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Long Beach Opera Receives $300,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

Long Beach Opera (LBO) is thrilled to announce the award of a three year grant in the amount of $300,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Foundation provides multi-year arts grants on an invitation-only basis to a small number of leading US orchestras, theater, opera, and modern dance companies. The grant will support LBO’s [...]

Celebrate an Evening With Long Beach Opera at Utopia Good Food & Fine Art

Downtown Long Beach’s Arts-centric dining experience, Utopia Good Food & Fine Art, will host the Long Beach Opera on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 in the first of a monthly series of Salons spotlighting Artists and Arts organization. Andreas Mitisek, LBO Artistic and General Director, will introduce the Long Beach Opera Company and the 2011 Season, [...]

Long Beach Opera Presents US Stage Premiere of MEDEA

US Stage Premiere of MEDEA based on the original 1797 version by Luigi Cherubini Libretto by François Benoît Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry With a site-specific setting and a strong cast, LBO’s 2011 season begins with the dramatic opera MEDEA by composer Luigi Cherubini, a story of passion, rage, and revenge. LBO will be the [...]

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s MEDEA; January’s LBOpera Cinema Sunday Morning Lecture and Film Series

Maria Callas starring in her only film role. On Sunday, January 30, 2011, The LBOpera Cinema continues its popular Sunday morning lecture and film series with MEDEA by Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini. (Italian with English subtitles) “The only movie made by Maria Callas, Medea nevertheless contains not a note of the great diva singing. [...]

Long Beach Opera – “Fantastic” Picnic Concert

On Sunday October 24, 2010, Long Beach Opera in partnership with the Long Beach Museum of Art invites guests to spend the afternoon at a free picnic concert overlooking the ocean in celebration of the Long Beach GLOBAL initiative – October is Arts Month. As part of her 15-city world tour, concert pianist Michelle Schumann [...]

Progressive Dinner Party holds benefit for CANTA! on Sunday Oct., 17th

Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach will hold a casual dinner benefiting the afterschool program CANTA! on Sunday October 17, 2010. See lovely homes and good friends once more while engaging in community matters that matter to you. CANTA! is an exciting afterschool program for 4th and 5th grade students living in downtown Long Beach. Presented [...]

Tosca’s Kiss (Il Bacio di Tosca) Sunday at The Art Theatre

LBOpera Cinema presents Tosca’s Kiss (Il Bacio di Tosca) at the Art Theatre of Long Beach on Sunday August 29, 2010. Long Beach Opera (LBO) has partnered with The Art Theatre of Long Beach to bring LBOpera Cinema to the many opera lovers in Long Beach. Join fellow enthusiasts for opera films you won’t see [...]

Long Beach Opera and The Art Theatre Team up for LBO Cinema

Long Beach Opera (LBO) and The Art Theatre are teaming up to bring you this new event! Join fellow opera lovers on select Sunday mornings for a pre-movie lecture with Andreas Mitisek, coffee, mimosas, and opera films you won’t see anywhere else. On Sunday July 25th at 11am, LBO Cinema presents a lecture with Andreas [...]

The water is the stage for LBO production of Orpheus & Euridice

In the Long Beach Opera (LBO) tradition of transforming everyday places into venues for art, Met star Elizabeth Futral and Grammy-nominated clarinetist Todd Palmer will not just be performing Orpheus & Euridice by Ricky Ian Gordon at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool Complex, but rather they will be in the pool itself, adrift in a [...]

Long Beach Opera takes Diary of Anne Frank to Irvine

On May 15, Long Beach Opera will take their show on the road for a performance in Orange County for the first time. As part of the Irvine Barclay Theatre‟s 20th Anniversary Season, LBO will present Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank. Originally produced in April 2007 and previously reprised in 2008, the enthusiastic [...]

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