falstaff realizes that he has been duped yet again.

Ford suggests that, to end their festivities, they celebrate the marriage of the Fairy Queen. Dr. Caius steps forward and takes the hand of the Queen. When another masked couple steps forward as well, Ford performs a double wedding. Only afterward is it revealed that the veiled Queen was Bardolph and that Fenton and Nannetta were the masked couple. Falstaff tells Ford and Caius to be good losers: “All the world’s a joke, man is born a joker, and he who laughs last laughs best.”

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

We have been telling this story wrong for centuries.

Sir John Falstaff, that magnificent, rotund monument to self-delusion, arrives in Windsor convinced that the world exists to indulge him. He is charming. He is funny. He is, without question, the opera’s most colorful figure. And he must yield center stage because Falstaff belongs to Alice Ford and Meg Page. It always has.

Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor—the play on which Verdi’s opera is built—at a precise and charged moment in English history: the 1590s, when Queen Elizabeth I had ruled for four decades and her subjects were still reckoning, uneasily, with what female authority meant. The question of whether women could govern at home, at court, over a nation was not academic. It was alive, contested, and urgent. Shakespeare understood this. Into that climate, he placed two ordinary housewives and gave them complete dominion over everyone around them.

Alice and Meg don’t merely outwit Falstaff. They design his humiliation with the precision of military strategists. They deploy the tools of their domestic world—the laundry basket, the household linens, the rituals of the hearth—as instruments of justice. Their “Feminine Jurisdiction,” as the scholar Natasha Korda has called it, is not a small or private thing. It is sovereign.

And Shakespeare makes the political stakes explicit. The final scene, with its Fairy Queen masque, draws a

direct line between the wives’ governance of their households and Elizabeth’s governance of her kingdom. The message is unmistakable: a woman who can manage a home with intelligence, strategy, and moral clarity can manage a country. Domestic leadership and political leadership are not separate categories. They are the same capacity, expressed at different scales.

Verdi, working at the end of his own extraordinary life, understood what he had in this material. His Alice is not a victim to be rescued. She is the architect of every scene she inhabits. The fugue that closes the opera, “Tutto nel mondo è burla” (“All the world’s a jest”) may bear Falstaff’s name, but it is Alice’s laughter we carry out into the night. And yet, what makes Falstaff one of the greatest characters in all of literature is this: even after his comeuppance, even stripped of his pretensions and his dignity, he remains not only mirthful but celebrates his power to inspire mirth in others. That is no small gift. May we all find such merriment in ourselves, in each other, and most of all, at the opera.

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James Conlon

CONDUCTOR

From: New York City, New York.

LA Opera: La Traviata (2006, debut); he has conducted 70 different operas and over 500 performances with the company. He has been Richard Seaver Music Director since 2006. At the end of this season, he will become Conductor Laureate.

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

Shawna Lucey DIRECTOR

From: Houston, Texas.

LA Opera: La Traviata (2024, debut); Così fan tutte (2025).

About: An acclaimed theater and opera director, Shawna Lucey has been the General Director and CEO of Opera San José since 2022. Her legacy production of Tosca launched San Francisco Opera’s 99th season in 2021, followed in 2022 by her centennial celebration groundbreaking legacy production of La Traviata. Her directorial work has been seen across the USA, at the Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, and many others. Internationally, she has staged works at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, and Schauspiel Hannover, among many others. Her productions at Opera San José include Bluebeard’s Castle and a recent double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, hailed by Operaville as “simply the most beautifully crafted version of this popular twosome that you are likely to see.” (ShawnaLucey.com; Instagram: @29flames)

Lee Blakeley

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

From: West Yorkshire, England. LA Opera: Falstaff (debut, 2013).

About: The late Lee Blakeley (1971-2017) trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. With the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, he directed the French premieres of four Sondheim musicals: Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music (with Leslie Caron) and Into the Woods. He directed The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, Madama Butterfly and The Pearl Fishers with Santa Fe Opera; The Tales of Hoffmann for Canadian Opera Company; a new musical, Jessica Walker’s Pat Kirkwood is Angry, at the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Brits Off Broadway Festival; Orfeo ed Eurydice for Minnesota Opera; and A Night at the Chinese Opera for Scottish Opera. His latest productions included Il Turco in Italia for Angers Nantes Opéra and The King and I for the Châtelet. He was made a Winston Churchill Fellow in 2007.

Adrian Linford

SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGNER

From: London, England. LA Opera: Falstaff (2013).

About: His work in the United States includes The Barber of Seville at Opera San Jose, Rigoletto and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at Santa Fe Opera, Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera and Dallas Opera, Orfeo ed Eurydice at Minnesota Opera, the world premiere of Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera and Bluebeard’s Castle for Atlanta Opera, which received the Royal Philharmonic Society Opera Award in the UK and was also presented at the International Edinburgh Festival, Beijing Musical Festival, and in New Zealand. He has also designed The Marriage of Figaro for Dublin’s Opera Theatre Company, Katya Kabanova and Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera, Nabucco and Così fan tutte for Opera West in Scotland and Orlando for Cambridge Handel Opera, and he was co-designer for Francesca Zambello’s production of Il Trovatore for the Bastille Opera in Paris. (AdrianLinford.com)

Pablo Santiago

LIGHTING DESIGNER

From: Chiapas, Mexico.

LA Opera: prism (2018, debut); The Anonymous Lover (2020); Breaking the Waves (2021); Omar (2022); Highway 1, USA (2024); The Dwarf (2024); Madama Butterfly (2024); Hildegard (2025); La Bohème (2025).

About: Pablo Santiago is an acclaimed lighting designer whose work seamlessly bridges live performance and digital film, transforming stages into immersive and emotionally resonant environments. He has worked with renowned institutions including the Kennedy Center, Teatro Municipal São Paulo, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, BAM Harvey Theater, Geffen Playhouse and the Hollywood Bowl. He has collaborated with the LA Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Pablo continues to push the boundaries of the craft, illuminating narratives that captivate and inspire audiences around the world. (PabloSantiagoDesign.com)

Andrew Kenneth Moss FIGHT DIRECTOR

From: Corning, New York.

LA Opera: 12 productions to date since his 2021 debut with Il Trovatore, including last season’s Madama Butterfly, Roméo et Juliette and Rigoletto, and this season’s West Side Story

About: Last summer, he was the fight director at Santa Fe Opera for productions of La Bohème, Rigoletto, The Turn of the Screw and Die Walküre. His credits include fight direction for Armida at the Metropolitan Opera, SAFE at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, A Little Night Music at the Huntington Theatre Company, Cold Mountain at Music Academy of the West, and productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni, I Puritani, and Greek for Boston Lyric Opera. His work for Central City Opera includes Dead Man Walking, Oklahoma, Seven Deadly Sins, Madama Butterfly, and West Side Story. New York productions include Forever Dusty for New World Stages, Pinocchio’s Ashes for Theater for a New City, and The Saint of Bleecker Street at Dicapo Opera Theatre. (AndrewKennethMoss.com)

Jeremy Frank CHORUS

DIRECTOR

From: Glendive, Montana.

LA Opera: He became Chorus Director in 2022, after working on over 75 productions as associate chorus director and/or assistant conductor. He is a coach for the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program. About: He has collaborated with major opera houses throughout the United States and has prepared operas and vocal chamber music at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, working with Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Phillipe Jordan, Grant Gershon, Barbara Hannigan and Pablo Heras-Casado. A pianist and vocal coach, he is an adjunct lecturer in vocal arts and opera at the University of Southern California. As a pianist, he has partnered with Sondra Radvanovsky, Eric Owens, Brandon Jovanovich, J’nai Bridges, Dolora Zajick, Kate Lindsey and Susan Graham. He has helped prepare the Ring cycle for Seattle Opera and has been a guest faculty member for young artist programs at Utah Opera and Seattle Opera. (JeremyMFrank.com)

Sara E. Widzer

INTIMACY DIRECTOR

From: Los Angeles, California.

LA Opera: directed The Death of Orpheus (2020); livestream director of Il Trovatore (2021); intimacy director for numerous productions including, most recently, Così fan tutte, Ainadamar, West Side Story and La Bohème

About: This season’s engagements include intimacy direction for Fellow Travelers at Seattle Opera, Cincinnati Opera, San Diego Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival. Previous intimacy direction: La Traviata (San Diego Opera), Rodrigo (Opera UCLA), La Bohème (Washington National Opera), Semele (Opera Santa Barbara), After Glow (film by Ryan McKinny). Previous stage/intimacy direction: Carla Lucero’s touch (Opera Birmingham) and JUANA (Opera UCLA), and Cabildo/ Proving Up at UC Boulder. Directing credits also include Carmen (Opera Orlando), The Flying Dutchman (Hawaii Opera Theatre, Virginia Opera) and The Music Man (Royal Opera House, Muscat). (SaraEWidzer.com)

Craig Colclough

SIR JOHN FALSTAFF

B ASS-BARITONE

From: Claremont, California.

LA Opera: Guccio in Gianni Schicchi (2008, debut); 15 roles to date including Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro (2023), Leporello in Don Giovanni (2023), Capulet in Roméo et Juliette (2024). He performs in the James Conlon Farewell Concert on April 24. He is a 2021 recipient of the Stern Artist Award. About: Verdi’s Macbeth has become a signature, serving as his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, Luxembourg Opera and, most recently, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil. He began the season as Gerhard in the world premiere of The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera. Recent highlights include Scarpia in Tosca in Seattle, Wagner’s Dutchman with Göteborg Opera, Alberich in the Ring with Tiroler Festspiele Erl and Telramund in Lohengrin at Covent Garden. He is a professor and author of Classical Voice: The Theory of Everything. (CraigColclough.com)

Ernesto Petti

FORD B ARITONE

From: Salerno, Italy.

LA Opera: debut. He also performs Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino in the James Conlon Farewell Concert this season. About: He began the season as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, followed by three Verdi roles at the Teatri di Piacenza: the title role in Rigoletto, Count di Luna in Il Trovatore, and Germont in La Traviata He then performed Rigoletto at Ópera de Oviedo and returned to Naples as Ford in Falstaff. His upcoming engagements include Amonasro in Aida at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Valentin in Faust at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Scarpia in Tosca in Atlanta, and the title role in Macbeth at the New National Theatre Tokyo. Last season, he opened the Festival Verdi in Parma as Macbeth and also appeared in the title role of Nabucco in Cologne, as Ford in Genoa, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and Tonio in Pagliacci in both Modena and Piacenza, and as Ezio in Attila in Naples.

Nicole Heaston

ALICE FORD SOPRANO

From: Chicago, Illinois.

LA Opera: Musetta in La Bohème (2007, debut); Mary in Highway 1, USA (2024). She also performs at this season’s James Conlon Farewell Concert.

About: She has appeared with opera companies throughout the world, including the

Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, Washington National Opera, Semperoper Dresden and the Glyndebourne Festival in England. This season’s appearances include Elisa in Tolomeo with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, a double bill of Down in the Valley and Highway 1, USA with Detroit Opera, Britten’s War Requiem with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, and galas with both Opera Philadelphia and Opera Roanoke. Future engagements include returns to Austin Opera in the title role of Thaïs and to both Houston Grand Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago in leading roles. (NicoleHeaston.com)

Hyona Kim

MISTRESS QUICKLY MEZZO -SOPRANO

From: Seoul, South Korea.

LA Opera: Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (2024, debut). She also performs at this season’s James Conlon Farewell Concert.

About: Lauded by The New York Times as a “vibrant and dark-toned, agile mezzosoprano,” she debuted this season as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at both the Metropolitan Opera and Irish National Opera. She also performed Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at Korea National Opera in December. Last season, she performed Suzuki with the Royal Danish Opera, Canadian Opera Company and with Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and she also made her debut with Opera Maine as Amneris in Aida, a role she covered at the Met. She made her San Francisco Opera debut in the lead role of Lady Wang in Bright Sheng’s 2016 world premiere of Dream of the Red Chamber, and reprised that role there for a revival in 2022, returning again in 2023 as Suzuki. (HyonaKim.com)

Deanna Breiwick

NANNETTA

SOPRANO

From: Salt Lake City, Utah.

LA Opera: debut. She will return as Cunegonde in Candide.

About: Earlier this season, she appeared with the Dallas Opera as Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites ; she returns in May for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Dallas Symphony, under the baton of Fabio Luisi. Recent engagements include Lisette in La Rondine at Opéra de Monte Carlo and Adele in Die Fledermaus at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Career highlights include Soeur Constance with San Francisco Opera; Adele, Nannetta and Oscar ( Un Ballo in Maschera ) with Bayerische Staatsoper; Drusilla ( The Coronation of Poppea ) at Gran Teatre del Liceu; Cunegonde in Candide with Atlanta Opera; and Metropolitan Opera appearances in Thaïs , Parsifal , Marnie , and Ariadne auf Naxos . She has performed Marzelline ( Fidelio ), Dorinda ( Orlando ) and Carolina ( Il Matrimonio Segreto ) with Opernhaus Zürich. (DeannaBreiwick.com)

Sarah Saturnino

MEG PAGE

MEZZO -SOPRANO

From: Grass Valley, California. LA Opera: Her many company appearances include Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia (2023); Emilia in Otello (2023, mainstage debut), Flora in La Traviata (2024) and Maddalena in Rigoletto (2025). She also performs Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino in the James Conlon Farewell Concert this season. She was a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program (2022-24). About: A 2023 winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition, she will make her mainstage Met debut as Wowkle in The Girl of the Golden West in 2027 In 2025, she made her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre at the Santa Fe Opera. She will reprise Fricka in May with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she recently performed Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. She will make her role debut as Amneris in Aida at Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Recent highlights include the title role of Carmen with Opera Santa Barbara. (SarahSaturnino.com)

Anthony León

FENTON TENOR

From: Riverside, California. LA Opera: Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor (2022, debut); roles including Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (2023) and Ferrando in Così fan tutte (2025). He is an alumnus of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program (2022-24) and a 2025 winner of the Stern Artist Award. About: He was a 2023 grand finals winner of the Met’s Laffont Competition and 2022 first place winner of Operalia. His appearances this season include debuts with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, with Teatro Regio Torino and the Glyndebourne Festival as Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio, and with Washington Concert Opera as Nadir in The Pearl Fishers, a role he recently performed with Berlin’s Staatsoper under den Linden He also performs Antonio Estévez’s Cantata Criolla with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic. Next season, he will debut with the Dallas Opera as Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore. (AnthonyLeonTenor.com)

Nathan Bowles

DR. CAIUS TENOR

From: Minot, North Dakota.

LA Opera: Benvolio in Roméo et Juliette (2024, debut); Bullfighter in Ainadamar (2025); Borsa in Rigoletto (2025); Parpignol in La Bohème (2025). He also appears in the James Conlon Farewell Concert. He will return as the First Armored Man in The Magic Flute and, next season, as Ismaele in Nabucco. He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program last season. About: This summer, he will make his role debut as Siegmund in Die Walküre with the Taiwan Philharmonic. Highlights of future seasons include an engagement with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. He was a 2024 national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition, a 2025 finalist at Operalia, and a recipient of the 2024 Richard F. Gold Career Grant. Last year, he performed Canio in Pagliacci with Pacific Opera Project and Don José in The Tragedy of Carmen with Tulsa Opera. (NathanBowlesTenor.com)

Yuntong Han

BARDOLPH

From: Shenyang, China.

TENOR

LA Opera: Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette (2025, debut); High Priest of Amon in Akhnaten (2026). He also appears in the James Conlon Farewell Concert. He joined the DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program last season.

About: He began the current season covering the role of the Jade Emperor in Huang Ruo’s The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera. He was a 2023 national grand finalist in the Met’s Laffont Competition. He graduated from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and completed his undergraduate study at New England Conservatory. His roles include Roméo, Tamino in The Magic Flute, Ruggero in La Rondine, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, Rodolfo in La Bohème and Lucano in The Coronation of Poppea. He has been a vocal fellow at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Vinícius Costa

PISTOL B ASS

From: São Paulo, Brazil.

LA Opera: Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly (2024, debut); Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette (2024); Jose Tripaldi in Ainadamar (2025); Aye in Akhnaten (2026). He also appears in the James Conlon Farewell Concert. He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program last season. About: This summer, he will perform Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette as a Gaddes Festival Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. He performs two roles in a recently released recording of Brazilian composer André Mehmari’s 2023 opera O Machete. He has been a Reneé Fleming Fellow with Aspen Opera Theater, where he performed Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro and appeared in Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto, and he also participated in the Reneé Fleming Song Studio at Carnegie Hall. He has performed with Theater Basel and Bühne Bern in Switzerland and Teatro São Pedro, Teatro Municipal de São Paulo and Sala São Paulo in Brazil.

LA OPERA CHORUS

SOPRANO

Christina Borgioli*

Alannah Garnier

Karen Hogle-Brown

Stephanie Jones

Elizabeth Lee

ALTO

Elizabeth Anderson

Natalie Beck***

Danielle Marcelle Bond

Molly Burnside

Sara Campbell*

TENOR

James Callon

Christopher Craig

Omar Crook*

Adam Faruqi

Sung Bong Kim

Charles Lane**

BASS

Tim Campbell

Abdiel González*

James Hayden

Mark Kelley**

David Kress**

Lori Stinson*

Courtney Taylor*

Janet Todd Sunjoo Yeo*

Ella Yewon Yoon

Veronica Christenson**

Kelly Krantz*

Adriana Manfredi

Jessie Schulman

Bonnie Snell Schindler*

JJ Lopez

Francis Lucaric**

Sal Malaki***

Todd Strange*

Daniel Suk

E. Scott Levin

Connor Licharz

Gabriel Manro*

Steve Pence*

James Martin Schaefer*

* Has appeared in 50 or more productions

** Has appeared in 100 or more productions

*** Has appeared in 150 or more productions

SUPERNUMERARIES

Ryan Benson

Jeff Cook*

Tony Cronin (Innkeeper)

Tucker Futrell

Dane Halvorson

Slim Khezri

Howard Morales

Sean Wrinkle

* Has appeared in 25 or more productions

CHILD SUPERNUMERARIES

Enzo Ma

Anastasia Michel

Violette Michel

Osgood Shelby-Szyzsko

Schroeder Shelby-Szysko (Robin, Falstaff's page)

Bellami Smith

Koa Spiegel-Shaw

Ean Sun

LA OPERA ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLIN

Alyssa Park STUART CANIN CONCERTMASTER

Armen Anassian

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Lisa Sutton

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Cheryl Norman

Olivia Tsui

Beau Henson

Katie Sloan

Heather Powell

Radu Pieptia

Adam Millstein

Erica UzCa

Myroslava Khomik

SECOND VIOLIN

Ana Landauer PRINCIPAL

Grace Oh

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Florence Titmus

Leslie Katz

Michele Kikuchi

Cynthia Moussas

Loránd Lokuszta

Haesol Lee

Ina Veli

Irina Voloshina

VIOLA

Erik Rynearson PRINCIPAL

Evan Antes

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Peng Jing

Kate Vincent

Aaron Oltman

Diana Wade

Linnea Powell

Carrie Holzman-Little

CELLO

Rowena Hammill PRINCIPAL

Michael Kaufman

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Dane Little

Helen Altenbach

Nadine Hall

Trevor Handy

BASS

Nathan Farrington PRINCIPAL

Evan Hillis

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Frances Liu Wu

Zach Hislop

Timothy Eckert

FLUTE

Heather Clark PRINCIPAL

Angela Wiegand

Sarah Weisz, piccolo

OBOE

Leslie Reed PRINCIPAL

Jennifer Cullinan, English horn

CLARINET

Stuart Clark PRINCIPAL

Donald Foster, bass clarinet

BASSOON

William May PRINCIPAL

William Wood

HORN

Steven Becknell PRINCIPAL

Daniel Kelley

Jenny Kim

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Aija Mattson-Jovel

generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

TRUMPET

Ryan Darke PRINCIPAL

David Washburn

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Bryce Schmidt

TROMBONE

William Booth PRINCIPAL

Alvin Veeh

Terry Cravens

Todd Eames, bass trombone

GUITAR

Paul Viapiano PRINCIPAL

HARP

JoAnn Turovsky PRINCIPAL

TIMPANI

Gregory Goodall PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION

Theresa Dimond PRINCIPAL

John Wakefield

Melisandra Dunker MUSIC LIBRARIAN

Brady Steel

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Stuart Canin

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

PRODUCTION STAFF

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

Azra King-Abadi

SUPERTITLE PREPARATION / CUER

Linda Zoolalian

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS

Danielle Brewbaker

Arturo Fernandez, Jr.

Miranda Wilson

STUDIO TEACHER

Marie Wilson-Rogers

COSTUME SHOP

Lindsey Ellison Aries Limon

Robbie Monsod

JoEllen Skinner

Clara Weidman

CUTTER/DRAPERS

Alexandra Babec

Adle Smithson

Haley Williams FIRST HANDS

Stephanie Castro

Alex de la Huerta

Melissa Meza

Blanca Miranda

Carmen Muñoz

Johanne Piantieri

Arielle Walker

Anna Wong SEAMSTERS

Wing Cheung MASTER TAILOR

Kelvin Small, Jr. TAILOR

Dahlia Gonzalez

Nicholas Uccan

CRAFTSPERSONS

Emily Frank

Miranda Orellana PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS

Rhiannon Smith SENIOR COSTUME ASSISTANT

Emma Van Horn COSTUME ASSISTANT

Jacqueline Colindres Paz

Gwyneva Rosales

Alexis Sarabia PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

WARDROBE

Lee Smilek HEAD OF WARDROBE

Mary Basile

Charlyn Trenier

WARDROBE ASSISTANTS

Samantha Corn

Charlie Fleiss

Shelley Graves-Jimenez

Mary Lehman

Glen Moore

Tyrell Pickett

SEASONAL DRESSERS

WIGS AND MAKE-UP

Maggie Clark INTERIM WIGMASTER

Kelso Millett

INTERIM ASSOCIATE WIGMASTER

Brandi Strona

DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR & CREW FOREMAN

Nicole Rodrigues SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTIST

Nathalie Eidt SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTIST

Angela Santori WIG & MAKE-UP ARTIST

Darlene Sixtos LEAD STYLIST

STAGE CREW

Scott Papez OPERA HEAD CARPENTER

Robert Colby Klein OPERA HEAD ELECTRICIAN

David Salas OPERA ASSISTANT CARPENTER

Alerton Perez OPERA ASSISTANT ELECTRICIAN

Scott Shepherd OPERA HEAD OF PROPERTIES

Heather Orozco OPERA HEAD AUDIO

Kelly Richard Travis OPERA HEAD VIDEO

Brad Cobb OPERA AUDIO ENGINEER

DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION HOUSE STAFF

Timothy L. Conroy HOUSE HEAD CARPENTER

Ryan Lebetsamer HOUSE HEAD ELECTRICIAN

Scott Shepherd INTERIM HOUSE HEAD OF PROPERTIES

Heather Orozco HOUSE HEAD AUDIO

Robert Devis HOUSE MANAGER

Demetra Willis HEAD USHER

Carolyn Van Brunt VICE PRESIDENT OF GUEST SERVICES

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

THE DOMINGO-COLBURN- STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

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

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

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

2025/26 PARTICIPANTS

Nathan Bowles TENOR

Sujin Choi

PIANIST/COACH

Vinícius Costa BASS

Emily Damasco SOPRANO

Julian Garvue PIANIST/COACH

Yuntong Han TENOR

Hyungjin Son BARITONE

Katie Trigg

MEZZO-SOPRANO

Gabrielle Turgeon SOPRANO

Gabrielė Žemaitytė PIANIST/COACH

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

Christopher Koelsch

SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

James Conlon

RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR

John P. Nuckols

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF STRATEGIC OFFICER

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

Jill Boyd

VICE PRESIDENT, LABOR RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Rupert Hemmings VICE PRESIDENT, ARTISTIC PLANNING

Andréa Fuentes, Ed.D. VICE PRESIDENT, CONNECTS

Kathleen Ruiz VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Domingo Hindoyan MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE

Lina González-Granados RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

Jeremy Frank CHORUS DIRECTOR

Renée Fleming ADVISOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS

Susan Graham ARTISTIC ADVISOR, YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Paul Hopper SENIOR DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC PLANNING

ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION

Nicki Harper DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Whitney McAnally PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Blair Salter HEAD COACH, YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Jasna Gara MANAGER, ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION OPERATIONS

Maya Ordóñez MANAGER, ARTISTIC PROGRAMS AND REHEARSAL

Scarleth Arias ARTISTIC OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

BOX OFFICE

Shane K. Morton BOX OFFICE TREASURER

Shawnet Sweets

Brenda Roman FIRST ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Joseph Howells

Andy Phu

Joseph Selway

Andrew Tomasulo

Susan Wong

SECOND ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Kiana Culpepper

Lizania Mancia

THIRD ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Steven Phu

Steven Tran

Robert Morrison

Gaspar Vargas Guendulain

TICKET SELLERS

CONNECTS

Adam LeBow

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING

Natalie Ramirez

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Jake Ryan Lindsey

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

Tate Shoebridge

PROGRAM MANAGER

Julia Santha

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Kirsten Anderson

COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

Bene’t Benton

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE

Gina Young

OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

Eli Villanueva

RESIDENT STAGE DIRECTOR

COSTUMES

Jeannique Prospere COSTUME DIRECTOR

Andrealisse Lopez FINANCE AND OPERATIONS MANAGER

Brittani Seach

PRODUCTION, STOCK & RENTAL SUPERVISOR

Manuel Garcia

WAREHOUSE MANAGER

Neal Anderson

MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATE

John Musselman

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

DEVELOPMENT

Josh Harrold

DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS

Janneke Straub

DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP GIFTS

Robin Green

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND OFFICE MANAGER

Kellynn Meeks

SENIOR BOARD AND EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR

Zade Dardari ANNUAL FUND SPECIALIST

Joy Smythe-Macaulay ANNUAL FUND COORDINATOR

INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Benji Railton-Ashe DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Christian Johnsten

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR AND PLANNED GIFTS

Katherine Miranda

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MAJOR GIFTS

Evangeline Santos

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Tim Stephenson

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Kylie Smith

PROSPECT RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Claudia Giugni

DONOR STEWARDSHIP SPECIALIST

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Joslyn Treece

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

Francesca Cloete INSTITUTIONAL GIVING SPECIALIST

SPECIAL EVENTS

Lauren McLaughlin

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS

Caitlin Harper EVENTS DESIGN MANAGER

FINANCE

Deborah Gould CONTROLLER

Peter Pendergest DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING

Jing Hu ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Daisy Lopez PAYROLL MANAGER

Brian Stefanko ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER

Rowena Matibag-Potter SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

HUMAN RESOURCES

Esmeralda Marroquin SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATOR

MUSIC ADMINISTRATION

Melisandra Dunker MUSIC LIBRARIAN

Brady Steel ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Ignazio Terrasi MUSICAL ASSISTANT TO JAMES CONLON

Josephine Lee ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Marlene Meraz DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Mark Lyons ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS

Rosario Diaz SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Daniel Calderon CONTENT MEDIA SPECIALIST

SALES AND MARKETING

Caitlin Carlson CREATIVE CONTENT DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Galvan ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LOYALTY MARKETING

Pauline Hwa

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ACQUISITION MARKETING

Keith J. Rainville

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, BRAND & DESIGN

Terrance Lovecraft INTERACTIVE & GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Yesenia Vargas

MARKETING STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Victoria Rey

MARKETING OPERATIONS AND EVENT SPECIALIST

TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT

Jeff Kleeman TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Carolina Angulo

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL DESIGNER

Margie Schnibbe

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATION

Stephanie Santiago

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL OPERATIONS AND OFF GRAND PRODUCTION

Lisa Coto

PROPERTIES COORDINATOR

James Pomichter

PRODUCTION MEDIA MANAGER

Natalie Ferguson TECHNICAL DESIGN COORDINATOR

Damon Schindler

RESIDENT LEAD SCENIC ARTIST

Chris Carey

TECHNICAL PAYROLL OFFICER

Dani Monterroso

TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

Jennifer Gonzalez

Deborah Gutierrez

WALLY RUSSELL LIGHTING INTERNS

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Nathan Hamill

INTERIM DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Tommy Mam

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES MANAGER

Michael Masuda

NETWORK MANAGER

Jordan Tan

SYSTEMS & NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

Alex Badali

Brian Urrutia APPLICATIONS ADMINISTRATORS

ACADEMY INTERNS

Diego Castro Arielle Escareno

Elise Fukuda

Cornelio Garcia

CONSULTANTS

Stephen King

Alan Munoz

Sofia Padilla Elisa Raya Bejay Villanueva

HEAD OF VOCAL INSTRUCTION, DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG

ARTIST PROGRAM

Paul Curran

HEAD OF DRAMATIC STUDIES, DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG

ARTIST PROGRAM

Studio Fuse

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Marlinda Menashe

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT

Patricia McLeod

CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT

30th Anniversary Angels

MARC STERN, CHAIR

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

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

GRoW @ Annenberg

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Colburn Foundation

County of Los Angeles

Dunard Fund USA

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

The Blue Ribbon

Ana and Robert Cook

Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

The Alexander Furlotti Foundation

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Peter and Diane Gray

The Green Foundation

Margo Leavin

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Gordon Getty

The Lenore S. and Bernard A.

Greenberg Fund

Carol and Warner Henry Terri and Jerry Kohl

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation

Nanette and Keith Leonard LGHG Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Dan Murphy Foundation

The Okun Family, in memory of

Milton Okun

Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

Andrea Pessino

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Suzanne Rheinstein, in honor of Fred Rheinstein

25th Anniversary Angels

Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate

Ronus Foundation

The Seaver Family

Marilyn Ziering

Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr., Trust

Ariane and Lionel Sauvage

David and Linda Shaheen

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ann Ziff

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

MARC STERN, CHAIR

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

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle MuscoThe Seaver Family

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

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

Annenberg Foundation

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

The Blue Ribbon

Alex Bouzari

Robert Day

Dunard Fund USA

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

Gordon Getty

Carol and Warner Henry

Alfred and Claude Mann

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

The Green Foundation

Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, in honor of Leonard Green

LGHG Foundation

Rosemary and Milton Okun

The Milan Panic Family

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

20th Anniversary Angels

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Flora L. Thornton

Marilyn Ziering

Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Ronus Foundation

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ziering Family Foundation

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

MARC STERN, CHAIR

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

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

Carol and Warner Henry

Alfred and Claude Mann

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Flora L. Thornton

Marilyn Ziering

20th Anniversary Angels (continued)

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

Annenberg Foundation

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

Yuki and Alex Bouzari

Nancy Daly

Edgar Foster Daniels

Kelly and Robert Day

Leslie and John Dorman

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

The Green Foundation

Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, in honor of Leonard Green

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E.

Levine Family Foundation

LGHG Foundation

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

Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic

Domingo’s Angels

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn)

Barbara Augusta Teichert

The Joop van den Ende Foundation

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ziering Family Foundation

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

MARC STERN, CHAIR

MARY HAYLEY, CO-CHAIR

WARNER HENRY, CO-CHAIR

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

Robert V. Adams and Barbara Abercrombie

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter Colburn Foundation

Kelly and Robert Day

Marta and Plácido Domingo

Leslie and John Dorman

The Green Foundation

Lenore and Bernard Greenberg

Carol and Warner Henry

Walter Lantz Foundation / Edward A. Landry, Trustee

Rosemary and Milton Okun

Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic

Founding Angels

Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

The Skirball Foundation

Flora L. Thornton Foundation

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

WARNER HENRY, CHAIR

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

Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Ash

Dorothy Collins Brown

Mr. Richard D. Colburn

The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation

Forman Family Foundation

Gordon Getty

The Emese and Leonard Green Foundation

Carol and Warner Henry

Opera League of Los Angeles

Artistic Excellence Circle

Richard Seaver

The Skirball Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Straus

Flora L. Thornton Foundation

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

PREMIER DIAMOND PATRON ($500,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

The Ahmanson Foundation

GRoW @ Annenberg

Herbert Berk Estate

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Colburn Foundation

Cosgrove Family Trust

Dunard Fund USA

Valerie Franklin Estate

Gemini Industries, Inc.

Gordon Getty

Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg

Opera Fund

Carol and Warner Henry

Joan H. Hotchkis Fund, in honor of

Joan and John Hotchkis

Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Margo Leavin

Nanette and Keith Leonard

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Kathryn Barger

Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Chris and Dick Newman

The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund

(Tara Colburn)

Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

Andrea Pessino

Estate of Cat Pollon

Suzanne and Fred Rheinstein

Ronus Foundation

The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Ms. Barbara Augusta Teichert

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Gregory and Régina Weingarten

Marilyn Ziering

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley /

Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

Artistic Excellence Circle (continued)

DIAMOND PATRON ($250,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

Estate of Lea Danberg

Leslie and John Dorman

Penelope Foley

The Green Foundation

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation

Dan Murphy Foundation

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Ariane and Lionel Sauvage

PREMIER PLATINUM PATRON ($150,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (3)

The Armenian Consortium

Patricia Artigas and Lucas Etchegaray

The Blue Ribbon

Ana and Robert Cook

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, M.D.

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

James Mulally Peake Ranch

Michele and Dudley Rauch / The Rauch Family Foundation

PLATINUM PATRON ($100,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (3)

Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing

Jules Brenner Trust

Barbara Burtin

Margaret Sheehy Collins

Estate of Edgar Foster Daniels

De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

Manuel Gutierrez, in memory of George Sponhaltz

Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera

THE OPERA COUNCIL

Freya and Mark Ivener

Richard Kendall and Lisa See

Lawrence A. Kern

LGHG Foundation, in memory of

Louise Garland

L.L. Foundation for Youth

Patty and Ken McKenna

The Music Man Foundation

David Niemetz and Noriko Tachibana

The Opera League of Los Angeles

The David and Linda Shaheen Foundation

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP

Marie H. Song

Ann Ziff

Barry and Nancy Sanders

David Sanders Living Trust

Laura and Carlton Seaver

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Christopher V. Walker

Scott Watt Family

Dr. Heinrich and Barbara Schelbert

Susan R. Shapiro

Thurmond Smithgall

Alan and Janet Stanford

Ellen and Arnold Zetcher

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

Jane D. Zimmerman Trust

Chaired by Paul and Catherine Tosetti

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

GRAND GOLD PATRON ($75,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (2)

Dr. Robert Adler and Alexis Deutsch-Adler

Mr. James Asperger and Ms. Christine Adams

Mr. Haig S. Bagerdjian

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

Kathleen and Jerrold Eberhardt

GRAND GOLD PATRON ($50,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (2)

Ahsan Aijaz

Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation

Raffaella Belanich

Paul and Marie-France Bloch Fund at The Miami Foundation

Lynn A. Booth and Kent Kresa

The Otis Booth Foundation

Maynard and Linda Brittan

Janet and Nicholas Ciriello

Family of Ginger Conrad

Charlotte Coulombe and Stuart Schoenmann

Mark H. Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell

Michael and Jane Eisner

Diane and Peter Gray

Rian Johnson

Monique and Jonathan Kagan

Susan Lord and Scott Richard Lord

Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Linda Pierce

Geoff Emery

Annette Ermshar and Dan Monahan

Mr. Robert Finnerty and Mr. Richard Cullen

Ms. Janet Jones

Travis and Thomas Kranz

Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann

Robert Leevan and Elaine Glickman

Renee and Meyer Luskin / Scope Industries

Linda May and Jack Suzar

The Rafael and Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation

Jennifer and Mark McCormick

Anthony and Olivia Neece

OPERA America/Opera Fund

Dr. Leslie A. Pam and Dr. Ann Christie

Petersen / Esper A. Petersen Foundation

Caroline and Andrew Randall, in memory of Ann Ronus

Michelle Rohé

South Coast Plaza

John and Gill Wagner

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

Mrs. Rita Coveney Pudenz

Wendy and Ken Ruby

George and Terry Schreyer

Tina L. Segel

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Seidel

Dr. Vina Spiehler

Jay and Deanie Stein

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Stein

James and Ellen Strauss

Mrs. Laney G. Techentin

Warren and Mimi Techentin

Kyle Thorpe

Paul and Catherine Tosetti

Brigitta B. Troy

Estate of Monica Weil and Paul Schrade

Joakim Zetterberg and Fredrik Malmberg

THE OPERA COUNCIL

GOLD PATRON ($25,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (6)

Gregory A. Adams

Maria Altmann; in memory of Fritz Altmann

Emily Arms and Steven Johnson

Ruth Bachofner

Shirley Barasch Family Trust

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

Thomas and Judith Beckmen

Beverly Hills Porsche

Hans and Dianne Bozler

Warren Breslow and Gail Buchalter

Drs. Maryam and Iman H. Brivanlou

Allen Briskin and Gerry Hinkley

Mrs. Michele Brustin

Marlene Schall Chávez, Ph.D.

Edward E. and Alicia Garcia Clark

Mrs. Mary Ellen Clark and Mr. Thayne Clark

Claytor Family Foundation

Ginger Conrad

Drs. Nazareth and Ani Darakjian

John and Gina Despres

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman / Pacific

Theatres Foundation

Michael Dreyer

Linda L. Duttenhaver

Dr. and Mrs. William M. Duxler

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Eisenberg

PATRONS OF LA OPERA

Shaudi and Sean Fulp

Mr. Alex Furlotti

Catherine and Andrew Garroni

Kiki and David Gindler

In memory of Sally Goldstein

David and Sandy Gordon

Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Gary Gugelchuk

In memory of Morris A. Hazan

Catherine and Mark Helm

HUB International Insurance Brokers

Mr. and Mrs. David K. Ingalls

Tim Johnson and Jean Cunningham

Richard and Randi Jones

James P. Kelley and Joseph W. Lund

William and Priscilla Kennedy

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles

Maddocks Brown Foundation

G. Lorenzo Manzanarez

Merrill Private Wealth Management

J.H.B. Kean and Toby E. Mayman

Mr. and Mrs. David Mgrublian

Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Mollura, Sr.

Eduard Morf

Lyn Nishimura

Orange County Opera

The Orden, Berkett, Flesh and Sassover Families

The Stephen Philibosian Foundation

The Louis & Harold Price Foundation

Koni and Geoff Rich

Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Jutta Romero

Mimi Rotter

Matthew and Jennifer Rowland

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders‡

Edward A. and Ai O. Shay Family Foundation

Carol and James Sterling

Dwight Stuart Youth Fund

Richard and Cynthia Troop

Donna Wagner

In memory of Richard and Lenore Wayne

Libby Wilson, M.D.

Andrew Xu and Timothy Iverson

Zev Yaroslavsky

Tamsen Z

Esther and Abe Zarem

Ms. Marion Zola

Chaired by Kathleen and Jerrold Eberhardt

Patrons of LA Opera, who contribute gifts of $3,500 or more, enjoy exclusive ticket services, benefits and activities to enhance their opera experience. For more information, please call 213.972.7655.

GRAND SILVER BENEFACTOR ($20,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

John and Linda Kay Abdulian

Constance Chesnut and Dr. Sheldon Benjamin

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cannon

Susan and L. David Cole

Diane Henderson

Jan Keller

Jennifer L. Keller

Lenny‡ and David Kelton

Gila Michael

Judith S. Mishkin

The Recording Industries’ Music Performance Trust Fund

The SahanDaywi Foundation

PREMIER SILVER BENEFACTOR ($15,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

Mrs. Any Yakoub-Barr and Mr. Michael Barr

Diana Buckhantz and the Vladimir & Araxia

Buckhantz Foundation

The Sirpuhe and John Conte Foundation

Laura Donnelley and the Good Works Foundation

Chaz Hammel-Smith Ebert

Mr. and Mrs. David Elmore

Dr. Ronald Gabriel

Mr. Vigen and Dr. Houry Ghazarian

SILVER BENEFACTOR ($10,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (8)

Mr. Sam Abbott and Ms. Kori Anderson

Adams/Cohen Family

Adar Family Trust

Rachel and Bulent Altan

Patti Amstutz

Linda Antonioli, in loving memory of Kenny Antonioli

Margaret Campbell Arvey

Esther M. Baird and Stanley Fimberg

Beverly and Felix Grossman

Monica Gutierrez-Roper and Trevor Roper

Alma Guzman and Susan Stamberger

Nicolas Hamatake

Linda Joyce Hodge

Chase Hodge-Brokenburr

Barbara Holman

Keller Anderle LLP

Michael and Stephanie Landes

Mr. Mark Loewen

Jill C. Baldauf and Steven L. Grossman

Sandy Behrens

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Beim

Beatrice and Paul Bennett

Leah S. and Gregory M. Bergman

Nancy Berman and Alan Bloch

Robert Bienstock and Talie Massoli

Anne Boundy

Carol Bramont and David Chesley

Lisa Bratkovich

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Sawchuk

Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation

Terry and Dennis Stanfill

Karen and William Timberlake

Michael Weber and Frances Spivy-Weber

Anita Lorber

Emily and Sam Mann

Carol Mitchell

The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

Evy and Fred Scholder Family

Dr. Elizabeth Short and Dr. Michael Friedman

Eric L. Small

Bette I. Tatge and Lisa E. Tatge

Canyon Partners, LLC

Victor Carabello, M.D.; in honor of my beloved parents Oscar and Elisa

Laurel K. Clark

V. Shannon and Pamela Clyne

Corinna Cotsen and Lee N. Rosenbaum

Myron and Margie Crain

Elizabeth Hofert Dailey Fund

Dain Torpy/Tim Pecci

Patrick Dickey

The Music Center Foundation was established in 1973 by Dorothy Bu um Chandler to provide endowment support to The Music Center, its educational activities, dance programs, and its four Resident Companies: Center Theatre Group, LA Master Chorale, LA Opera, and LA Philharmonic. By making a gift through the Foundation, you can support performances that thread our community together.

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

PATRONS OF LA OPERA

SILVER BENEFACTOR ($10,000 & ABOVE)

Jennifer Diener

Tom Dolby

David A. Drummond

Susan and John Ebey

Ms. Gail Eichenthal

Danielle Nelson Erem and Vivian Nelson

David and Marianna Fisher

Alan J. Freeman

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation

Carol Goldsmith

Charles and Marian Goldsmith

J. Ira and Nicki Harris Foundation

Betty Hayman

Robert and Denise Hayman

Marie O. Hedlund

Freddi and Dr. Kenneth D. Hill

Hoebich Family Charitable Foundation

Patricia Houston; in loving memory of Chet Houston

Dr. Ronald Hopkins

Stuart and Simone Isen

Stella Jeong and Randall Lee

Ms. Ratna Jones

Kaiser Permanente

Nancy Katayama

Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.

Renee Kumetz

L.A. Care Health Plan

C. Deborah Laughton; in memory of Charles (Terry) Hendrix

GRAND BENEFACTOR ($7,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (3)

Jerome M. Applebaum

Gary and Johanna Brown

Nicholas Chrisos

Cecelia Cole

Ms. Sheila Coop

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

Michele M. Crahan

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

Larry Layne and Sheelagh Boyd

Edward and Marie Lewis

June and Simon K.C. Li

Leonard M. Lipman Charitable Fund

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Lippman

Sam Losh and Judith Lovely

Hon. Nora M. Manella

Judy and Steve McDonald

Diane Hickingbotham McNabb

Marlane Meyer

Mr. Richard J. Meyer

Mrs. Synne Hansen Miller

Ms. Judy Miner

Mintz

Cindy Miscikowski

Nancy-Gene W. Morrison

Harry and Cheryl Nadjarian

Barbara and Norman S. Namerow

Gregory Nava and Barbara Martinez Jitner

Michael Nohaile and Kristin Yarema

Andrea Noravian and Constantinos Michaels

Carolyn R. Novin

Hermineh Pakhanians

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

Thomas Patrick and Stephen Rulo

John S. Perkins

Gary and Arsine Phillips

Ernest and Anne Prokopovych

Ali Razi and Shelley Reid

The Esther Foundation

Dr. Jon Fellows and Judith Hemenway

Nancy Fleischer and Libby Wilson, M.D., in honor of Ida and Max Fleischer

Larry and Marlis Gilman

Catherine Hogel

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Landry

Mrs. Isabel Markovits-Rosenberg

James and Grace McAdams

PREMIER BENEFACTOR ($5,000 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (9)

Anthony and Lucinda Alden

David Alden and Dina Al-Sabah

Honey Kessler Amado

The Maurice Amado Foundation

The Amphion Foundation, Inc.

Anne Andrews and John Thornton

Armenian Missionary Association of America, Inc.

Frank & Beverly Arnstein

Ms. Sunny Baey

Mr. Miles L. Bennickes

William Blair

Employees Community Fund of Boeing

Bonnie Brae

Brian P. Brooks

Michael and Tania Cahill

Todd L. Calvin

Evelyn and Stephen Cederbaum

Laura K. Christa

Marie M. Cohen and Jared Diamond

Rhoda Coleman, in loving memory of

Howard Coleman

James and Jennifer Conlon

Patrick Conn

Walter and Donna Conn

Joan and Donald Damask

Ms. Joanne Dallas Davis/Dauray Family Fund

Jack and Barbara Dawson

Mr. Miguel Duran

Susan Edelstein

Helen Funai Erickson

Paul A. Erskine Family Fund

Dr. Randall T. Espinoza

John Farrell and Corey Spivey

Evelyn & Norman Feintech Family Foundation

Theodore Finney Hill

Mr. and Mrs. Don Erik Franzen

Elisabeth and Tony Freinberg

Ronald Frydman

Ronald and Christina Gertz

Goldman Sachs & Co.

Dr. Patricia Goldring

Patrick and Mary Goshtigian

Lori Greene Gordon

Terry Greene

Wendy and Luis Guerrero

Manuel R. Gutierrez

Jeff and Yolanda Heller

Claire and Robert Heron

Dr. Ann M. Hirsch and Dr. Stefan J. Kirchanski

David L. and Susan H. Hirsch

In Sook Hong

Douglas Honig, Esq.

Cameron Hotchkis

Dr. Judith Hyman

Ms. Marsha Hymanson

Mr. Daniel J. Jaffe and Ms. Cynthia S. Monaco

Bruce Johansen

Elizabeth and Nicandro Juárez

Alan and Amy Karbelnig

Mr. Howard B. Klein

Mr. David Knapp and Mrs. Nicole Hendrix-Knapp

Rodrigo J. Rocha, M.D.; in memory of my beloved parents

Lars Roos and Dr. Estelita Calica Roos

Mrs. Barbara C. Rosenthal

The family of Dr. Armin and Barbara Sadoff

Sakana Foundation

Amy and Andy Schwartz

Dr. Sharron L. Seal and Mr. Lawrence Seal

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Dr. Bertrand and Joan C. Shapiro

Charles Souw, in loving memory of Bill Maldonado

Mr. Burnie Sparks; in memory of Warner Henry

Catherine Stone

Dr. I. Maribel Taussig

Michael and Suzanne Tennenbaum

Elinor and Rubin Turner

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ulman

Nancy Valentine

Frank Visco

Dennis Wasser and Ruth Roberts

Drs. Francine Bartfield and Martin Wasserman

Mark A. Weaver

Aviva Weiner and Paulino Fontes

Sheila and Wally Weisman

Doris Weitz and Alexander Williams

Robert E. Willett

Wendy and Jay Wintrob

Susan Zolla; in memory of Edward M. Zolla

Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Muthen

Doerthe Obert

Cliff and Toni Reston

Robert and Linda Smith

Tracy Stone and Allen Anderson

James and Robin Walther

Marty, Sara and Samantha Widzer

Ellen and Harvey Knell

Mr. Joel and Mrs. Sharon Koppelman

Jerry and Adina Kraim

Elaine F. Kramer

Mr. Edward Lai

Sherry Lansing and William Friedkin

Christine and Jay Lee

Mr. Leonard Levine and Dr. Mateo Ledezma

Marilyn Lightner

Michael Lindsay and Kaitlyn Lindsay

Clark and Karen Linstone

Lilly Fong Liu

Dr. Liana Lucaric Boghossian

Mr. Nigel Lythgoe

Gerrie Maloof

John and Jill Manly

Tracey Alden Martin

Laura Maslon

Edeltraud McCarthy

Steven D. McGinty

Bo Mills

Mr. Shannon J. Morton

Moss Adams LLP

Diane Williams Murphy

Lois A. Murphy

Dr. and Mrs. Steven Nagelberg

The E. Nakamichi Foundation

David Drew Neer, M.D., J.D.

Ms. Michelle Newberry

Frank and Andrea Newman

Mrs. Inna Ockelmann

PATRONS OF LA OPERA

PREMIER BENEFACTOR ($5,000 AND ABOVE)

Christine Marie Ofiesh

Jenny Okun and Richard Sparks

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Oppenheimer

William and Carol Ouchi

Park Bixby Tower, Inc.

Diane and David Paul

Mary E. Petit and Eleanor Torres

Frank and Betty Pinkerton

Drs. Michael and Marion Quinn

Madeline and Bruce Ramer

Sonia Randazzo and Family

Penny and Harold B. Ray

Eileen and Charles Read

Marina Rinaldi

Ms. Margaret Rose, in memory of Ronald Dolkart

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Rountree

BENEFACTOR ($3,500 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (5)

In memory of Dr. Yoshio Akiyama

Patrick Anderson and Ron Koren

Mr. Robert C. Anderson

Ron and Perky Apperson

Shirley Ashkenas; in memory of Irving Ashkenas

Aversa Foundation

David Baltimore and Alice Huang

Howard Barmazel

Stephanie J. Barron

Randall C. Bassett

Shelley and Rick Bayer

Minoo Behboody

John R. Benfield and Mary Ann Shaw

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bennion

Dr. Dietmar P. Berger

Susan and Jeffrey Berman

Leigh Lindsey and Andrew Blaine

Judith F. Blumenthal

Mr. William J. Bracken and Ms. Mary Jo Markey

Langley B. Brandt

Barbara and Richard Braun

Dr. Martin J. Brickman

Patsy Burke

Drs. Carol and David Cass

CBRE National Partners West / Darla Longo, Barbara Perrier, Michael Longo

Mr. Frederick Chau

Diana and Marc Chazaud

Mr. Joseph Cochran

Nancybell Coe and William Burke, in honor of James Conlon

Christina and Bill Conkle

Dr. Malcolm and Gabrielle Cosgrove

Antonio and Hanna Damasio

Michael Dillon

Mr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Doan

Larry and Jan Duitsman

Alexander Eddy

Craig Emanuel and Deborah Zipser

Margaret Epstein

Ms. Charlotte E. Eubanks

Joyce and Mal Fienberg

David F. Freedman, in memory of Joan Freedman

Leanne Freeman

Dr. Jerry and Jean Friedman

Scott and Elizabeth Frost

Ronald Frydman

Dr. and Mrs. Santo Galanti

ARTISTS CIRCLE ($2,000 AND ABOVE)

Nathan and Lee Anderson-Papillion

Sharon and William Azerrad

Pamela Bailis

Ilan and Adina Bender

Ms. Deborah Beveridge

Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Botnick

Mr. William Russell-Shapiro

Ms. Allison Sampson; in memory of Warner Henry

Brad Schlei and Jamie Price-Schlei

Mr. and Mrs. Neal Schmale

Nicola and Catherine Sebastiani

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Segal

Richard and Ellyn Semler

Marilyn Shapiro

Natalie K. and Marvin S. Shapiro

Judith L. Smith

LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District

Philip Starr and Michael Simental

John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation

Dr. Roger D. Stewart

Philip and Kristan Swan

Mr. Eliazar Talamantez

Arthur and Helen Geoffrion

Denise Gertmenian

Jerome J. Glaser / International Curtain Call

Dr. and Mrs. Steven M. Goldberg

Mr. Ronald Goldman

Carol Goldsmith, in honor of Susan Shapiro

Peter B. Goodrich

Nora Gordon and Brent Bryan

Peter and Elizabeth Goulds

Christine Gregory

Charles F. Hanes

Norma A. Harris & Frank Packard III

Larry and Lilia Hershenson

Mrs. Phoebe Ann Heywood

Gary Ho and Aihua Gan

Richard Holland Trust

Adel F. Jabour, M.D.

Mr. Punya Jain

Dr. Thomas D. Johnson, Ph.D., and Stacy B. Young

Gary and Denise Kading

Gloria Kaplan

Mr. Lynn Kirkhofer

Gayle Kirschbaum and Scott D. Baskin

Christopher Koelsch and Todd Bentjen

Ronald and Joann Kramar

Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald

Anne Kwun

Mrs. Dominique Laffont

Diane S. Lake

Ms. Sarah Landau

Peter and Electra Lang

Irwin and Rachel Levin

Dr. Cheryl D. Lew, M.D.

Mary H. Lewis

Dr. Leonard Lipman

Robert and Susan Long

Ms. Jasmine Lord

Michael and Claudia Margolis

Daniel Marshak

Ted McKinney

Robert Mendow

Bryan Mershon

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Miller

Olga Moretti

Jane Gray Morrison

Gary W. Murphy

Robert and Sally Neely

Beatrice H. Nemlaha

Barbara and Lawrence Nevens

Sarah and David Bottjer

Mr. Chuck Carpenter

Dr. K. Chang MD

Mr. and Mrs. Henry and Ronna Chavin

Ellis Chernoff

Dr. Timothy Ching

Gillian Teichert

Mr. and Mrs. Andy Torosyan

Ms. Joanne L. Dallas and Mr. Frank A. Traficante

Ms. Barbara A. Van Postman

Cynthia Walk

Ms. Maria D. Walker

Karen and Les Weinstein

Ms. Gail Werner

David and Michele Wilson

Mrs. Joan A. Winchell; in memory of Verne Winchell

Dr. William Wishner

Clemence Yi

Martin and Rosalind Zane

Dr. Betza Zlokovic

Michael and Marianne Newman

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. O’Dell

Dr. Edward J O’Neill, MD

Dr. Sophia Y. Pak, M.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Nissan Pardo

David L. Paul and Leyla V. Woods

Roger Allers and Genaro Pereira

Michael and Beverly Phillips

The Muriel Pollia Foundation

Carmen Popa

Ruth Popkin

Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Porter, Jr.

Peggy and Peter Preuss

Kai-Li and Hal Quigley

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Reid

Fen Rhodes and Nancy Corby

Ken and Erika Riley

Craig and Janis Risch

JoAnna and Matthew Rodriguez

Charleen Rohde

Diana Romero

Rikki Rosen

Paula and Allan Rudnick

John Schunhoff and Ken Titley

Albert Sepe

Mr. and Mrs. Sarkis Sepetjian

Dr. and Mrs. Neil J. Sherman

Mr. and Mrs. John B. (Jack) Simon

Dr. Joan E. Smiles

Judith L. Smith

Debra Vilinsky and Michael Sopher

Steven and Eleanor Sorenson

Shirley Earlise Starke-Wallace

Sidney Stern Memorial Trust

Francine Swain and Robert Murdock

Agne Taraseviciute

Mr. Andrew Tavakoli

Dr. and Mrs. Jose Torreblanca

Mrs. Linda Trope

Eve C. Van Rennes

Larry Verdugo

Ms. Carol Vernon and Mr. Robert Turbin

Martin Washton

Dr. Robert W. Weinman

Tina H. Wilson

Jan and Steve Winston

Sharon and Fillmore Wood

David A. Workman

Mr. Rudolf Ziesenhenne

Betty Cleeland

Maj. Gen and Mrs. Susan W. Cooning

Joseph and Farima Czyzyk

Mr. James Dabney

Claus Dieckell

Michiko Dunker

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PATRONS OF LA OPERA

ARTISTS CIRCLE ($2,000 AND ABOVE)

Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Durow

Van and Francine Durrer

Lisa Farrell

Thomas Farrell

Donald and Jackie Feinstein

Amy Friedkin

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford M. Gage

Arthur and Helen Geoffrion

Charmaine Glennon

Phillip and Cassandra Grant

Christine Gregory

Annie Gross

Carolyn and Harvey Gurman

Bernard and Carolyn Hamilton

Norma A. Harris and Frank Packard III

Samuel Harris

Dr. and Mrs. Edward Helmer

Lee Hendrix

Barbara Herman

Phil and Gage Hewes

Alvin and Mary Lee Hughes

Frank Humberstone

John Hofbauer and Laura Fox

Kedra Ishop

Mr. Irwin Jacobson

Birgit and Karl Jahina

Paul Jennings

Dr. Thomas D. Johnson, Ph.D., and Stacy B. Young

Jill Johnston

Rosemarie Johnstone

Sylvia Kavoukjian

Jim and Jean Keatley

Ellen and Harvey Knell

Mr. Joel and Mrs. Sharon Koppelman

Ms. Margaret G. Lodise

Ms. Blanca Lucero

Joseph H. MacDonald

Kathleen Martin

Patrick McCabe

Maria and Booker McClay Foundation

Drs. Anne and Ronald Mellor

Dr. Reinhard W. Menzel

Janet Michaels

Mary Miller

Mrs. Erica Min

Dr. and Mrs. G. Arnold Mulder

Ms. Laurice Myron

Liza and Thomas Newbauer

BELLA VOCE PATRONS (IRREVOCABLE ESTATE GIFTS)

Ron and Pat Oguss

Dr. Michael and Susan Patzakis

Mary Power

Barry and Sandy Pressman

Keith Price

Ruth and Rodney Punt

Mr. Christopher A. Reed

Timothy Reynolds

Mr. Michael Ridder

Ms. Mary Rough

Lynn and Michael Russell

Ms. Shahla Sabet

Mr. Don Simkin

Irene Sohm

Joyce and Al Sommer

Mr. Zohar Sorek

Mr. Herbert Stein

Jesse Telles

Michael Tseng

United Way of Greater Los Angeles

Larry Verdugo

Christina Wang and Ronald Swerdloff

Martin Washton

Ms. Marie Wiley

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

Natsuko Akiyama, in memory of Yoshio Akiyama

Dr. & Mrs. Julio Aljure

Gracia Alkema & C. Terry Hendrix

Karen Alpert Trust

John Altschul

Mr. Marvin Antonowsky

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ash

Shirley Ashkenas

Shirley Lee Barasch

Ms. Angela Bardowell

Estate of Margaret and David N. Barry III

Ambassador Frank & Kathy Baxter

Karen M. Beecher

Herbert M. Berk

Anne Boundy

The Samuel M. Brainin Trust

Carol & Normand Brewer

Jacqueline Briskin

Maynard & Linda Brittan

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Christine Brodie

Richard & Norma Camp

T. Robert Chapman Trust

David Chierichetti

Edward E. & Alicia Garcia Clark

Richard D. & Lisa K. Colburn

The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn)

Nancy Cook

Cosgrove Family Trust

Michele McGarry Crahan

Estate of Nancy Daly

Janet & Roger DeBard

Teresa DeCrescenzo

Estate of Phyllis & Donal Dreifus

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

Allan & Diane Eisenman

Gerald Faris

Adell Fink

Theodore Hill Finney

Claudia & Mark Foster

Herbert O. and Jean Fox

Kara Kass Fox

Estate of Valerie Franklin

Allen B. Freitag Trust

Ronald Frydman

Gerri Lee Frye

Roger Gallizzi and James Willey

Nancy Gentry Geller Trust

Gwynne M. Gloege

Estate of Barbara Goldenberg

Eric A. Gordon

Leonard Green

Bernard and Lenore Greenberg

Susan R. Greer

Joyce and Joelle Grinker

Estate of Walter O. Halden

Betty Hall Trust

Roy Hamilton

The Jerome G. Handelsman Trust

Hildegard Harris

Lee & David Hayutin

Anne Heineman

Estate of Harvey B. Heller

Warner & Carol Henry

Yvonne & Gordon Hessler

Joan H. Hotchkis Fund

Joan & John Hotchkis

Drs. Herbert and Judith Hyman

Mr. & Mrs. David K. Ingalls

Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody

Estate of H. Kirkland Jones

Sylvia & Vernon D. Jones

Estate of Stephen A. Kanter

Lawrence A. Kern

Joyce and Kent Kresa

Helen LammIvan and Hilda Layda / Layda Family Trust

Margo Leavin

The Norman & Sadie Lee Foundation

Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine

Dr. Paul E. LeMal

Raymond A. Lieberman Trust

Robert & Marguerite Marsh

Wolfgang E. Marum Trust

In memory of Terry Roberta Matthies

Linda May Suzar

Dr. Michael McGuire

Paula Kent Meehan

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Miller

The Jane Moore Family Trust

Diane and Leon Morton

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Anthony & Olivia Neece

Joan Harding Newman

Mei-Lee Ney

Estate of Beatrix F. Padway

Mr. Milan Panic

Lenore and Carl Pearlston

Chloe Pollock-Mieczkowski

Cat Jagger Pollon

Mrs. Jean Powell

Nan Rae

Suzanne Rheinstein

Christine P. Ries

Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr., Trust

The L. Franc Scheuer Trust

The Malcolm Schneer LAOC Trust

The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera

Archie Sharp

Milton Singer

Mr. & Mrs. William Smollen

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

Estate of Mr. Arthur Spitzer

Marilyn & Eugene Stein/ Capital Group Companies

Marc & Eva Stern

Estate of Gaby K. Tanas

Flora L. Thornton & Eric L. Small

Estate of C. Dickson Titus III

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Rose Vardanian

Ms. Carol Vernon and Mr. Robert Turbin

Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Mark A. Weaver

Estate of Monica Weil and Paul Schrade

Douglas B. Wood

Sharon and Fillmore Wood

Irene Zimmerman

BELLA VOCE PATRONS

(FUTURE GIFTS)

Anonymous (8)

Helen Mae Almas

Patti Amstutz

Robert C. Anderson

Sharon Baranoff

James C. Bassett, Ph.D.

Randall C. Bassett

Nancy Griffith Baxter

James M. Bell

Lorna D. Blancaflor

Dr. Judith F. Blumenthal

Rebecca Bowne

Hans and Dianne Bozler

Ms. Dale Bridges Johannsen

Mrs. Michele Brustin

Sharon A. Bryan

Elizabeth B. & Elwood S. Buffa

Jacqueline & Henry Cahn

Todd Calvin

Dr. Alisa Cone Camberlan

Leigh Robinson Cartwright

Drs. Carol & David Cass

Julia Cherry

Cecelia R. Cole

Bernice Colman

Ginger Conrad

Hilary Crahan

Keith Crasnick Family Trust

Drs. Nazareth & Ani Darakjian

Lawrence E. Deutsch

Amy Lyn DeZwart and George Betar

Leslie & John Dorman

Mary Kathryn Dunn

Anthony P. Eccher and Richard Conner Trust

Gerald Elijah/Octaveous Starr

Maureen Engelhard

Daniel Fink, M.D.

Richard Cullen and

Robert Finnerty

David F. Freedman

Leanne Freeman

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

Mr. & Mrs. John Garvey

James Gelb and Diane Morton

Dr. Melinda Gilmore

Jerome J. Glaser

Joyce & Eric Goldman

Rebecca Gomez

Marielle Gottlieb

Ms. Nancy A. Grant

Donna & Greg Griffith

Gary Gugelchuk

Susan D. Heard

Laura C. Hecht

Ms. Nita Heimbaugh

Dr. Jon Fellows and Judith Hemenway

Malcolm T. Henderson

Marcia and Dr. Paul Herman

Freddi and Dr. Kenneth D. Hill

Mike Hiscocks, in memory of Carol Roberts

Linda J. Hodge

Dr. Ronald Hopkins

Sharon & Donald Jackley

Norman W. & Rose M. Jaffe

Bruce Johansen

Dr. Barbara Johnston

Ms. Mary Teresa Johnston

Dr. & Mrs. William Kern

Dr. Stephen Knafel

KASIMOFF-BLÜTHNER PIANO CO.

L.A.’s oldest piano store

Concert and Home Rentals

Blüthner Pianos (since 1853)

Neupert Harpsichords (since 1868)

Schiedmayer Celesta (since 1890)

BELLA

VOCE PATRONS

Linda L. R. Knight

Richard P. & Meredith B. Kramer

Victoria and Douglas Lane

Larry Layne

Robert M. Lea

Mr. and Mrs. Lou D. Liuzzi

Gloria Lothrop

Mr. Jeff MacKey

Gerrie Maloof

Hon. Nora M. Manella

Sam I. Matsumoto/Gordon J. Geever Trust

Edward McCann

McCone Grand Opera Fund

Steven D. McGinty

Cynthia McWhirt

The Minturn Family Charitable Foundation

Michael and Lorraine Mohill

Nancy-Gene W. Morrison

Barbara and Maury Mortensen

Mary Jane Myers

Gordon & Rosie Ornelas Olson

Dr. Sophia Pak

Janet Petersen

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Prusan

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Pudenz

Robert and Phyllis Reid

Jeanne E. Roerig

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. Rogers

Mimi Rotter

Lawrence Rubenstein, Ph.D.

Frank D. Rubin

Dr. Jeanne W. Ruderman

( FUTURE GIFTS)

Maged Salib

Elizabeth Loucks Samson

Melody & Warren Schubert

Mr. & Mrs. Christof E. Schwab

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Richard and Ellyn Semler

Olga Sevilla

John Jacob Shaak

Marilyn Shapiro

Lynn Foster Sipe

Melissa Siskowic

Terry & Dennis Stanfill

R. Rhoads Stephenson

Donna Stillo

James and Ellen Strauss

Ms. Amanda F. Susskind

Elisabeth Tamari

Iris & Robert Teragawa

Dr. Elaine Totten and Mr. Barclay Totten

Mrs. Ella Upsher

Dr. Michael Upsher

Larry Verdugo

Barbara and Ken Warner

Michael Weber & Frances Spivy-Weber

Aviva Weiner

Janice and Mitchell Wellsteed, in memory of Robert Tomson

Linda & Robert E. Willett

Wesley and Rachel Williamson

Tana Wong

Los Angeles Jewish Health...Energizing

SAT, MAY 16 | 7:30 PM | ZIPPER HALL SUN, MAY 17 | 4 PM | THE WALLIS

Jaime Martín, Music Director Anthony Marwood, Violin

Coleman Itzkoff, Cello

W. Mozart, Symphony No. 35 in D major, “Haffner” Christopher Cerrone, Double Concerto for Violin & Cello

LACO COMMISSION / WORLD PREMIERE

P. Tchaikovsky, Orchestra Suite No. 4 in G major, “Mozartiana”

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

Welcome to The Music Center!

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

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

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

@musiccenterla

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

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

TAKE A FREE TOUR!

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

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

OFFICERS

Robert J. Abernethy

Chair

Cary J. Lefton

Darrell D. Miller

Vice Chairs

Rachel S. Moore

President & CEO

Michael J. Pagano

Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner

Treasurer

William Taylor

Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Charlene Achki Repko

Charles F. Adams

William H. Ahmanson

Romesh Anketell

Jill C. Baldauf

Phoebe Beasley

Kristin Burr

Dannielle Campos

Alberto M. Carvalho

Elizabeth Khuri Chandler

Terri B. Childs

Cástulo de la Rocha

William E. Dolan

Amy R. Forbes

Greg T. Geyer

Joan E. Herman

Jeffrey M. Hill

Jonathan B. Hodge

Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen

Maria Rosario Jackson

Ronald D. Kaplan

Richard B. Kendall

Lily Lee

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.

Kelsey N. Martin

Elizabeth Michelson

Cindy Miscikowski

Teresita Notkin

Karen Kay Platt

Susan Erburu Reardon

Joseph J. Rice

Beverly P. Ryder

Thomas L. Safran

Maria S. Salinas

Corinne Jessie

Sanchez

Mimi Song

Johnese Spisso

Michael Stockton

Jason Subotky

Timothy S. Wahl

Jennifer M. Walske

GENERAL COUNSEL

Rollin A. Ransom

DIRECTORS

EMERITI

Peter K. Barker

Judith Beckmen

Darrell R. Brown

Ronald W. Burkle

John B. Emerson **

Richard M. Ferry

Bernard A. Greenberg

Kent Kresa

Mattie McFaddenLawson

Fredric M. Roberts

Richard K. Roeder

Joni J. Smith

Lisa Specht **

Cynthia A. Telles

James A. Thomas

Andrea L. Van de Kamp **

Thomas R. Weinberger

Alyce de Roulet

Williamson

** Chair Emeritus

Current as of 2/26/26

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

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

Kathryn Barger Supervisor, Fifth District

Janice Hahn Supervisor, Fourth District

Hilda L. Solis Chair, First District

Lindsey P. Horvath Supervisor, Third District

Holly J. Mitchell Chair Pro Tem, Second District

(From left to right)

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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

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

• Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

• Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California Tribal Council

• Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians

• Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation

• San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

• San Fernando Band of Mission Indians

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

Happening at The Music Center

WED 1 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Kim's Convenience

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

@ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 4/19/26

WED 1 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Here Lies Love

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

@ Mark Taper Forum Thru 4/5/2026

THU 2 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Tchaikovsky & Haydn

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/4/2026

SAT 4 APR / 2:00 p.m.

Los Angeles Children's Chorus

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 10 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Turangalîa

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/12/2026

TUE 14 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Herbie Hancock

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 17 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Shostakovich & Sibelius

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/19/2026

APRIL 2026

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

SAT 18 APR / 11:00 a.m.

The Music Center's Very Special Arts Festival: Family Day

THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Jerry Moss Plaza

SAT 18 APR / 5:00 p.m.

Back to Oz

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

Presented in partnership with MUSE/IQUE

@ Mark Taper Forum Thru 4/26/2026

SAT 18 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Falstaff

LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 5/10/2026

SUN 19 APR / 7:00 p.m.

Mozart's Requiem

LOS ANGELES

MASTER CHORALE

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUE 21 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven & Schumann

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 24 APR / 7:00 p.m.

James Conlon Farewell Concert

LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

FRI 24 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Ichiko Aoba

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

SAT 25 APR / 8:00 p.m.

John Adams & Víkingur Ólafsson

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/26/2026

TUE 28 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Alexandre Kantorow

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall SCAN TO VIEW FULL CALENDAR

JUNE 24–28, 2026

New York City Ballet returns to The Music Center after more than 20 years with two electrifying programs featuring extraordinary dancers and works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon and more, performed with live music by the New York City Ballet Orchestra.

The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion musiccenter.org/NYCB | (213) 972-0711

BRING A GROUP AND SAVE! For groups of 8+, please visit musiccenter.org/groups for special pricing and offers.

2025/2026 Season Dedicated to the Memory of Glorya Kaufman

by

Featuring Hugo Marchand & Friends

July 31–August 2, 2026

Paris Opera Ballet Étoile Hugo Marchand brings a stellar lineup of principals and soloists to The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall for an intimate, reimagined ballet experience. Witness the breathtaking technique and artistry of Paris’ top dancers up close.

The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall musiccenter.org/balletnow | (213) 972-0711

BRING A GROUP AND SAVE! For groups of 8+, please visit musiccenter.org/groups for special pricing and offers.

2025/2026 Season Dedicated to the Memory of Glorya Kaufman

SEPTEMBER 8-27, 2026

OCTOBER 27 -NOVEMBER 15, 2026

MARCH 30 - APRIL 18, 2027

JUNE 1- 20, 2027

SEPTEMBER 30 -OCTOBER 18, 2026

MARCH 9 - 28, 2027

MAY 4 - 23, 2027

JULY 6 - 25, 2027

SEASON ADD ON DEC 17, 2026-FEB 13, 2027

SEASON ADD ON

JUL 28-AUG 29, 2027

PACKAGES START AT 10 EASY PAYMENTS OF $41 NO INTEREST. NO FEES.