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Author and commentator William Berger explores the tricky challenges faced by opera companies and audiences alike when encountering beloved “exotic” works like Turandot in the modern era.

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24 D AVID HOCKNEY AT LA OPERA

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Clockwise from top: artist David Hockney’s iconic designs for Turandot come to Los Angeles for the first time; costume design from the 1926 world premiere of Turandot at La Scala; composer Giacomo Puccini.

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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.

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Welcome to LA Opera

Dear friends:

Our 2023/24 season comes to a close with a production I’ve been looking forward to for many years. Artist David Hockney, whose paintings frequently evoke the bright sunlight and open air of Southern California, has been associated with LA Opera since the company’s earliest seasons. In 1987, the company proudly unveiled his designs for a celebrated new production of Tristan und Isolde, followed in 1993 by his designs for Die Frau ohne Schatten. We have frequently revived both of these productions, introducing this iconic artist’s magical stagecraft to many thousands of appreciative audience members over the years. It is a special delight to now present, for the first time in Los Angeles, his astonishingly beautiful production of Turandot .

James Conlon, our wonderful music director, conducts this masterpiece for LA Opera for the first time. He leads a fantastic cast, headed by a quartet of artists whose previous appearances in Los Angeles have been cherished by our audiences. The spectacular Angela Meade sings the incredibly demanding title role, with Russell Thomas (our Resident Artist) as Calaf, Guanqun Yu as Liu and Morris Robinson as Timur.

The cast is rounded out by Ryan Wolfe as Ping and Alan Williams as the Mandarin—both of them in their final appearances as members of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program—along with Julius Ahn as Pong, Ashley Faatoalia as Emperor Altoum and Terrence Chin-Loy in his company debut as Pang.

I can promise that all of these individuals, along with our supremely talented roster of choristers and orchestral musicians, will provide you with a musically and visually breathtaking experience.

We are grateful to the Asian Opera Alliance for their support and guidance in addressing the challenges of producing this work for modern audiences.

Despite its enormous popularity, the sheer size and scale of Turandot make it a daunting challenge for any opera company to take up. That’s why I’m especially grateful for the support of our incredibly generous underwriters. I’d like to express my profound thanks to Barbara Augusta Teichert, the Alfred and Claude Mann Fund, the Estate of Cat Pollon, and David Niemetz and the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation for making it possible for us to bring Puccini’s final masterpiece to our stage for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Sincerely,

Christopher Koelsch SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

LA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marc Stern* HONORARY CHAIRMAN

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.* CHAIRMAN

Carol F. Henry* CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Leslie A. Dorman* Robert Ronus* Eugene P. Stein* Régina Weingarten* Marilyn Ziering* VICE CHAIRMEN

Penelope D. Foley* TREASURER

Paul D. Tosetti* SECRETARY

Bernard A. Greenberg* VICE CHAIRMAN EMERITUS AND FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER

Ahsan Aijaz

Patricia Artigas

James R. Asperger

Haig S. Bagerdjian

Paul Bloch

Lisa Bratkovich

Iman H. Brivanlou, Ph.D.

Brian P. Brooks

Barbara Burtin

Marlene Schall Chávez, Ph.D.

Janet J. Ciriello, Ed.D.

James Conlon†

Robert Cook

Alexis Deutsch-Adler

Kathleen Kane Eberhardt

Chaz Hammel-Smith Ebert

Geoff Emery

Dr. Annette Ermshar

Michael A. Friedman, M.D.

Gordon P. Getty**

Ambassador Frank E.

Baxter

Alicia Garcia Clark

Alice Steere Coulombe

Juan Carlos Gonzalez

Thomas Gottschalk

Diane Gray

Mónica Gutiérrez Roper

Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, M.D.

Nicolas Hamatake

Mary Hayley

Catherine H. Helm

William Chase

Hodge-Brokenburr

Rian Johnson

Tim C. Johnson*

Janet Jones

Richard Jones

Monique Regine Kagan

Lawrence A. Kern

Christopher Koelsch†*

Thomas F. Kranz

Scott R. Lord

Hon. Nora M. Manella

Don Franzen

Alexander Furlotti

Joan Hotchkis

Sherry Lansing

Claude Mann

Jennifer McCormick

Patricia McKenna*

Bryan Moeller

James Mulally

Gary W. Murphy

Gregory Nava

Leslie A. Pam, Ph.D.

Linda Pascotto*

Andrea Pessino*

Linda Pierce

Ceil Pulitzer**

Barry A. Sanders*

Lionel M. Sauvage*

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

R. Carlton Seaver*

Lisa See*

Tina L. Segel

Joan Seidel

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Harold B. Ray

Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders‡

Marvin S. Shapiro

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Linda Shaheen*

Marilyn Shapiro

Susan Shapiro*

Eric L. Small

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Janet Stanford

Deanie Stein

Dr. Ellen G. Strauss

Mimi Won Techentin

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Sandra W. Terner‡

Brigitta B. Troy

Gillian Wagner

Christopher V. Walker*

Geoffrey P. Wharton

Andrew Xu

Zev Yaroslavsky

Ellen Zetcher

Joakim Zetterberg

Ann Ziff

Richard E. Troop

Alyce Williamson

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PRESIDENTS / CHAIRMEN OF LA OPERA SINCE ITS INCEPTION

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John A. McCone

Lawrence Deutsch

Bernard I. Forester

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Edward W. Carter

Thomas Wachtell

Roy L. Ash

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THE TURANDOT PUZZLE

BY WILLIAM BERGER

Giacomo Puccini’s final and famously unfinished opera Turandot is about asking difficult questions, no matter the consequences. Indeed, producing Turandot on the American stage today evokes difficult questions that—unlike the famous “three riddles” of the opera—lack clear answers. Turandot is pageantry, comedy and fantasy, but it is by no means a work about China or Chinese people. Rather, it derives from another time rife with

bizarre notions of “orientalism.” How should we in the 21st century approach this problem? How do today’s audiences, infused with greater awareness and sensitivity to Asian cultures, see these characters and situations on the stage? Is Turandot even possible today? Two Asian-American authors with impressive experience in the world of opera, David Henry Hwang and Amy Tan, try to help us through this maze.

Costume sketches by U. Brunelleschi for the first production of Turandot in 1926

David Henry Hwang Amy Tan

First, we must understand what Turandot is before we can address the challenges in it. Puccini (1857-1924) was the most popular and commercially successful opera composer of his day. His three most successful operas—La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900) and Madama Butterfly (1904)—made him an international household name and are at the center of every opera company’s repertory. Those operas and almost all his others were created with an eye toward operatic realism. The character of Butterfly or Cio-Cio-San, for example, was meant to be perceived as an actual person one might have met in real life. The action of Tosca takes place a hundred years prior to its premiere, but it was still meant to be understood as actual people in a real time and place, down to a specific location (an actual church in Rome), date (June 17, 1800), and time of day (Act I begins at three in the afternoon). Most of Puccini’s other operas have the same atmosphere, that is, until Turandot. The libretto tells us we are in “Peking, in legendary times.” Right away, we know we are in a different dimension compared to Madama Butterfly or Tosca.

There is a grand tradition of “exoticism” (from the Greek word for “foreign”) in 19th- and early 20th-century opera, often involving time (“way back then in legendary times”) as well as geography (“way over there”). This draws a magical frame around the story that makes impossible things possible, and therefore ancient Asia made a great background for operatic exoticism, e.g., Ceylon (Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers ), Japan (Mascagni’s Iris ), India (Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore ), and an imaginary empire of the South Seas (Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten ). The characters in these and other operatic exercises in exoticism can do what “actual” people cannot, socially and even existentially. So debate over racist attitudes and cultural trivialization is irrelevant in fantasy operas, right?

Not necessarily, according to author David Henry Hwang, who warns us against using the legendary label of Turandot as a sort of “hall pass” to permit pernicious attitudes. “We tend to want to ‘hide in plain sight’ behind some story that gives us cover,” he explains. “It is possible that the fantasy aspects of Turandot appeal to us precisely because they ‘abstractify’ the difficult issues into legend.”

The modern equivalent of traditional European exoticism is science fiction: when modern auteurs want to tell a story that is slightly beyond what is possible, they set it not in legendary Asia but in outer space, as in “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” The racial issues and the specific associations of Asian characters with the forces of evil in early science fiction

(the Han in Buck Rogers and the Emperor Ming of Flash Gordon, for example) are sufficient to demonstrate Hwang’s caveat. There has even been debate about negative racial archetypes embedded in some characters of the Star Wars franchise, proving that “legendary” does not absolve a work from charges of toxic racial preconceptions.

The question becomes how best to produce this work on stage in practical terms, especially the casting of the roles. The issue of casting according to ethnicity has thundered on Broadway, as playwright Hwang (M. Butterfly) knows so well. Is this a way to address the exoticism in Turandot? Author Amy Tan doubts that casting according to ethnicity is appropriate in this case.

“It boils down to a question of responsibility,” she explains, “to the audience, to the artists, and the work itself. Since this is an opera, the music—which is what people love about Turandot—must reign supreme.” This cannot mean the music removes responsibility for all nonmusical issues in the work, an argument that the opera world’s experience with Richard Wagner (to cite the most obvious example) has shown to be untenable. It means that the work must be understood first and foremost from the point of view of the music’s needs. “The first requirement for the role of Turandot is that she be able to manage the music,” says Tan, for her music is extremely difficult, even by operatic standards. “You need to have the best singers for the role regardless of their ethnicity,” Tan continues. “Otherwise, it’s unfair to them and to everyone. It becomes comical in the wrong way.”

Tan knows when there is an appropriate time for casting along ethnic lines at the opera. She wrote the libretto for the opera The Bonesetter’s Daughter, based on her 2001 novel of the same name, with music by Stewart Wallace. Produced by San Francisco Opera in 2008, it starred the late Zheng Cao, a Chinese-born American singer whose signature role was Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. The role in The Bonesetter’s Daughter is double: Ruth, a Chinese-American woman, and her “old-country” mother named Lu-Ling (recalling, interestingly, a long dead character, Lo-u Ling, mentioned in Act II of Turandot and said to be “reborn” in the title character). Cao’s character is meant to be understood as alive today. This is very different from Turandot, says Tan. “There is nothing representative in Turandot that is Chinese. … To have casting tied to it would be forcing a point that makes no point.”

Hwang reminds us that Turandot’s story ultimately derives from a Persian source. (“Turandot” is a Persian word and means “the daughter of Turan.”) So what role

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does that provenance play in finding cultural truth in this complex tale? And then there is the “Tartar” (central Asian) identity of three of the main characters. In fact, the story as we know it contains an even more complex ecumenism. The direct source is a play by the 18th-century Venetian Carlo Gozzi, who was celebrated for writing “fantasy” plays in opposition to his rival Goldoni who championed theatrical realism. In Gozzi’s play, characters from the Italian commedia dell’arte tradition wander into China and attain positions in the court, as their historical Venetian predecessor Marco Polo claimed to have done. These absurd characters become the opera’s Ping, Pang and Pong, whose very names prick our ears to possibilities of racist reductions. But their comic relief (depicted in syncopated rhythms, an Italian tradition in comic music) tells us that the clowns of the story are Italian—or at least as Italian as anyone is anything in this world. “If we look at this as a Chinese story, we’re going to have to send it back for major rewrites,” Tan says bluntly.

Casting the roles in Turandot along ethnic lines— even if it were possible—is not a solution in itself. Hwang believes we need a bigger vision of inclusion throughout the opera world and beyond. “We want to see casts that reflect the population of our country,” Hwang says. “It involves larger issues of training artists and employment opportunities. You can’t just deal with these issues at the level of a major opera company. … You have to open [the] training of singers to diverse populations from an early age and in every place. I think there’s some work going into making this a future reality, and we all have to commit to this.”

Speaking of the future, Tan points out how the role of time affects our perception of cultural conflicts. “In a hundred years, we will see these things differently,” she says. “The landscape shifts beneath the issues and changes the meaning of our actions.” Casting Turandot or The Bonesetter’s Daughter would be a different issue because we will be different people. “If the United States is more involved and integrated with China, economically and culturally— which seems likely—then ethnicity itself would play out in a different way,” says Tan. Exoticism was defined differently when Turandot premiered in 1926 than it is today and will be still something else in the future. The opera world will need to keep asking difficult questions to keep up with this changing landscape.

William Berger is the author of the books Puccini Without Excuses, Wagner Without Fear and Verdi with a Vengeance. This essay was originally published by San Francisco Opera.

Our Newest Board Members

Juan Carlos Gonzalez

Juan Carlos Gonzalez has been a labor arbitrator, hearing officer and mediator since 2012. A bilingual licensed attorney, he worked as a Federal Mediator from 2000 to 2012. As a commissioner with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, he has mediated over 600 cases. He is a hearing officer for the Personnel Commission of the LA Unified School District and LA Community College District. He was executive director of the Southern California Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) from 2019 to 2022.

Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson is an Academy Award and Golden Globenominated filmmaker known for films like Brick, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out. In 2019, Johnson and producer Ram Bergman launched their production company, T-Street. The company’s film and television projects include Glass Onion, Poker Face, Fair Play and, most recently, American Fiction. Through T-Street, Johnson supports independent filmmakers and emerging talent. He is currently preparing for the much-anticipated third installment of a Knives Out mystery.

Jennifer McCormick

Jennifer McCormick is the CEO of American Freight Logistics. She serves on the National Council of the American Red Cross Tiffany Circle and the board of ARC’s Los Angeles region. She is also a member of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Acquisition Committee, a trustee of US Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, and a trustee of Otis College Art and Design.

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Barbara Augusta Teichert has helped to bring many of LA Opera’s most beloved productions to the stage for over 16 years. Now, through her generosity, the company is thrilled to bring Puccini’s Turandot to the stage 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) and Otello (2023). 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.

B arbara, 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 Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar . She also served on the board of Washington National Opera for nine years, supporting a project there every season for over a decade. For the Metropolitan Opera, she has underwritten a number of productions, ranging from the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor to Idomeneo and La Rondine

We are grateful for Barbara’s longstanding generosity and honored that LA Opera is one of her treasured opera homes.

The Alfred and Claude Mann Fund

LA Opera is proud to present this extraordinary production of Turandot, made possible thanks to the incredible generosity of the Alfred and Claude Mann Fund. The Alfred Mann Trust created this fund with a series of gifts that have now had an impact of over $10 million in support. The Manns established the fund as a way of showing their devotion to LA Opera. It underwrites two productions each season, enabling the company to raise the curtain on a host of memorable presentations, which have included La Bohème (2012, 2016), Tosca (2013, 2017, 2022), Carmen (2013), The Barber of Seville (2015), El Gato Montés (2019), The Light in the Piazza (2019), Roberto Devereux (2020), Il Trovatore (2021), Aida (2022), Lucia di Lammermoor (2022), Don Giovanni (2023), and now this production of Turandot.

The Manns’ connection to LA Opera is a true love story. Claude’s own passion for opera brought Al to the art form. As LA Opera Honorary Board Chairman Marc Stern noted, “Al hadn’t been an opera lover, but he

loved Claude and therefore loved the opera.”

A biotech entrepreneur, Al Mann founded 17 companies in his lifetime and was the CEO of MannKind Corporation, a company focused on developing new, lifesaving treatments for diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. He also served as chair of the Alfred Mann Foundation, a trustee of USC and a board member of the LA Philharmonic.

Claude Mann is a philanthropist who earned success in the restaurant business. She has been a member of LA Opera’s board since 2008. Sadly, Al passed away in February of 2016. With each thrilling production underwritten thanks to the Manns’ generosity, his legacy in the arts—and his love story with Claude—live on.

Cat Pollon

This production of Turandot is made possible thanks to the support of devoted patron Cat Pollon. LA Opera is deeply grateful to have been the recipient of a very generous gift from Ms. Pollon’s estate upon her passing in May of 2022. The company is honored to recognize her as an underwriter of this grand production.

A lifelong opera devotee, Ms. Pollon, whose given name was Ellen Jagger Pollon, and her late mother Elisabeth became subscribers in 1991. Cat was passionate about the company and many of its early founders, artists, and administrators. She often extended herself to support LA Opera beyond what was financially feasible for her and volunteered her time as a board member of the Opera League of Los Angeles. Ms. Pollon was a singer herself, and she traveled extensively to see opera around the world. Her love of opera was matched only by her love of cats, and thus, she adopted the name Cat.

Ms. Pollon’s family had a long history of philanthropy and engagement in Los Angeles. Her father, John J. Pollon, was a former director of City National Bank and a former Los Angeles City Planning Commissioner. He was active in youth sports organizations and conservation groups. Her mother, Elisabeth Pollon, was a founder of American Cinematheque, a nonprofit which grew out of FILMEX (the Los Angeles International Film Exposition) and now operates several movie houses in Los Angeles, including the Egyptian Theatre and the Los Feliz 3 Theatre.

LA Opera extends its gratitude to Cat Pollon for her devotion to the company and her dedication to ensuring that the beauty of opera will continue to be enjoyed by generations of audiences throughout Southern California. Her singular flair will be missed by all who knew her.

David Niemetz and the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

LA Opera is honored to thank David Niemetz and the board of the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation in their debut as underwriters with this superb production of Puccini’s Turandot. Mr. Niemetz is the president of the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation, which continues the legacy of the late Rafael de Marchena-Huyke (pictured, at right)— honoring his passion for LA Opera and for arts education.

Mr. de Marchena-Huyke, who was affectionately known as Rafa, began attending LA Opera in 2005 and became a subscriber in 2014. In 2017, he became a Music Center Founder and a member of the Opera Council, making a multi-year commitment to support the company and to demonstrate his deep love of the art form. He liked to attend the Opera Ball and participate in donor gatherings featuring the artisans, directors and singers who bring our performances to life. He was always the last patron to leave donor events, because he so enjoyed getting to know the singers and staff personally.

Mr. de Marchena-Huyke was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He came to the United States to attend college at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, eventually

becoming a United States citizen. It was in Beverly Hills and Hollywood that he honed his creative talents and developed a successful career as a hair stylist and interior designer. Rafael was married later in life to his dearest friend Luisa Islas Richardson, who passed away in 2015. He said, “People are surprised to know that Luisa and I had known each other practically our entire life. In a matter of fact, after 58 years of friendship, I found myself proposing marriage to her.”

Rafael passed away peacefully in January of 2019, just six weeks shy of his 87th birthday. Through the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation, Mr. Niemetz honors Mr. de Marchena-Huyke’s wish to continue uplifting LA Opera. Each season, the Foundation’s support allows the company to reach higher levels of artistic excellence and share the power of opera with a wider audience. And each time Mr. Niemetz attends an LA Opera performance or gala event, we serve rosé champagne in Rafa’s memory. LA Opera is deeply grateful to Mr. Niemetz and the board of the Foundation for underwriting this production in honor of Mr. de Marchena-Huyke.

Pathways for Student Connection

The LA Opera Leadership Academy and the College Advisory Committee help bridge the gap between education and the workforce while sharing the joy of opera with the next generation of music lovers. Through these programs, high school and college students have unique opportunities to explore different areas of interest, try out jobs they might enjoy and gain volunteer and paid work experience. Hundreds of students have gained invaluable insight and expertise from their time at LAO, which they carry with them to all future endeavors.

LA Opera’s Leadership Academy offers an unprecedented opportunity to start working toward career goals. Each fall, a small cohort of high school juniors enters a six-year paid internship with LAO, rotating between various administrative departments including marketing, fundraising, community engagement and more. Academy interns develop their skills while building the professional experience required in today’s competitive job market. As one former intern told us:

“The skills and professionalism I gained at LA Opera well prepared me for the jobs and opportunities I received during college.”

After completing the Leadership Academy, students are empowered to achieve their goals in higher education, the work force and beyond. Applications for the next class of interns open this summer. If you or someone you know might be interested in this life-changing opportunity, visit LAOpera.org/Academy to learn more.

Students can also enjoy incredible access to the arts via the College Advisory Committee, which offers behindthe-scenes experiences as well as networking and volunteer opportunities. Committee members enjoy social gatherings, College Night tickets and exclusive talks with

professional artists and administrative staff at LA Opera. They also share their passion for music with peers, fostering friendships and serving as opera ambassadors on their college campuses. Many students volunteer alongside LA Opera Connects staff, getting an inside look at how we serve the community and the many arts career paths available to them. One recent member shared with us:

“If it weren’t for the College Advisory Committee, I would’ve never been exposed to the various career paths at LAO which cemented my decision to pursue a career in the arts.”

Applications for the 2024/25 College Advisory Committee open soon; sign up at LAOpera.org/CAC to discover what’s possible.

Through the Leadership Academy and the College Advisory Committee, students gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to succeed. To learn more about these and other opportunities, visit LAOpera.org/Connects today.

The 2023 members of the College Advisory Committee meet up at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Above: Academy Interns working as Opera Camp Counselor (left) and staffing the Connects tables at the Don Giovanni live simulcast (right).

Don Giovanni WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

September 23 – October 15, 2023

Production made possible by generous support from Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg; The Blue Ribbon; The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas; and Alfred and Claude Mann Fund. With special appreciation to Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Isabel Leonard’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund.

The Barber of Seville GIOACHINO ROSSINI

October 21 – November 12, 2023

Production made possible by generous support from Andrea and Janie Pessino and the Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn). With special support from Laura and Carlton Seaver. Isabel Leonard’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund.

The Bride of Frankenstein with Live Orchestra

FRANZ WAXMAN

October 27-28, 2023, at the Theatre at Ace Hotel

Off Grand productions are supported by a consortium of generous donors to LA Opera’s Contemporary Opera Initiative, chaired by Barry and Nancy Sanders. Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

El último sueño de Frida y Diego

November 18 – December 9, 2023

GABRIELA LENA FRANK / NILO CRUZ

Production made possible by generous support from the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund and Margo Leavin. Additional support provided by a consortium of generous donors to LA Opera’s Contemporary Opera Initiative, chaired by Barry and Nancy Sanders.

Rodelinda GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

November 21, 2023

Special support from Mr. Robert Finnerty and Mr. Richard Cullen.

Audra McDonald in Concert

December 2, 2023

Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

Highway 1, USA

2023/24

SEASON

LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

La Traviata

April 6 – 27, 2024

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Production made possible by generous support from Andrea and Janie Pessino; the Jane and Peter Hemmings Production Fund, a gift from the Flora L. Thornton Trust; and the Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund. Special additional support from the Armenian Consortium; the family of Ginger Conrad; The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation; and the Orden Family in memory of their beloved patriarch and matriarch, Ted and Hedy. Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s appearance made possible by generous support from The Eva and Marc Stern Principal Artists Fund.

Book of Mountains and Seas HUANG RUO

April 10 – 14, 2024, at the The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage Off Grand productions are supported by a consortium of generous donors to LA Opera’s Contemporary Opera Initiative, chaired by Barry and Nancy Sanders.

Patti LuPone in Concert

April 20, 2024

Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

Noah’s Flood

May 3 – 4, 2024, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Production made possible by a generous grant from the  Dan Murphy Foundation. Special support also received from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs; Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; and Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders. Piano graciously provided by Yamaha.

Turandot

May 18 – June 8, 2024

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Production made possible by generous support from Barbara Augusta Teichert and the Alfred and Claude Mann Fund. Additional generous support from the Estate of Cat Pollon and the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation.

Fire and Blue Sky

June 6, 2024

JOEL THOMPSON

WILLIAM GRANT STILL The Dwarf

February 24 – March 17, 2024

ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY

Founding and ongoing leadership support for the Recovered Voices project provided by Marilyn Ziering and the Ziering Family Foundation. Production made possible by generous support from Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg. Principal underwriting support provided by a generous anonymous gift. Special additional support from Thurmond Smithgall and The Lanie & Ethel Foundation. With special appreciation to Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Special additional support for Highway 1, USA from National Endowment for the Arts and OPERA America/Next Stage. Kaneza Schaal’s direction of Highway 1, USA is generously underwritten by a gift from The Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Next Generation Artist Award.

Renée Fleming in Recital

June 15, 2024

SUPPORTERS

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. (See pages P13 and P14.) They have provided the necessary foundational support for world-class opera in Los Angeles.

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

GRoW @ Annenberg

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Colburn Foundation

County of Los Angeles

Dunard Fund USA

Gordon Getty

The Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund

Carol and Warner Henry

Terri and Jerry Kohl

Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate

Ronus Foundation

The Seaver Family

Marilyn Ziering

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden

The Blue Ribbon

Ana and Robert Cook

Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman

The Alexander Furlotti Foundation

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Peter and Diane Gray

The Green Foundation

Margo Leavin

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation

Nanette and Keith Leonard

LGHG Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Dan Murphy Foundation

The Okun Family, in memory of Milton Okun

Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

Andrea and Janie Pessino

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Suzanne Rheinstein, in honor of Fred Rheinstein

Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr., Trust

Ariane and Lionel Sauvage

David and Linda Shaheen

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Barbara Augusta Teichert

Emanuel Treitel Trust

Christopher V. Walker

Richard and Lenore Wayne

Ann Ziff

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

CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH , SEBASTIAN PAUL AND MARYBELLE MUSCO PRESIDENT AND CEO

JAMES CONLON , RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Turandot

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, based on the dramatic fairy tale by Carlo Gozzi

Last duet and final scene completed by Franco Alfano

CREATIVE TEAM

CONDUCTOR

James Conlon

DIRECTOR

Garnett Bruce*

SCENIC DESIGNER

David Hockney

COSTUME DESIGNER

Ian Falconer

ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

Thomas J. Munn

REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

Gary Marder*

CHORUS DIRECTOR

Jeremy Frank

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Fernando Malvar-Ruiz

CHOREOGRAPHER

Kitty McNamee

FIGHT AND INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Andrew Kenneth Moss

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Zoe Zeniodi

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Erik Friedman

STAGE MANAGER

Whitney McAnally

PROMPTER

Tamar Sanikidze

MUSICAL PREPARATION

Nicholas Roehler ‡

Nate Raskin

Lucas Nogara†

CAST

TURANDOT

CALÀF

LIÙ

TIMUR

PING

PANG

PONG

EMPEROR ALTOUM

MANDARIN

HANDMAIDENS

Angela Meade

Russell Thomas

Guanqun Yu

Morris Robinson

Ryan Wolfe †

Terrence Chin-Loy*

Julius Ahn

Ashley Faatoalia

Alan Williams †

Claire Pegram*

April Amante

PRINCE OF PERSIA Sung Bong Kim*

ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

SUPPORT

Production made possible by generous support from Barbara Augusta Teichert

Alfred and Claude Mann Fund

Additional generous support from The Estate of Cat Pollon

De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

PRODUCTION NOTES

The running time is approximately three hours, including two intermissions.

Supertitles for Turandot, by Christopher Bergen, are provided by the San Francisco Opera Association.

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

Produced in consultation with the Asian Opera Alliance.

Co-production of San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Additional costumes constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Wig & Make-Up Department.

* LA Opera debut

† Member of the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program

‡ Alumnus of the Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist Program

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ACT ONE

The drama unfolds in a legendary Peking, China. Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can solve her three riddles; all who fail must die. Many heroes have perished trying to win her hand. The kingdom has gathered to witness the execution of the latest to fail, the Prince of Persia.

Timur, the deposed King of the Tartars, old and blind, hides among the crowd with Liù, an enslaved woman. Timur falls when the crowd surges forward to see the Prince. Timur’s son Calàf, recognizing his father, helps the old man to his feet.

The crowd cries out for blood, calling on the moon to rise, for that is the moment of execution. But when the Prince appears, he is pale, handsome, and barely more than a boy. The crowd takes pity on him and begs Turandot to have mercy on him. Turandot appears before the crowd, signaling that he must be killed.

Calàf is captivated by her beauty. Timur and Liù try to impress upon him that pursuing his infatuation will only end badly as the Prince of Persia is executed, but Calàf will hear none of it. Calàf rushes to strike the gong, thereby declaring his intention to pursue Turandot, but Ping, Pang and Pong, the Emperor’s ministers, intervene. They warn him that striking the gong leads to certain death, and Timur and Liù echo their entreaties while the ghosts of Turandot’s executed suitors egg Calàf on. Liù cannot bear Calàf’s obstinate, destructive resolve (“Signore, ascolta!”). Calàf tries to comfort her (“Non piangere, Liù”), but Liù only foresees certain death. He rushes forward and strikes the gong three times.

About This Performance

Turandot is a masterpiece that contains imagined, outdated and inaccurate representations of Asian culture. LA Opera has worked in consultation with the Asian Opera Alliance, who have offered input on how to present the work with greater consciousness, care and context, while maintaining fidelity to the original opera and this classic 1992 David Hockney production. For more information on this issue, please visit LAOpera.org/Turandot

ACT TWO

Scene One

Ping, Pang and Pong sit in a pavilion on the grounds of the palace, recalling the countless executions they’ve seen since the birth of Princess Turandot. Thirteen men have already died this year, and the ministers are ready to make Calàf the 14th name on that list. They dream of the day when the executions will end, but preparations are already underway for Calàf.

Scene Two

Wise men appear in the square carrying scrolls with the answers to the three riddles (“Gravi, enormi ed impotenti”). The Emperor, enthroned in venerable majesty, begs Calàf to leave, but the Tartar prince will not yield. Turandot recounts the story of Princess Lo-u-Ling, her ancestor, dragged away by invaders (“In questa reggia”). Hatred for the man who killed Lo-u-Ling lives on in Turandot’s heart, and no man shall ever possess her. Turandot then speaks the riddles. Calàf answers each one correctly, but Turandot refuses to become his wife. He tells her that if she can discover his name before dawn, he will let her have him executed.

ACT THREE

The heralds announce that by order of Princess Turandot, no man shall sleep that night. Death will be the penalty if the stranger’s name is not discovered by dawn. Calàf vows to only reveal his name to Turandot once daylight has broken (“Nessun dorma!”). Ping, Pang and Pong try to wrench the secret from Calàf, but he refuses all of their attempts to elicit his name.

Soldiers bring in Timur and Liù, and Turandot enters to interrogate them. Liù declares that she alone knows the stranger’s name. The soldiers try to torture it out of her, but she grabs one of their daggers and stabs herself, declaring that by her sacrifice, the princess will come to love the stranger. Timur follows Liù’s body as the people lift it and carry it away.

Calàf indignantly kisses Turandot, trying to thaw the princess of ice (“Principessa di morte!”). Dawn breaks, and with it, Turandot’s resolve. When the crowd asks if she knows the stranger’s name, she replies, looking into Calàf’s eyes, “His name is love!” Spared death, the populace celebrates their happiness.

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

“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” (Winston Churchill, 1939)

Churchill made his famous comment (describing Russia) 13 years after Turandot’s premiere, yet it can well serve as a guide through Puccini’s composition.

Puccini did not live to complete the opera, which left two major problems. Primarily, how would it be completed for performance? (The answer was the enlistment of composer Franco Alfano.) Secondarily, what would Puccini have done, not just with the ending, but with the entire work, had he survived to begin his customarily rigorous editorial process, agonizing over both forest and trees?

Turandot was vastly different from all of its predecessors in scope, intent, substance and form. It looks both backward to early 19th-century “number” operas, with a series of set solo and choral pieces, and forward to the stylization and neoclassicism of the 1920s.

It is largely drawn from an 18th-century comedy(!) by Carlo Gozzi, who drew from a variety of sources (none

MEET THE ARTISTS

James Conlon CONDUCTOR

From: New York City, New York.

LA Opera: La Traviata (2006, debut); he has conducted 68 different operas and over 470 performances with the company to date. He has been Richard Seaver Music Director since 2006. In 2026, 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)

of them Chinese), combining the Venetian commedia dell’arte tradition with a fairy-tale prince and princess. The opera has only one classically “Puccinian” character, Liù, developed from a very different character in the source material. Her expanded presence seems to have been a personal dedication to a young woman who had worked for the Puccini family, whose tragic suicide weighed heavily on the composer. In a poignant irony, it was at the suicide of Liù, the only character who deeply wins our sympathy in Puccini’s accustomed manner, that conductor Arturo Toscanini interrupted the world premiere with the words “here the master laid down his pen.”

The tradition of Italian opera reached its zenith with Turandot, evolving from its Renaissance Florentine roots to the ultimately unsurpassable works of the two giants, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini. That tradition was to pass into history, no longer a model to be followed but a treasure to be preserved as one of Western Europe’s monumental cultural achievements.

Go to LAOpera.org/Turandot to read the complete essay.

Garnett Bruce DIRECTOR

From: Washington, DC.

LA Opera: debut.

About: He has directed at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Dallas Opera and made his European opera debut staging Turandot for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. He has been the Artistic Advisor for Opera San Antonio since 2018. From 2008 to 2011 he was the artistic adviser and principal stage director for Opera Omaha. He began directing for the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 2004, receiving a faculty appointment in 2006. He was on staff at the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1993 and joined the faculty from 1997 until 2019. In 2022 he joined the faculty of University of Texas as Resident Stage Director of the Butler School of Music. He has created stagings of Turandot, Carmen, Tosca, Aida, Pagliacci and La Bohème that have been seen coast to coast. (GarnettBruce.com)

David Hockney

SCENIC DESIGNER

From: Bradford, England.

LA Opera: Tristan und Isolde (1987, debut; 1997; 2008); Die Frau ohne Schatten (1993, 2004).

About: A former longtime Los Angeles resident, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential artists of his time. His distinctive style and use of color and light have graced an enormous range of media since the 1960s, encompassing etchings, paintings, drawings, photographic collages and printing, as well as the creation of landmark theatrical designs for film, theater and opera. For Glyndebourne Opera, he has designed The Rake’s Progress and The Magic Flute. His designs for Turandot premiered in 1992 at Lyric Opera of Chicago, were televised from San Francisco Opera on PBS’s Great Performances, and have been seen in Italy and throughout the U.S.. He has also designed sets and costumes for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Le Rossignol and Oedipus Rex. In 1997 he received the Order of the Companion of Honour Award from Queen Elizabeth II. (Hockney.com)

Thomas J. Munn

ORIGINAL

LIGHTING DESIGNER

From: New Britain, Connecticut. LA Opera: Samson et Dalila (1999, debut).

About: Thomas J. Munn (19442022) was Resident Lighting Designer for the San Francisco Opera for over 20 years. In 1975 he was invited to design the lighting for Macbeth for the Netherlands Opera. That production brought him to the attention to Kurt Herbert Adler, who invited him to join the San Francisco Opera production team. Tom designed the lighting for 285 productions for the company as well as dozens of productions for companies around the world. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis, where he co-created the MFA program in theater design. He developed innovative ways to use projections and was instrumental in installing early computerized lighting systems. When San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House was renovated following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, he was an integral part of the design of the new theatrical lighting system.

Ian Falconer

COSTUME DESIGNER

From: Ridgeville, Connecticut. LA Opera: Die Frau ohne Schatten (1993, debut; 2004); Turandot (2024).

About: The late Ian Falconer (1959-2023) studied at New York University, Parson’s School of Design and the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. He worked as a painter, illustrator and scenic designer, and his work included many theater productions in New York and Los Angeles. He designed sets and costumes for New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. He designed many covers for The New Yorker and was the author and illustrator of all the titles in the bestselling Olivia series: Olivia (for which he was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 2001), Olivia Saves the Circus, Olivia...and the Missing Toy, Olivia and the Fairy Princess and Olivia Forms a Band. A 2009 animated series based on the books won a Parents’ Choice Award. His last book, Two Dogs, was published in 2022.

Gary Marder

REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

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

About: Long associated with San Francisco Opera, he has designed numerous productions there including Mefistofele, The Barber of Seville, The Flying Dutchman, La Traviata, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Un Ballo in Maschera, Tosca, La Cenerentola, Carmen, Jenůfa, Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber, Manon, Rigoletto and Turandot, as well as this season’s upcoming production of Handel’s Partenope. Recent engagements elsewhere include Tosca and Madama Butterfly for Washington National Opera, The Barber of Seville for the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet, Dream of the Red Chamber for the Hong Kong Arts Festival and The Magic Flute for Opera Australia. He has designed La Traviata in Torino and Tokyo, The Makropulos Case and Samson and Dalila for Houston Grand Opera, Carmen, Peter Grimes and Norma for San Diego Opera and Dialogues of the Carmelites for Palm Beach Opera.

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 helped prepare Seattle Opera’s Ring cycle in 2013 and has been a guest faculty member for young artist programs at Utah Opera and Seattle Opera. (JeremyMFrank.com)

Fernando Malvar-Ruiz

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES CHILDREN’S CHORUS

From: Vigo, Spain.

LA Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2018, debut); La Bohème (2019); St. Matthew Passion (2021); Tosca (2022); Otello (2023).

About: An internationally regarded choral conductor, clinician, and educator, he became artistic director of the LACC in 2018. He has prepared choirs for appearances with the LA Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, among others. From 2004 to 2017, he was artistic director of the American Boychoir, leading the ensemble in over 150 performances and up to five national and international tours annually. He conducted the American Boychoir on six recordings, led its performances on the Academy Awards and a 9/11 memorial service broadcast globally on CNN, and he was the music director on the film Boychoir, directed by François Girard. He has guest conducted children’s and youth choirs around the globe.

Kitty McNamee

CHOREOGRAPHER

From: Ashland, Ohio.

LA Opera: Roméo et Juliette (2005, debut; 2011); La Traviata (2006, 2009, 2014, 2019); Don Carlo (2006, 2018); La Rondine (2008); Lucia di Lammermoor (2014, 2022); The Tales of Hoffmann (2017); The Marriage of Figaro (2023).

About: She was Artistic Director of Hysterica Dance Co., which redefined dance in LA. She collaborates extensively with the LA Philharmonic. Ballets include RIFT (Cabrillo Festival, Kennedy Center), Traces and Transit (National Choreographer’s Initiative) and colony (LA Ballet’s NEXT Wave Series). She has choreographed for Secret Cinema’s live performances with Laura Marling in London, Colony Collapse (commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Sense and Sensibility (South Coast Rep), The Fantasticks (Pasadena Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (LA Phil), Man of LaMancha (Reprise!) and Sondheim’s 75th (Hollywood Bowl). (KittyMcNamee.com)

Andrew Kenneth Moss

FIGHT AND INTIMACY DIRECTOR

From: Corning, New York.

LA Opera: Il Trovatore (2021, debut); Aida (2022); Lucia di Lammermoor (2022); Tosca (2022); Otello (2023); Don Giovanni (2023); Highway 1, USA (2024); La Traviata (2024).

About: He has worked on productions including Armida at the Metropolitan Opera, SAFE at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, A Little Night Music at the Huntington Theatre Company, Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain at Music Academy of the West and Carmen, Don Giovanni, I Puritani and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek at Boston Lyric Opera. New York credits 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. He staged combat for Dead Man Walking, West Side Story, The Seven Deadly Sins and Oklahoma! as resident fight director at Central City Opera. He has been a guest artist/instructor at the University of Oklahoma, Boston University and New England Conservatory.

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PHOTO BY NATE LUSK

Angela Meade

TURANDOT

SOPRANO

From: Centralia, Washington.

LA Opera: Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (2012, debut); title role in Norma (2015); Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux (2020).

About: Angela Meade is the winner of both the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2011 Richard

Tucker Award. In 2008, she joined an elite group of history’s singers when she made her professional operatic debut on the Metropolitan Opera stage as Elvira in Ernani. She is now recognized as one of today’s outstanding vocalists, excelling in the most demanding heroines of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire as well as in the operas of Verdi and Mozart. Upcoming appearances include the title role of Turandot at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Schönberg’s Erwartung at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera, and the title role of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. (AngelaMeade.com)

Guanqun Yu

LIÙ

From: Shandong, China.

SOPRANO

LA Opera: Rosina in The Ghosts of Versailles (2015, debut); Countess in The Marriage of Figaro (2015); Vitellia in The Clemency of Titus (2019); Leonora in Il Trovatore (2021); Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (2023).

About: She is a regular guest at international opera houses in Europe and America. This season’s engagements include the title role of Aida at the Frankfurt Opera and Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Hamburg State Opera. Her engagements last season included Verdi’s Requiem at the Dutch National Opera and with the Royal Danish Symphony Orchestra, Micaëla in Carmen at the Hamburg State Opera and Elvira in Ernani at the Festspielhaus Bregenz. She has performed Liù in Turandot at the Met and in Paris, Hamburg, Zurich, Cologne and Bregenz; Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Met and in Bologna; Desdemona in Otello in Valencia, Berlin and Hamburg; and Mimì in La Bohème in Zurich and Munich. (GuanqunYu.com)

Russell Thomas

CALÀF TENOR

From: Miami, Florida.

LA Opera: Pollione in Norma (2015, debut); Cavaradossi in Tosca (2017); Titus in The Clemency of Titus (2019); title role in Oedipus Rex (2020); Signature Recital (2021); Radames in Aida (2022); title role in Otello (2024).

Upcoming: Fire and Blue Sky (2024). He has been Artist in Residence since 2020. About: Appearances this season include his role debut as Parsifal at Houston Grand Opera, Radames in Aida with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cavaradossi in Tosca at Covent Garden and Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino with the Norwegian Opera, along with concerts and recitals with the Edinburgh International Festival, Chicago Symphony, St. Louis Symphony and at the Kennedy Center. His recent Verdi performances include Otello in Toronto and London, Ernani in Chicago, Manrico in Munich, Radames in Houston, Stiffelio in Frankfurt, and Don Alvaro in Berlin and Paris.

(RussellThomasTenor.com)

Morris Robinson

TIMUR BASS

From: Atlanta, Georgia.

LA Opera: Sarastro in The Magic Flute (2009, debut); Fasolt in Das Rheingold (2009, 2010); Oroveso in Norma (2015); Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio (2017); Zaccaria in Nabucco (2017); Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo (2018); Parsi Rustomji in Satyagraha (2018); Tiresias in Oedipus Rex (2021); Ferrando in Il Trovatore (2021); Hermann in Tannhäuser (2021); Ramfis in Aida (2022); Lodovico in Otello (2023). About: He is Artistic Advisor for Atlanta Opera and Cincinnati Opera. He regularly performs at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera, and with orchestras including the NY Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Future roles include Ramfis and the King in Aida at the Met, Banquo in Macbeth in Atlanta and Hagen in Götterdämmerung (Act 3) with the BSO at Tanglewood. (MorrisRobinson.com)

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Ryan Wolfe

PING

BARITONE

From: Arlington Heights, Illinois. LA Opera: Jailor in Tosca (2022, debut); Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia (2023); title role of Moses (2023); Herald in Otello (2023); Fiorello in The Barber of Seville (2023); Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata (2024). He joined the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program last season. About: Recent appearances elsewhere include Le Dancaïre in Carmen with Des Moines Metro Opera and the premiere of Chris Thile’s Attention! (at the Hollywood Bowl) as well as the Steersman in Tristan und Isolde with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This summer, he will be a Filene Young Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, performing the role of Lt. Gordon in Silent Night by Kevin Puts. (RyanWolfeBaritone.com)

Julius Ahn

PONG

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Terrence Chin-Loy

PANG TENOR

From: Coral Springs, Florida. LA Opera: debut. About: Appearances this season include Roméo in Roméo et Juliette and Victor Frankenstein in the world premiere of Gregg Kallor’s Frankenstein with Arizona Opera and Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road with Virginia Opera. Recent appearances include his Metropolitan Opera debut in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Tamino in The Magic Flute with Taiwan’s National Taichung Theater and at Arizona Opera, Don José in Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center, Acis in Acis and Galatea with Eugene Opera, and concerts with the North Carolina Symphony, Caramoor Festival and Boise Philharmonic. (TerrenceChinLoy.com)

TENOR

From: Seoul, South Korea. LA Opera: Gastone in La Traviata (2024, debut). About: His engagements this season include Goro in Madama Butterfly with Detroit Opera and the four Valet Tenors in The Tales of Hoffmann with Palm Beach Opera. He has performed Goro, his signature role, with companies including San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera and at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Other recent appearances include the lead role in Byron Au Yong’s Stuck Elevator for Nashville Opera, Borsa in Rigoletto with Dallas Opera, Mime in Das Rheingold with Atlanta Opera, Bardolf in Sir John in Love with Bard Music Festival and his Metropolitan Opera debut in The Magic Flute. (JuliusAhn.com)

Alan Williams

MANDARIN BASS

From: San Bernardino, California. LA Opera: Abe in Omar (2022, debut); ten roles to date including Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia (2023); Masetto in Don Giovanni (2023); Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata (2024). He joined the DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program last season. About: Last year, he performed Neptune in Idomeneo with Aspen Opera Theater and King Arkel in Impressions de Pelléas with James Conlon at The Ebell of Los Angeles. He was a 2022 apprentice at Des Moines Metro Opera, where he performed Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He will return there this summer as the First Soldier in Salome and as the Physician in Pelléas et Mélisande.

Ashley Faatoalia

EMPEROR ALTOUM TENOR

From: Los Angeles, California. LA Opera: Crab Man in Porgy and Bess (2007, debut); Sage/Counselor in The Festival Play of Daniel (2010); Habakkuk in The Festival Play of Daniel (2012); the Digital Short We Hold These Truths (2022); Simon/Pharisee in The Three Women of Jerusalem (2022); Amadou in Omar (2022). He works regularly with LA Opera Connects as a teaching artist. About: He created the role of Antron’s father in the premiere of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Central Park Five with Long Beach Opera. Recent appearances include the Crab Man in Porgy and Bess with Seattle Opera, Marco Polo in Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities with The Industry and Remus in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha in Toronto. (AshleyFaatoalia.com)

During your visit today, we invite you to explore the artistic legacy of David Hockney by enjoying a free retrospective of his work on the third floor of the theater.

Self Portrait, 20 March 2012 © David Hockney

LA OPERA CHORUS

SOPRANO

April Amante

Christina Borgioli*

Lisa Crave*

Ayana Haviv

Terri Hill*

Stephanie Jones

Michaela Kelly

Elizabeth Lee

ALTO

Elizabeth Anderson

Natalie Beck***

Sarabeth Belón

Danielle Bond

Aleta Braxton***

Molly Burnside

Sara Campbell*

Veronica Christenson**

TENOR

Daniel Coy Babcock

James Callon

Christopher Craig

Omar Crook*

Corey Estelle

Adam Faruqi

Sung Bong Kim

Charles Lane**

BASS

Paul Chwe MinChul An

Tim Campbell

Ralph Cato

Abdiel González*

Robert Hovencamp**

Jared Jones

Mark Kelley**

David Kress*

Virenia Lind**

Claire Pegram

Lori Stinson*

Courtney Taylor*

Janet Todd

Rebecca Tomlinson**

Sunjoo Yeo

Yewon Ella Yoon

Clara Chung

Kelly Krantz*

Adriana Manfredi

Julia Metzler

Bonnie Snell Schindler

Jessie Shulman

Jennifer Wallace**

JJ Lopez

Francis Lucaric**

Sal Malaki***

Robert Norman

Solomon Reynolds

Todd Strange*

Daniel Suk

E. Scott Levin

Gabriel Manro*

Steven Pence*

James Martin Schaefer*

Tim Smith**

Michael Washington

David Williams

* Has appeared in 50 or more productions

** Has appeared in 100 or more productions

*** Has appeared in 150 or more productions

LOS ANGELES CHILDREN’S CHORUS

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Madeleine Cham

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Jerald Flick

Sofia Gaffigan

Hannah Jones

Sophia Lalín

Emiliano Lara-Aguilar

Amanda Moore

DANCERS

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Isabella Caso

Laurie Deziel

Anna Dreslinski

Sierra Fujita

LA OPERA ORCHESTRA

FIRST

VIOLIN

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STUART CANIN

CONCERTMASTER

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ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Lisa Sutton

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Margaret Wooten

Hana Kim

Olivia Tsui

Lucinda Chiu

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Radu Pieptea

Heather Powell

Matthew Oshida

Gerardo Hilera

SECOND VIOLIN

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PRINCIPAL

Ina Veli

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

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Leslie Katz

Michele Kikuchi

Cynthia Moussas

Loránd Lokuszta

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VIOLA

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PRINCIPAL

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ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

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Dmitri Bovaird

Diana Wade

Kate Vincent

Alma Fernandez

Aaron Oltman

CELLO

John Walz

PRINCIPAL

Michael Kaufman

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

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Helen Altenbach

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Audra O'Dair

Aurora Patlan

John Preston

Madison Shen

Naysa Shokeen

Samuel Slavin

Leah Taylor

Ava Villacorta

Allen Wang

Isabelle Wu

Mia Moraru, swing

Marc Myron

Kittrell Poe

Owen Scarlett

Maxwell Simoes

BASS

Nathan Farrington

PRINCIPAL

Frances Liu Wu

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Tim Eckert

Sukyung Chun

Eric Shetzen

FLUTE

Heather Clark PRINCIPAL

Angela Wiegand

Sarah Weisz, piccolo

OBOE

Leslie Reed

PRINCIPAL

Jennifer Cullinan

Sarah Beck, English horn

CLARINET

Stuart Clark PRINCIPAL

Donald Foster

Stephen Piazza, bass clarinet

BASSOON

William May PRINCIPAL

Damian Montano

William Wood, contrabassoon

HORN

Steven Becknell PRINCIPAL

Daniel Kelley

Jenny Kim

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

James Atkinson

TRUMPET

Ryan Darke

PRINCIPAL

David Washburn

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Steve O’Connor

TROMBONE

William Booth

Charles Tyler

PRINCIPAL

Alvin Veeh

Terry Cravens, bass trombone

generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

TUBA

James Self

PRINCIPAL

HARP

JoAnn Turovsky

PRINCIPAL

Allison Allport

CELESTE

Lucas Nogara

PRINCIPAL

KEYED GLOCKENSPIEL AND ORGAN

Nicholas Roehler

PRINCIPAL

TIMPANI

Gregory Goodall

PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION

Theresa Dimond

PRINCIPAL

John Wakefield

Dante Luna

Cash Langi

BANDA

TRUMPET

Erick Jovel

Drew Ninmer

Miles McAllister

Rob Frear

Jennifer Marotta

Dylan Girard

TROMBONE

Dillon MacIntyre

Tiffany Johns

Liam Wilt

Ken Kugler

SAXOPHONE

Sal Lozano

Damon Zick

Brady Steel

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

MANAGER

Melisandra Dunker

MUSIC LIBRARIAN

Stuart Canin Concertmaster

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

SUPERNUMERARIES

Mercedes Amezcua

Ryan Benson

Jessenia Blackstone

Adam Chisnall

Corinne Chooey

Tony Cronin

Jeff Cook*

Lawrence Dillard

Michael Drebot

Donna Gale* Dane Halvorson

Jackson Janowicz

Michael John*

Slim Khezri

Ruffy Landayan

Andrew Lemus

Theodore Martinez

Howard Morales

* Has appeared in 25 or more productions

Gabriel Navarro

Joshua Olkowski

Kristen Refermat

Karola Sánchez

Elliott Santos

Ryan Shervington*

Harrison White

Angela Yee

Lurdes Zapata

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

Azra King-Abadi

SUPERTITLE PREPARATION / CUER

Linda Zoolalian

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS

Arturo Fernandez, Jr.

Lesley Gonzalez

Lisa Kable-Blanchard*

HEAD STUDIO TEACHER

Marie Wilson-Rogers

STUDIO TEACHER

Albert Barrientos

LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS, CHORUS SERVICES MANAGER

Deb Stark

* More than 50 productions

COSTUME SHOP

Brent Bruin

Lindsey Ellison

Robbie Monsod

JoEllen Skinner

Enrique Urbina CUTTER/DRAPERS

Alexandra Babec

Adle Smithson

Clara Weidman

Haley Williams FIRST HANDS

Rosa Limon-Cervantes

Blanca Miranda

Carmen Muñoz

Anna Wong SEAMSTERS

Wing Cheung MASTER TAILOR

Manuel Medina

Kelvin Small, Jr. TAILORS

Joseph Aragon

Dahlia Gonzalez

Alexa Marron CRAFTSPERSONS

Miranda Orellana

Haley Silver

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Emily Frank

Rhiannon Smith COSTUME ASSISTANTS

Jacqueline Colindres Paz

Gwyneva Rosales

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WARDROBE

Lee Smilek

HEAD OF WARDROBE

Mary Basile

Charlyn Trenier WARDROBE ASSISTANTS

Charlie Fleiss

Shelley Graves-Jimenez

Mary Lehman

Glen Moore

Tyrell Pickett

Danyele Thomas SEASONAL DRESSERS

WIGS AND MAKE-UP

Samantha Wiener WIGMASTER

Danielle Richter

ASSOCIATE WIGMASTER

Brandi Strona DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR & CREW FOREMAN

Nicole Rodrigues

Morgan Sellers

SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTISTS

Nathalie Eidt

Kelso Millett WIG & MAKE-UP ARTISTS

Jacki Nocerino LEAD STYLIST

STAGE CREW

Scott Papez OPERA CARPENTER

Robert Colby Klein OPERA ELECTRICIAN

David Salas OPERA ASSISTANT CARPENTER

Alerton Perez ASSISTANT ELECTRICIAN

Scott Shepherd OPERA PROPERTY MASTER

Heather Orozco OPERA HEAD AUDIO

Kelly Richard Travis OPERA HEAD VIDEO

Brad Cobb OPERA AUDIO ENGINEER

DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION HOUSE STAFF

Timothy L. Conroy MASTER CARPENTER

Ryan Lebetsamer HOUSE HEAD ELECTRICIAN

Dennis Holbrook MASTER OF PROPERTIES

Todd Reynolds 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-Colburn-Stein 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 Special support for young artist stipends is graciously provided by The Lenore and Richard Wayne Young Artist Fellowship. Additional support provided by 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.

2023/24 PARTICIPANTS

Manuel Arellano PIANIST/COACH

Deepa Johnny MEZZO-SOPRANO

Anthony León TENOR

Madeleine Lyon MEZZO-SOPRANO

Lucas Nogara PIANIST/COACH

Kathleen O'Mara SOPRANO

Sarah Saturnino MEZZO-SOPRANO

Alan Williams BASS

Ryan Wolfe BARITONE

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, 2023. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Los Angeles Opera.

LA 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

Lina González-Granados RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

Jeremy Frank CHORUS DIRECTOR

Russell Thomas ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Renée Fleming ADVISOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS

Susan Graham ARTISTIC ADVISOR, YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Patricia McLeod

SENIOR DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT

Paul Hopper

SENIOR DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC PLANNING

Eric Bornemann

SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING

Chul Park

SENIOR DIRECTOR, TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

ARTISTIC

Blair Salter

HEAD COACH, YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Nicki Harper

DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Maya Ordóñez MANAGER, ARTISTIC PROGRAMS AND REHEARSAL

BOX OFFICE

Shane K. Morton

BOX OFFICE TREASURER

Shawnet Sweets

FIRST ASSISTANT TREASURER

Dale Bridges Johannsen

Michael Meyer

Brenda Roman

Andrew Tomasulo

Susan Wong

SECOND ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Joseph Howells

Joseph Selway

THIRD ASSISTANT TREASURERS

Kiana Culpepper

Liz Mancia

Andy Phu

TICKET SELLERS

CONNECTS

Natalie Ramirez DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Adam LeBow

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

Tate Shoebridge PROGRAM MANAGER

Jake Ryan Lindsey

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

Kirsten Anderson

COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

Victoria Mestas

OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

Eli Villanueva

RESIDENT STAGE DIRECTOR

COSTUMES

Jeannique Prospere COSTUME DIRECTOR

Wade Mueller

TEMPORARY BUSINESS MANAGER, COSTUME DEPARTMENT

Corrine Roache PRODUCTION, STOCK & RENTAL COORDINATOR

Manuel Garcia WAREHOUSE MANAGER

John Musselman

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Neal Anderson MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATE

DEVELOPMENT

Joslyn Treece DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

Janneke Straub DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP GIFTS

Josh Harrold

DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS

Christian Johnsten ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR AND PLANNED GIFTS

Kellynn Meeks

SENIOR BOARD AND EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR

Robin Green EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND OFFICE MANAGER

Zade Dardari ANNUAL FUND SPECIALIST

Kylie Smith ANNUAL FUND COORDINATOR

INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Benji Railton-Ashe DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Weston Olson SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Evangeline Santos MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Claudia Giugni INDIVIDUAL GIVING COORDINATOR

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Meredith Ernstberger

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING OFFICER/ GRANT WRITER

Olivia Adair

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING COORDINATOR

SPECIAL EVENTS

Jill Michnick DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS AND SPONSORSHIPS

Caitlin Harper EVENTS DESIGN SPECIALIST

FINANCE

Deborah Gould CONTROLLER

Sandra Vazquez DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING

Daisy Lopez PAYROLL MANAGER

Brian Stefanko ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER

Jing Hu ACCOUNTING 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

Caroline Boyce ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN

PRODUCTION

Michelle Magaldi

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR

Jasna Gara

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Whitney McAnally PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Marlene Meraz DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Mark Lyons

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS

Melanie Broussalian

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND VIDEO

Daniel Calderon CONTENT MEDIA SPECIALIST

SALES AND MARKETING

Elizabeth Galvan ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LOYALTY MARKETING

Keith J. Rainville

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, BRAND & DESIGN

Pauline Hwa

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ACQUISITION MARKETING

Terrance Lovecraft

INTERACTIVE & GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Yesenia Vargas

MARKETING STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Victoria Rey

MARKETING ASSISTANT

TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT

Jeff Kleeman

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Carolina Angulo

DESIGN MANAGER

Margie Schnibbe

TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATOR

James Pomichter

PRODUCTION MEDIA MANAGER

Lisa Coto

PROPERTIES COORDINATOR

Damon Schindler

RESIDENT LEAD SCENIC ARTIST

Chris Carey

TECHNICAL PAYROLL OFFICER

Stephanie Santiago TECHNICAL MANAGER

Violet Smith LIGHTING ASSISTANT

Mailie Varian

LIGHTING ASSISTANT

Dani Monterroso

TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Michael Masuda

NETWORK MANAGER

Tommy Mam

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES MANAGER

Alex Badali

Jordan Tan

Brian Urrutia APPLICATIONS ADMINISTRATORS

ACADEMY INTERNS

Scarleth Arias

Diego Castro

Elise Fukuda

Alan Munoz

Elisa Raya

Cristian Venegas

CONSULTANTS

Leonard Samuels (Zayde Creative) KEY ART DESIGN

Stephen King

HEAD OF VOCAL INSTRUCTION

DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Studio Fuse GRAPHIC DESIGN

Marlinda Menashe DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT

25th Anniversary Angels

MARC STERN, CHAIR

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

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

The 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

The Seaver Family

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

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

Carol and Warner Henry

Alfred and Claude Mann

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

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

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Flora L. Thornton

Marilyn Ziering

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

Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

The Skirball Foundation

Flora L. Thornton Foundation

Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley /

Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

Founding Angels

WARNER HENRY, CHAIR

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

Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Ash

Dorothy Collins Brown

Mr. Richard D. Colburn

The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation Forman Family Foundation

Gordon Getty

The Emese and Leonard Green Foundation

Carol and Warner Henry

Opera League of Los Angeles

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.

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Anonymous

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GRoW @ Annenberg

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Colburn Foundation

Cosgrove Family Trust

Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman / Pacific Theatres Foundation

Dunard Fund USA

Penelope Foley

Valerie Franklin Estate

Gemini Industries, Inc.

Gordon Getty

Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Opera Fund

DIAMOND PATRON ($250,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

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Ana and Robert Cook

Estate of Lea Danberg

Leslie and John Dorman

Nancy Geller Trust

Carol and Warner Henry

Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Margo Leavin

Nanette and Keith Leonard

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Janice Hahn

Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath

Claude Mann and Alfred E. Mann Estate

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco

The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund

(Tara Colburn)

Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

Andrea and Janie Pessino

Estate of Cat Pollon

Suzanne Rheinstein, in honor of Fred Rheinstein

Peter and Diane Gray

The Green Foundation

Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, M.D.

Latham & Watkins, LLP

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Dan Murphy Foundation

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Anonymous (3)

Patricia Artigas and Lucas Etchegaray

Stanley Black; in memory of Joyce Black

The Blue Ribbon

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Max H. Gluck Foundation

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Patty and Ken McKenna

James Mulally

The Music Man Foundation

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PLATINUM PATRON ($100,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (2)

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The Armenian Consortium

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Charitable Foundation

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De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

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Manuel Gutierrez, in memory of George Sponhaltz

Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera

Joan H. Hotchkis

Freya and Mark Ivener

Richard Kendall and Lisa See

Lawrence A. Kern

LGHG Foundation, in memory of

Louise Garland

L.L. Foundation for Youth

David Niemetz and Noriko Tachibana

Ronus Foundation

Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr., Trust

Ariane and Lionel Sauvage

The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera

Eugene and Marilyn Stein

Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

Ms. Barbara Augusta Teichert

Emanuel Treitel Trust

US Small Business Administration

Gregory and Régina Weingarten

Marilyn Ziering

Ann Ziff

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

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP

Wells Fargo

Barry and Nancy Sanders

David Sanders Living Trust

Laura and Carlton Seaver

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Christopher V. Walker

The Opera League of Los Angeles

In loving memory of our beloved parents, Ted and Hedy Orden

Dr. Heinrich and Barbara Schelbert

Susan R. Shapiro

Thurmond Smithgall and The Lanie & Ethel Foundation

South Coast Plaza

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Jane D. Zimmerman Trust

THE OPERA COUNCIL

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)

Ahsan Aijaz

Mr. Haig S. Bagerdjian

Barbara Burtin

California Arts Council

Susan Lord and Scott Richard Lord

OPERA America/Opera Fund

Linda Pierce

Caroline and Andrew Randall, in memory of Ann Ronus

Michelle Rohé

John and Gill Wagner

“You are all magicians. When I come to LA Opera, I enter a world of beauty. You always lift me to heights I’d never reach on my own.” —Lisa (donor)

GRAND GOLD PATRON ($50,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation

Mr. James Asperger and Ms. Christine Adams

Raffaela and John Belanich

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Paul and Marie-France Bloch Fund at The Miami Foundation

Lynn A. Booth and Kent Kresa

The Otis Booth Foundation

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Elsa and Craig Donohue

GOLD PATRON ($25,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (5)

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Maria Altmann; in memory of Fritz Altmann

Shirley Barasch Family Trust

Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter

Thomas and Judith Beckmen

Beverly Hills Porsche

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Ginger Conrad

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Goldman Sachs & Co.

Sally and Irwin Goldstein

Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Em Green

Gary Gugelchuk

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Mr. Robert Finnerty and Mr. Richard Cullen

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Betty L. Hall Trust

Ms. Janet Jones

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Renee and Meyer Luskin / Scope Industries

LLWW Foundation

The Rafael and Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation

Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Wendy and Ken Ruby

Nicolas Hamatake

In memory of Morris A. Hazan

Catherine and Mark Helm

HUB International Insurance Brokers

Mr. and Mrs. David K. Ingalls

Rian Johnson

Tim Johnson and Jean Cunningham

Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Jones

James P. Kelley and Joseph W. Lund

William and Priscilla Kennedy

Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

Merrill Lynch

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

Carolyn L. Miller, in honor of Chaz’men Williams-Ali

Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Mollura, Sr.

Anthony and Olivia Neece

Dr. Leslie A. Pam and Dr. Ann Christie

Petersen / Esper A. Petersen Foundation

George and Terry Schreyer

Tina L. Segel

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Seidel

Dr. Vina Spiehler

Alan and Janet Stanford

Jay and Deanie Stein

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Stein

James and Ellen Strauss

Mrs. Laney G. Techentin

Warren and Mimi Techentin

Paul and Catherine Tosetti

Brigitta B. Troy

Estate of Monica Weil and Paul Schrade

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

Joakim Zetterberg and Fredrik Malmberg

The Louis and Harold Price Foundation

Mrs. Rita Coveney Pudenz

Courtney Reum

Koni and Geoff Rich

Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Mimi Rotter

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders‡

Edward A. and Ai O. Shay Family Foundation

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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

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GRAND SILVER BENEFACTOR ($20,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

Emily Arms and Steven Johnson

Bank of America Foundation

Allen Briskin and Gerry Hinkley

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Eisenberg

Mr. and Mrs. David Elmore

Dr. Ronald Gabriel

Linda and Bobby Hanada

Lenny‡ and David Kelton

Judith S. Mishkin

Eduard Morf

PREMIER SILVER BENEFACTOR ($15,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous

Kay Anderle

Susan and L. David Cole

The Sirpuhe and John Conte Foundation

Laura Donnelley and the Good Works Foundation

First American Title Insurance Co.,

National Commerical Services

Further Global Capital Management / Olivier Sarkozy

SILVER BENEFACTOR ($10,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (5)

Manny Abascal

John and Linda Kay Abdulian

Adams/Cohen Family

Adar Family Trust

Rachel and Bulent Altan

Patti and Harlan Amstutz

Margaret Campbell Arvey

Esther M. Baird and Stanley Fimberg

Jill C. Baldauf and Steven L. Grossman

Mrs. Any Yakoub-Barr and Mr. Michael Barr

Sandy Behrens

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Beim

Dr. Sheldon D. Benjamin and Constance Chesnut

Beatrice and Paul Bennett, in honor of A. Coulombe

Leah S. and Gregory M. Bergman

Anne Boundy

Lisa Bratkovich

Warren Breslow and Gail Buchalter

Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cannon

Canyon Partners, LLC

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

Laurel K. Clark

Claytor Family Foundation

V. Shannon and Pamela Clyne

Corinna Cotsen and Lee N. Rosenbaum

Myron and Margie Crain

Elizabeth Hofert Dailey Fund

Dain Torpy/Tim Pecci

Drs. Nazareth and Ani Darakjian

Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Dickerson

Tom Dolby

Mr. Michael Dreyer; in memory of Warner Henry

Betty and Brack Duker

Susan and John Ebey

Ms. Gail Eichenthal

Danielle Nelson Erem and Vivian Nelson

Stephen M. Erhart

Dr. Randall T. Espinoza

GRAND BENEFACTOR ($7,000 & ABOVE)

Anonymous (3)

Jerome M. Applebaum

Linda Maddocks Brown

Nicholas Chrisos

Marie M. Cohen and Jared Diamond

Cecelia Cole

Ms. Sheila Coop

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

In memory of Maggi Gordon

Monica Gutierrez-Roper and Trevor Roper

Diane Henderson

Suzanne Kayne

Keller Anderle LLP

Jennifer L. Keller

Michael and Stephanie Landes

Anita Lorber

Emily and Sam Mann

David and Marianna Fisher

Alan J. Freeman

Dr. Elizabeth Short and Dr. Michael Friedman

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation

Kiki and David Gindler

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Gramling

Beverly and Felix Grossman

Alma Guzman and Susan Stamberger

Jessica Harper

J. Ira and Nicki Harris Foundation

Betty Hayman

Robert and Denise Hayman

Claire and Robert Heron

Freddi and Dr. Kenneth D. Hill

Linda Joyce Hodge

Chase Hodge-Brokenburr

Patricia Houston; in loving memory of

Chet Houston

Dr. Ronald Hopkins

Stuart and Simone Isen

Stella Jeong and Randall Lee

Bruce Johansen

Ms. Ratna Jones

Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.

Elaine F. Kramer

Renee Kumetz

Edward and Marie Lewis

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

Mrs. Synne Hansen Miller

Ms. Judy Miner

Mintz

Carol Mitchell

Nancy-Gene Morrison

Harry and Cheryl Nadjarian

Barbara and Norman S. Namerow

Gregory Nava and Barbara Martinez Jitner

Michele M. Crahan

Patrick Dickey

Dr. and Mrs. William M. Duxler

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

Dr. Jon Fellows and Judith Hemenway

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

Mrs. Elaine Galanti

The family of Dr. Armin and Barbara Sadoff

Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation

Terry and Dennis Stanfill

Karen and William Timberlake

Michael Weber and Frances Spivy-Weber

Linda May and Jack Suzar

Mr. and Mrs. David Mgrublian

The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

The Stephen Philibosian Foundation

The Recording Industries’ Music Performance Trust Fund

The SahanDaywi Foundation

Evy and Fred Scholder Family

Chris and Dick Newman / C and R Family Foundation

Michael Nohaile and Kristin Yarema

Carolyn R. Novin

Christine Marie Ofiesh

Orange County Opera

William and Carol Ouchi

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

Thomas Patrick and Stephen Rulo

John S. Perkins

Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer

Ali Razi and Shelley Reid

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

Jutta Romero

Lars Roos and Dr. Estelita Calica Roos

Mrs. Barbara C. Rosenthal

Matthew and Jennifer Rowland

Sakana Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Sawchuk

Amy and Andy Schwartz

Dr. Sharron L. Seal and Mr. Lawrence Seal

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Dr. Bertrand and Joan Shapiro

Eric L. Small

Mr. Burnie Sparks; in memory of Warner Henry

Bette I. Tatge

Michael and Suzanne Tennenbaum

Kyle Thorpe

Mr. and Mrs. Andy Torosyan

Elinor and Rubin Turner

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ulman

Nancy Valentine

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

Larry and Marlis Gilman

Nancy Katayama

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Landry

June and Simon K.C. Li

Mrs. Isabel Markovits-Rosenberg

James and Grace McAdams

Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Muthen

Ernest and Anne Prokopovych

PATRONS OF LA OPERA

GRAND BENEFACTOR ($7,000 & ABOVE)

Cliff and Toni Reston

Elizabeth Loucks Samson

Robert and Linda Smith

Charles Souw, in loving memory of Bill Maldonado

PREMIER BENEFACTOR ($5,000 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (7)

The Maurice Amado Foundation

The Amphion Foundation, Inc.

Anne Andrews and John Thornton

Aversa Foundation

Ruth Bachofner

Ms. Sunny Baey

William Blair

Judith F. Blumenthal

Employees Community Fund of Boeing

Bonnie Brae

Gary and Johanna Brown

Mrs. Michele Brustin

Michael and Tania Cahill

Todd L. Calvin

Evelyn and Stephen Cederbaum

Diana and Marc Chazaud

Laura K. Christa

Rhoda Coleman, in loving memory of Howard Coleman

Christina and Bill Conkle

Ms. Joanne Dallas Davis/Dauray Family Fund

Jack and Barbara Dawson

Jennifer Diener

David A. Drummond

Linda L. Duttenhaver

Susan Edelstein

Helen Funai Erickson

Mr. Robert Estrin, in memory of Mary Lloyd Estrin

Evelyn & Norman Feintech Family Foundation

Theodore Finney Hill

Mr. and Mrs. Don Erik Franzen

Elisabeth and Tony Freinberg

Ronald Frydman

Dr. and Mrs. Santo Galanti

Dr. Patricia Goldring

Charles and Marian Goldsmith

Patrick and Mary Goshtigian

Wendy and Luis Guerrero

Manuel R. Gutierrez

Marie O. Hedlund

BENEFACTOR ($3,500 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (6)

In memory of Dr. Yoshio Akiyama

Honey Amado

Nathan Anderson-Papillion

Patrick Anderson and Ron Koren

Mr. Robert C. Anderson

Linda Antonioli; in memory of Kenny Antonioli

Ron and Perky Apperson

Shirley Ashkenas; in memory of Irving Ashkenas

David Baltimore and Alice Huang

Howard Barmazel

Randall C. Bassett

Shelley and Rick Bayer

Christine Benchay

John R. Benfield and Mary Ann Shaw

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bennion

Dr. Dietmar P. Berger

Leigh Lindsey and Andrew Blaine

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. Joseph Cochran

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

David L. and Susan H. Hirsch

In Sook Hong

Cameron Hotchkis

Dr. Judith Hyman

Ms. Marsha Hymanson

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

Elizabeth and Nicandro Juárez

Jee Sung and Hun Ku Kang

Mr. Howard B. Klein

Ellen and Harvey Knell

Mr. Joel and Mrs. Sharon Koppelman

KPMG LLP

Sherry Lansing and William Friedkin

C. Deborah Laughton; in memory of

Charles (Terry) Hendrix

Larry Layne and Sheelagh Boyd

Christine and Jay Lee

Mr. Leonard Levine and Dr. Mateo Ledezma

Marilyn Lightner

The Lilly Family Foundation

Lilly Fong Liu

Mr. Mark Loewen

Mr. Paul Lombardi and Mr. Jeffrey B. Soref

Dr. Liana Lucaric Boghossian

Mr. Nigel Lythgoe

John and Jill Manly

Tracey Alden Martin

Edeltraud McCarthy

Jennifer and Mark McCormick

Mr. Richard J. Meyer

Bo Mills

Cindy Miscikowski

Mr. Shannon J. Morton

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

Jenny Okun and Richard Sparks

Nancybell Coe and William Burke, in honor of James Conlon

Dr. Malcolm and Gabrielle Cosgrove

Joan and Donald Damask

Michael Dillon

Mr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Doan

Dan and Carol Donlan

Larry and Jan Duitsman

Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Durow

Craig Emanuel and Deborah Zipser

Margaret Epstein

John Farrell and Corey Spivey

Joyce and Mal Fienberg

Mrs. Frances R. Flanagan

John Fleming and Kris Maine

David F. Freedman, in memory of Joan Freedman

Dr. Jerry and Jean Friedman

Scott and Elizabeth Frost

Jerome J. Glaser / International Curtain Call

Dr. and Mrs. Steven M. Goldberg

Mr. Ronald Goldman

Nora Gordon and Brent Bryan

Christine Gregory

Peter and Elizabeth Goulds

Charles F. Hanes

Dr. and Mrs. Irwin Harris

Norma A. Harris & Frank Packard III

Tracy Stone and Allen Anderson

Dennis Wasser and Ruth Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. Peter O’Malley

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Oppenheimer

Park Bixby Tower, Inc.

Partner Engineering and Science, Inc.

Mary E. Petit and Eleanor Torres

Gary and Arsine Phillips

Frank and Betty Pinkerton

Drs. Michael and Marion Quinn

Penny and Harold B. Ray

Eileen and Charles Read

Ms. Margaret Rose, in memory of Ronald Dolkart

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Rountree

Ms. Allison Sampson; in memory of Warner Henry

Brad Schlei and Jamie Price-Schlei

Robert Segal; in loving memory of Jeanne Segal

Richard and Ellyn Semler

Marilyn Shapiro

Natalie K. and Marvin S. Shapiro

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Dr. and Mrs. Neil J. Sherman

Joyce and Al Sommer

Philip Starr and Michael Simental

John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation

Yvonne Stevens and Paul Schickler

Dr. Roger D. Stewart

Dr. Julie Stindt

Philip and Kristan Swan

Mr. Eliazar Talamantez

Lisa Tatge

Dr. I. Maribel Taussig

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

Ms. Barbara A. Van Postman

Larry Verdugo

Cynthia Walk

Barbara and Ken Warner

David and Michele Wilson

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

Clemence Yi

Martin and Rosalind Zane

Jeff and Yolanda Heller

Marcia and Dr. Paul Herman

Larry and Lilia Hershenson

Mrs. Phoebe Ann Heywood

Gary Ho and Aihua Gan

Richard Holland Trust

Barbara Holman

Mr. Douglas Honig

Mrs. Maria Antonia Horne‡

Adel F. Jabour, M.D.

Punya Jain

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

Gary and Denise Kading

Gloria Kaplan

Alan and Amy Karbelnig

Drs. Nedeen and Alan Kaufman

Gayle Kirschbaum and Scott D. Baskin

Christopher Koelsch and Todd Bentjen

Ronald and Joann Kramar

Diane S. Lake

Peter and Electra Lang

Dr. Paul E. LeMal

Irwin and Rachel Levin

Dr. Cheryl D. Lew, M.D.

Mary H. Lewis

Clark and Karen Linstone

Dr. Leonard Lipman

PATRONS OF LA OPERA

BENEFACTOR ($3,500 AND ABOVE)

Robert and Susan Long

Patrick Lyden and Laurie Schechter

Gerrie Maloof

Michael and Claudia Margolis

Daniel Marshak

Ms. Faydell P. Martin

Robert Mendow

Bryan Mershon

Adam Mielke and Angel Blue Mielke

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Miller

Olga Moretti

Jane Gray Morrison

Diane Williams Murphy

Gary W. Murphy

Mr. Emory Ron Myrick

Ms. Laurice Myron

Robert and Sally Neely

Barbara and Lawrence Nevens

Mary Ruth and Jeff Newman

Jerry and Elaine Offstein

Dr. Edward O’Neill

Dr. Sophia Y. Pak, M.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Nissan Pardo

ARTISTS CIRCLE ($2,000 AND ABOVE)

Anonymous (2)

Act 1 Tours

Ms. Mary Anderson

Stephanie Barron and Max Rifkind-Barron

Heather and Stephen Bedikian

Mr. William Stewart Buettner

James and Debbie Burrows

Ms. Marion A. Cameron

Dr. and Mrs. David S. Cannom

Ms. Julia Cherry

Dr. Timothy Ching

Antonio and Hanna Damasio

Fred Dear

Donald and Jackie Feinstein

Dr. Michele A. Felix

Irwin Field and Helgard Lion

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Fishbach

Ms. Shaudi Fulp

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford M. Gage

Dr. and Mrs. Santo Galanti

Constance Towers Gavin

Grace on Earth Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Edward Helmer

Lee Hendrix

Ms. Florence A. Hoffman

Ms. Karen A. Pederson

The Muriel Pollia Foundation

Ruth Popkin

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

Peggy and Peter Preuss

Kai-Li and Hal Quigley

Madeline and Bruce Ramer

Sonia Randazzo and Family

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Reid

Fen Rhodes and Nancy Corby

Ken and Erika Riley

Craig and Janis Risch

JoAnna Rodriguez

Charleen Rohde

Diana Romero

Rikki Rosen

Paula and Allan Rudnick

Lynn and Michael Russell

Mr. and Mrs. Neal Schmale

John Schunhoff and Ken Titley

Albert Sepe

Ruth Simon

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

Ms. Nancy Irwin

William Isacoff

Brenda Izzi

Jill Kent

Marylyn and Chuck Klaus

Leana Kleinman and Mr. Jerald W. Johnson

Rosalie Kornblau

Mr. Bruce Lassen

Mr. Robert M. Lea

Ms. Janet Levin and Mr. Frank Gruber

Randall and Janell Lewis

Mr. Michael Lindsay

Ms. Blanca Lucero and Mr. Charles Romero

Joseph H. MacDonald

Kathleen Martin

Drs. Anne and Ronald Mellor

Mr. Andrew Millstein and Ms. Rosemarie Fall

Ms. Margaret Austin Moir

Dr. and Mrs. G. Arnold Mulder

Lorenzo Murguia, M.D.

Ms. Lois A. Murphy

Mr. R. Chandler Myers, Esq.

Ms. Heidi Novaes

Beatrice H. Nemlaha

Liza and Thomas Newbauer

BELLA VOCE PATRONS (IRREVOCABLE ESTATE GIFTS)

Dr. Joan E. Smiles

Judith L. Smith

Debra Vilinsky and Michael Sopher

Steven and Eleanor Sorenson

Shirley Earlise Starke-Wallace

Sidney Stern Memorial Trust

Ms. Donna Lynn Stillo

Dr. and Mrs. Edward C. Stone

Francine Swain and Robert Murdock

Mr. Andrew Tavakoli

Dr. and Mrs. Jose Torreblanca

Eve C. Van Rennes

Ms. Carol Vernon and Mr. Robert Turbin

James and Robin Walther

Martin Washton

Dr. Robert W. Weinman

Tina H. Wilson

Jan and Steve Winston

Dr. William Wishner

Dr. Judith G. Wolf

Sharon and Fillmore Wood

David A. Workman

Mr. Rudolf Ziesenhenne

Doerthe Obert

Mr. Phil Ockelmann

Ron and Pat Oguss

Michael and Beverly Phillips

Ms. Sarah Phillips

Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Pircher

Mr. Christopher A. Reed

Dr. Madison F. Richardson

Mr. Herbert Schraibman

Mr. John H. Scott

John Serpe and Tracy Maddox

Mr. Don Simkin

Mr. Lynn Foster Sipe

Ms. Katherine Sung

Rick Thomas

Michael Frazier Thompson

The Tourist Office of Spain

Marian Tully

Mary Ann Twitty

Max and Diane Weissberg

Ian and Barbara White-Thomson

Marty, Sara and Samantha Widzer

Brian Wong

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

You Belong Here

Membership at The Soraya

This is your opportunity to belong to something special. 2024-25 Members enjoy exclusive experiences such as the Member Appreciation Night, special events, artist meet-and-greets, private pre-performance artist salons, our festive holiday party, the annual Director’s Dinner in 2025, and more — as well as priority access to your preferred seats, your very own Members-only seating section, and exclusive savings when you select five or more performances. Most importantly, Member benefits are valid all season.

Beyond the benefits, Members drive our mission to present the highest caliber artists who captivate, inspire, and transport our audiences. Here, Members are part of a growing community of arts lovers connected by the joy of shared human experience. Here, Members belong.

BELLA VOCE PATRONS

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 & 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

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

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 (9)

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

Gerald Elijah/Octaveous Starr

Maureen Engelhard

Daniel Fink, M.D.

Richard Cullen and Robert Finnerty

David F. Freedman

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

Alma Guzman and Susan Stamberger

Susan D. Heard

Laura C. Hecht

Ms. Nita Heimbaugh

SUPPORTERS

BELLA VOCE PATRONS

(FUTURE GIFTS)

Bonnie Helms

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

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

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 Morrison

Barbara and Maury Mortensen

Mary Jane Myers

Gordon & Rosie Ornelas Olson

Dr. Sophia Pak

Lenore and Carl Pearlston

Janet Petersen

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Prusan

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Pudenz

Jeanne E. Roerig

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. Rogers

Mimi Rotter

Lawrence Rubenstein, Ph.D.

Frank D. Rubin

Dr. Jeanne W. Ruderman

Maged Salib

Elizabeth Loucks Samson

Melody & Warren Schubert

Mr. & Mrs. Christof E. Schwab

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Richard and Ellyn Semler

Olga Sevilla

John Jacob Shaak

Marilyn Shapiro

Lynn Foster Sipe

Melissa Siskowic

Terry & Dennis Stanfill

R. Rhoads Stephenson

Donna Stillo

James and Ellen Strauss

Ms. Amanda F. Susskind

Elisabeth Tamari

Iris & Robert Teragawa

Dr. Elaine Totten and Mr. Barclay Totten

Mrs. Ella Upsher

Dr. Michael Upsher

Rose Vardanian

LIFE’S AN ADVENTURE.

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Concert and Home Rentals

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Neupert Harpsichords (since 1868)

Schiedmayer Celesta (since 1890)

David Hockney at LA Opera

David Hockney (pictured at right with Music Director James Conlon in 2008) is a former longtime Angeleno whose paintings often capture the glory of Southern California sunshine. During LA Opera’s earliest seasons, he helped us make a splash with iconic stage designs for two operas that vastly boosted our young company’s international profile.

Die Frau ohne Schatten

Tristan und Isolde

Clockwise from top left: the 1993 cast boasted Franz Grundheber, Gwyneth Jones, Ellen Shade and James O’Neal; in 2007, the stars were Wolfgang Brendel, Linda Watson, Inga Nielsen and Robert Dean Smith; Smith as the Emperor.

Clockwise from above: Jeanine Altmeyer, Florence Quivar and William Johns in the 1987 cast; John Treleaven as Tristan and Kristinn Sigmundsson as King Marke in 2008; Treleaven and Linda Watson as the lovers, with Juha Uusitalo as Kurwenal.

Turandot

Timur

Pang

Liu

Calaf

Mandarin

Background

art by Vecteezy

SUPPORTERS

MATCHING

GIFTS

LA Opera is pleased to acknowledge the companies that support our company with matching gift programs. Under a corporate matching gift program, cash gifts from eligible employees are matched with company or corporate foundation funds. This additional contribution increases a participating employee’s membership level, enhancing their benefits and privileges of membership. Please call 213.972.7277 for more information.

AmazonSmile

Amgen Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Benevity

The Boeing Company

The Capital Group Companies

Charitable Foundation

Chevron Corporation

CNA Foundation

Colony NorthStar

Employees Community Fund of Boeing

Goldman Sachs & Co.

The J. Paul Getty Trust

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc.

Morgan Stanley

Netflix

PPG Foundation

Sempra

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Thrivent

The Walt Disney Company

Welcome to The Music Center!

Thank you for joining us.

The Music Center is your place to experience all the arts have to offer, where you can express yourself, connect with others and enjoy incredible live performances and events in our four beautiful theatres, at Jerry Moss Plaza and in Gloria Molina Grand Park.

We promise to provide you the best, safest experience possible on our campus.

Be sure to visit musiccenter.org to learn about upcoming events and performances.

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TAKE A TOUR OF THE MUSIC CENTER

Free 90-minute docent-led tours take you through the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall, along with Jerry Moss Plaza. You’ll learn about the history and architecture of the theatres along with The Music Center’s beautiful outdoor spaces.

Tours are offered daily. Check the schedule to plan a fun-filled day in Downtown L.A.!

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information.

OFFICERS

Cindy Miscikowski Chair

Robert J. Abernethy

Vice Chair

Darrell R. Brown

Vice Chair

Rachel S. Moore

President & CEO

Diane G. Medina

Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner

Treasurer

William Taylor

Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Charles F. Adams

William H. Ahmanson

Jill C. Baldauf

Susan Baumgarten

Phoebe Beasley

Thomas L. Beckmen

Kristin Burr

Dannielle Campos

Elizabeth Khuri Chandler

Amy R. Forbes

Greg T. Geyer

Joan E. Herman

Jeffrey M. Hill

Jonathan B. Hodge

Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen

Carl Jordan

Richard B. Kendall

Terri M. Kohl

Lily Lee

Cary J. Lefton

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.

Kelsey N. Martin

Susan M. Matt

Elizabeth Michelson

Darrell D. Miller

Teresita Notkin

Michael J. Pagano

Cynthia M. Patton

Karen Kay Platt

Joseph J. Rice

Melissa Romain

Beverly P. Ryder

Maria S. Salinas

Corinne Jessie

Sanchez

Mimi Song

Johnese Spisso

Michael Stockton

Philip A. Swan

Timothy S. Wahl

Jennifer M. Walske

Jay S. Wintrob

GENERAL COUNSEL

Rollin A. Ransom

DIRECTORS

EMERITI

Wallis Annenberg

Peter K. Barker

Judith Beckmen

Ronald W. Burkle

John B. Emerson **

Richard M. Ferry

Bernard A. Greenberg

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Glen A. Holden

Kent Kresa

Edward J. McAniff

Mattie McFaddenLawson

Fredric M. Roberts

Richard K. Roeder

Claire L. Rothman

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 4/17/24

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Yannick Lebrun.

Photo by Dario Calmese.

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.

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.

Janice Hahn Supervisor, Fourth District

Hilda L. Solis Supervisor, First District

Lindsey P. Horvath Chair, Third District

Kathryn Barger Chair Pro Tem, Fifth District

Holly J. Mitchell Supervisor, Second District

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

(From left to right)

Live at The Music Center

SAT 1 JUN / 8:00 p.m.

Natalie Merchant LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

SUN 2 JUN / 2:00 p.m.

Turandot LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 6/8/24

TUE 4 JUN / 7:00 p.m.

The Music Center's

Spotlight Grand Finale THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

WED 5 JUN / 8:00 p.m.

A Strange Loop CENTER THEATRE GROUP

@ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 6/30/24

JUNE 2024

THU 6 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

Joel Thompson's Fire and Blue Sky LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

SAT 8 JUN / 2:00 p.m.

Verdi's Requiem LOS ANGELES

MASTER CHORALE

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 6/9/24

SAT 15 JUN / 7:00 p.m.

Taper Legacy Reading Series

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

@ Mark Taper Forum

SUN 15 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

Renée Fleming in Recital LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

FRI 21 JUN / 7:00 p.m.

The Music Center’s Dance DTLA Bollywood THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center

FRI 21 JUN / 7:30 p.m.

The Joffrey Ballet's Anna Karenina

THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 6/23/24

FRI 28 JUN / 7:00 p.m.

The Music Center’s Dance DTLA Salsa THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center

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

Abernethy’s is a destination restaurant offering an ever-changing culinary experience. Located on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center, Abernethy’s presents emerging chefs from across Los Angeles County, who create inventive and personalized dishes inspired by the diverse people and cultures that fill the heart of Los Angeles. It’s the story of LA – related and plated by the chefs who tell it best.

Jun 21 Bollywood

Jun 28 Salsa

Jul 12 Reggaeton

Jul 19 Colombian Cumbia

Jul 26 Line Dance

Aug 2 Samba

Aug 9 Hip Hop

Aug 16 Disco

Celebrate the 20th season of The Music Center’s Dance DTLA and dance under the stars all summer long! Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center is your place to be a part of for free Friday night dance parties with easy-to-follow beginner dance lessons by top L.A. dance artists and instructors. Learn new dance styles then hit the dance floor to practice your new moves! No dance experience necessary!

Let us know you are planning to join us!

Photos by Will Tee Yang for The Music Center.

Victoria Jaiani and Alberto Velazquez.

Photo by Cheryl Mann.

Photo by Paula Lobo.