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Lyric Opera OC named Emerging Arts Org of 2022

June 26, 2022

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Program from our SOLD OUT Carmen

June 25, 2022

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Announcing LOOC’s FIFTH Season

June 8, 2022

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May 27, 2022

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Upcoming Shows

2022-2023 Season Tickets

October 2022

Save over 40% now through Oct 31!

LOOC's 5th Year Gala

November 3, 2022

Tip a few in your glad rags with us - it'll be a roarin' good time! Crooners, juice, and more!

Two Remain

January 29-31, 2023

"A survivor is not a hero. A survivor is... a survivor."

Roméo et Juliette

March 3, 2023

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life

La Traviata

June 2023

Toast to life, and freely frolic from joy to joy. Coming June 2023

Now's your chance to get in on the action! Join us

Now's your chance to get in on the action!
Join us in your best 1920s garb for an over the top party on November 3rd from 6:30-9:30 pm at the 1912 in Santa Ana! Help us celebrate as we kick off the season - join us with individual entry, VIP tickets, or purchase a 10-person table while they are still available!

lyricoperaoc.org/shows/2022-2023-gala

There's our gal! Check out this awesome feature fr

There's our gal! Check out this awesome feature from the LA Times on @dianafarrellsoprano and THEN grab your season tickets at lyricoperaoc.org (or just go get the tickets... that 40% discount is expiring soon!)

https://www.latimes.com/ocb2b/diana-kimberly-farrell

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...And oh by the way... in case you missed in, Jak

...And oh by the way... in case you missed in, Jake Heggie will be joining us in OC this January to work with the cast and orchestra as well as present an opening night pre-show talk on his incredible opera, Two Remain. Get those tickets NOW!

Composer JAKE HEGGIE is best known for the operas Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It’s A Wonderful Life, Three Decembers, Two Remain and If I Were You. He is currently at work on his 10th full-length opera, INTELLIGENCE, with Jawole Zollar and Gene Scheer, as well as new works for violinists Daniel Hope, Joshua Bell, the Miró Quartet and Music of Remembrance. The operas and his nearly 300 art songs have been performed extensively on five continents, championed by some of the world’s most beloved artists. With a libretto by the late Terrence McNally, Dead Man Walking has become “the most celebrated American opera of the 21st century” (Chicago Tribune) with 75 international productions since its San Francisco Opera premiere in 2000. The Metropolitan Opera has announced a new production of Dead Man Walking for a future season, directed by Ivo van Hove and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met has also announced that it will produce Moby-Dick. Recent premieres have included the song cycle “What I Miss the Most…” composed for mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton to new texts by Joyce DiDonato, Patti LuPone, Sister Helen Prejean, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Kathleen Kelly. Jamie Barton is also featured on Unexpected Shadows, a recording of Heggie’s songs released by Pentatone (2022 Grammy nominee). Songs for Murdered Sisters, a cycle to new poetry by Margaret Atwood for baritone Joshua Hopkins, was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and premiered in a film by director James Niebuhr (2022 Canadian Juno Award nominee). Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope (texts by Gene Scheer), was composed for mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and violinist Daniel Hope to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz (Pentatone). “Arguably the world’s most popular 21 st -century opera and art song composer” (The Wall Street Journal). Jake Heggie lives in San Francisco with his husband, Curt Branom. www.jakeheggie.com

The big reveal is here! We are simply bursting wit

The big reveal is here! We are simply bursting with joy to welcome Scott Skiba to the incredible production team for January's Two Remain!

Award-winning Stage Director Scott Skiba has led more than 70 new productions, earning recognition for his imaginative stage direction and dynamic physical approach to storytelling that is “masterful…ingenious…first-rate...vivid and emotionally charged." Scott serves as Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Opera Theater, where his recent production of La Traviata was named “the best professional opera production Cleveland has seen in years.”

Scott has made multiple company debuts in recent years including Pensacola Opera, Opera Tampa, Toledo Opera, Natchez Festival of Music, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera Western Reserve, Mobile Opera, and Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Scott is the recently appointed Production Director for Opera Western Reserve.

A proponent of new opera, Scott launched {NOW} Fest, Cleveland Opera Theater's annual event to create, develop, and produce new opera works, and he serves on the Chamber Opera Composition Committee for the National Opera Association. An advocate of arts education, Scott serves as Director of Opera Studies for Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, whose spring 2017 production of The Dialogues of the Carmelites and spring 2019 production of The Rake’s Progress won first place and second place respectively in the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Competition. Scott serves as Assistant Artistic Director for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Movement & Acting Instructor for Music Across the Pond. Previous appointments include: Executive Director of the Oberlin in Italy opera training program, Instructor of Voice and Opera Theater, Interlochen Arts Academy; Production Designer, East Carolina University Opera Theater, and Associate Instructor of Voice, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Resuming our announcements for this season's thril

Resuming our announcements for this season's thrilling opener, we are proud to welcome as Assistant Director, Ms. Molly Noori!

Molly Noori is an Orange County based mezzo-soprano and owner of Molly Noori Voice Studio. In addition to her performance experience, Molly has enjoyed working with academic and professional companies across the country, serving as a vocal coach, music director, stage manager, assistant director, and director for a variety of productions spanning plays, musicals, cabarets, operettas, and operas. Recent credits include High School Musical (vocal coach) with Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, A Game of Chance (director) with Opera Reimagined, and most notably, Ruddigore (vocal coach and stage manager) , The Sorcerer (music director) and Iolanthe (director) with Detroit Opera Theatre’s long running summer operetta program. Molly looks forward to 2023 which has her directing Tosca with South Coast Symphony in March and serving as assistant director for Lyric Opera OC 's production of Jake Heggie's Two Remain in January.

You may recognize our Assistant conductor from our

You may recognize our Assistant conductor from our 2021 #LOOCOffBook Series, and we are ecstatic to get him down to Southern California for a full production! A 2020 National Finalist for the American Prize in Solo Piano, pianist J BRADLEY BAKER’s performances have been heard in concert halls throughout the United States, Italy, France, and Canada. He has been recorded by the Navona Records and Centaur Records labels and broadcast on public radio stations throughout the United States and United Kingdom.

In demand as a opera pianist-coach, Baker has worked with The Glimmerglass Festival (NY), Opera Naples (FL), Chicago Summer Opera (IL), Wichita Grand Opera (KS), Natchez Festival of Music (MS), Opera Birmingham (AL), Music On Site (KS), Tabor College Opera (KS), and University of Alabama Opera Theatre (AL). As a chamber musician, Baker has presented performances at Hot Springs Music Festival, the North American Viola Institute, the International Double Reed Society Conference, and the Texas Music Teachers Association Conference. From 2016–2021, Baker was the principal pianist and celesta for Wichita Symphony Orchestra. He has also held similar roles at Hot Springs Music Festival, Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, and Cleveland Institute of Music.

Baker is the Executive Director and Music Director of Music On Site, Inc., an opera company based in central Kansas, which has a mission of increasing the accessibility of opera throughout the region by producing engaging performances at low or no cost for underserved communities. In 2021, Music On Site reached more than 12,000 individuals in thirteen performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi. Each season, Music On Site presents performances in rural communities, schools, and areas with limited access to the arts. More information on Music On Site can be found at www.musiconsite.org.

Dr. Baker is Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at Tarleton State University, in Stephenville, Texas. Baker holds degrees from North Dakota State University, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Alabama.

We are #ThrilledtOAnnounce our Conductor for Janua

We are #ThrilledtOAnnounce our Conductor for January's production of TWO REMAIN by Jake Heggie... THEEEEEEE Ms. Kristin Roach.

Kristin Roach is a Grammy-nominated pianist and international conductor with 37 new operas and 21 world premieres under her baton.

Kristin Roach is committed to the ongoing evolution of opera in the 21st century by leading newly composed works, championing underrepresented artists and creators, and training the next generation of performers.

Upcoming engagements include Two Remain for Lyric Opera of Orange County and Alcina for Lawrence Opera Theater. Recently completed projects include Thumbprint for Chautauqua Opera Theater, Suor Angelica, Curlew River, and The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Adventures of Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare for Lawrence Opera Theater, La Cenerentola for Pacific Opera Project, and Prima la musica poi la parola for Vocal Academy of Opera in Bodrum, Turkey.

Ms. Roach serves as Assistant Professor of Opera at Lawrence University, and Conductor at Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory. Previous positions include Founding Music Director of Alamo City Opera, where she conducted seventeen productions including many South Texas premieres, and Music Director of Spotlight on Opera.

Ms. Roach has prepared productions for the San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Tulsa Opera, Utah Opera, Opera San Antonio and many others.
📷: Kristian Jaime

We are delighted to share some familiar and new fa

We are delighted to share some familiar and new faces on the cast announcement for Jake Heggie's Two Remain! Ticket available for this January production NOW - link in bio

We can't wait to unveil our *incredible* Artistic Team for this production in the coming days! Who do you think these #NewToLOOC faces will be?

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