10 Reasons to Look Forward to Our 2024/25 Season
We're incredibly pleased by the positive reception from our 2024/25 season announcement. If you haven't had a chance to dive into what our upcoming season has in store, or just want the highlight reel, we've got you covered with a list of 10 things we wanted to highlight about this upcoming season. From grand mainstage productions to intimate recitals, there's bound to be something that will catch your eye (and ear!)

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Crazy Little Thing Called Love
It's Valentine's season and love is in the air. Opera contains some of the world's grandest romances ever while also being an excellent date night destination (if you're looking for ideas), but the real-life couples behind the curtain tend to stay out of the spotlight. Take Highway 1, USA, created by the husband-and-wife duo of William Grant Still and Verna Arvey.

Their story is one that most people aren't familiar with, but certainly deserves to be told.

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The American Dream in Highway 1, USA
The American dream is an ever-present motif throughout Highway 1 USA. It's a road, or a highway if you will, of dreams and promises, but one  that has not always been fulfilling for those traversing it. Highway 1, USA director Kaneza Schaal understands this well and has implemented that idea throughout the opera from the stage to character design. Click below for her expert insight regarding Still's approach to the American dream and her own influences for this incredible production.

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Behind the Curtain

In this episode of our Behind the Curtain podcast, Richard Seaver Music Director James Conlon walks us through the history, the plot and of course the music of The Dwarf by Alexander Zemlinsky.

Be sure to catch Maestro Conlon's pre-show talks which take place an hour before each production in the Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall.

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To Paint is to Live
Holocaust Museum LA’s new "To Paint is to Live: Art & Resistance in Theresienstadt" exhibition highlights art clandestinely drawn, hidden, and recovered after the Holocaust.

The works of four remarkable artists who endured the harrowing conditions of the ghetto-camp explore powerful narratives of endurance, bravery, and resistance.

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