A New – & Catchy – Way to Support the Opera We need your business to be a part of the show! We have FIVE sponsor spots available for The Menotti Radio Hour October 25-27! Let LOOC write, perform, and record a custom radio jingle featuring your business! Even better? We’ll get you a recording […]
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LIMITED SEASON TICKETS
This season we are taking advantage of the gorgeous facilities at OC Music & Dance, and all of our Main Stage Productions will be at our home in Irvine, located close to the 405 and 55, near John Wayne Airport, and Segerstrom Center. This intimate 100-seat theatre offers operatic performances like you’ve never experienced, and […]
24-25 Season Announced
We’re proud to share the details of our 7th Season, as well as your chance to save by becoming a season subscriber today! What better unifying theme for our 2024-2025 production lineup than a look at opera in the USA over the last hundred or so years? October 25-27, 2024: The Menotti Radio Hour!Celebrate the […]
L’Opera Petite Takes the Stage on 6/20!
Life imitating art imitating… life? Step into the craziest audition you’ve ever seen as the L’Opera Petite cast shares what goes on behind those closed audition doors! Centering around Mozart’s The Impresario, our 13 Young Artists will present an opera pastiche combining the plots of operas by Mozart, Offenbach, Hindemith, and Carriage. English and Spanish […]
LOOC: Finalist for the American Prize!
A huge congratulations to the teams behind our 2024 productions of Jake Heggie’s Two Remain! Our ensemble has just been selected as a finalist in the Opera Performance—professional division, 2024 of The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. The American Prize will be announcing winners in the division soon. You can learn […]
L’Opera Petite 2024
It’s audition time! You may fill out your audition application HERE This year each participant will perform an entire role from a standard one act or micro opera live with sets and costumes. Participants will receive audition coaching culminating in a live audition with industry professionals in Southern California and have the opportunity to audition […]
…100 years in the making
Lyric Opera of Orange County will present Ethel Smyth’s Fête Galante at the Chance Theater in Anaheim, California on March 8, 9, & 10, 2024. The production will be the West Coast premiere on the opera’s centennial with live orchestra. The orchestration is by Valerie Langfield, a UK based musicologist championing the work of Smyth. […]
Meet the Cast
We are proud to annouce our cast for March’s FETE GALANTE! Click HERE to see the full ensemble. […]
Meet the Maestri
We are thrilled to welcome two powerhouse conductors to the podium. Jacob Sustaita will be our conductor for La Boheme this January. LOOC’s Principal Conductor, Doris Lang Kosloff will be joining tht performance as the piano orchestra before taking up the baton for our highly anticipated production of Fete Galante this March! JACOB SUSTAITA Jacob […]
Triple Match Challenge Results
We were SOOOO close and even though we missed our fundraising goal by a mere $1,600, we are so grateful to everyone who donated and shared in the effort. Our sincere gratitude to the Gonzalez & Graulich families for making this a reality and continuing to bring opera to EVERYONE in Orange County and Southern […]