Experience our latest season of groundbreaking opera.
Isola World Premiere
February 3, 10 & 11, 2024
📍 Compound, Long Beach
An opera that delves into the depths of identity, challenges perceptions of time, and takes you on a transformative journey of healing. Crafted by the innovative composer Alyssa Weinberg and the visionary poet J. Mae Barizo.
Isola Cast & Creative
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![Alyssa Weinberg]()
Composer
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![J. Mae Barizo]()
Libretto
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![George R. Miller]()
Director
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![Lucy Yates]()
Music Director
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![Ariadne Greif — Trailblazing Soprano]()
Soprano
Ipsa Dixit New Production
June 1, 8 & 9, 2024
📍 Art Theatre, Long Beach
Kate Soper’s seminal “philosophy-opera” (New Yorker) with original choreography by the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Cast & Creative
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Composer
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![James Darrah]()
Director
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![Christopher Rountree]()
Music Director
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![Janet Eilber]()
Choreographer
Asunción World Premiere
July 13, 20 and 21
📍Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles
The story of a modest flower picker and her high-stakes romance with a local hacienda owner. Inspired by pop chanteuse San Cha’s celebrated 2020 album La Luz de la Esperanza.
Presented in collaboration with Latino Theater Company and East LA Creative
Cast & Creative
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![San Cha]()
Composer & Performer
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![McCall Cadenas]()
Librettist & Director
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![Darian Donovan Thomas (Photo by Oscar Moreno)]()
Music Director
OPEN AIR
A world premiere operatic film by James Darrah, Christopher Rountree and Measha Brueggergosman-Lee
Spring 2024
LBO Subscribers get an inside look at this exciting project!