Featuring Stockhausen in an abandoned grocery store, a short film and live performance featuring the work of Verdi and Gluck, a new adaptation of Handel, and a return of Anthony Davis' The Central Park Five, LBO's 2022 season has just been announced. The 2022 season will establish a bold new vision for the company that seeks to catalyze the issues of our times through the lens of art, embraces alternative leadership models that value diversity and inclusion, creates and explores the collaborative relationships between cinematic and live opera that invite new audiences, and acknowledges that opera has the power to be relevant, provocative, and inspiring. 

Enjoy opera anywhere. Long Beach Opera is creating entirely new experiences for virtual audiences. The newly-launched cinematic trailer captures the beginnings of the incredible creative work happening at the intersection of opera and cinema. Currently made up of Entry, desert in, and amor y alma, this sweeping body of work is just the beginning of all the possibilites that are yet to be unleashed with opera and film.

Entry, a new cinematic opera project commissioned by Long Beach Opera, now has an album release on the horizon. The film project’s accompanying album is set for release on January 28th, 2022 by Animalia Music, and will also be available on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon and Deezer. Featuring soprano Anna Schubert and a libretto/poetry by Birds’ Nest Family. Driven by a frenzied score, Entry follows one woman’s journey as she revisits key moments of the last year in order to find her voice in the wake of the pandemic. The first single “Activation” has been released and is available on Spotify now!