we are so grateful to the City of Santa Ana for selecting our May 2024 production of Hansel & Gretel as a recipient of over $19,000 for the Investing in the Artist Grant which will help us involve local students in the opera, subsidize family tickets (link forthcoming) and help fund our canned food donations to local […]
Lyric Opera OC’s Artistic Director, Diana Farrell, has many irons in the fire throughout the opera world. A major project, (which Lyric Opera OC will help facilitate), is commissioning a composer for her libretto, written for the Assyrian Arts Institute as they prepare a brand new opera on a grand scale based on the Assyrian […]
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Check out this interview with Artistic Director, Diana Farrell, from 2018. Dreams do come true! Who could have imagined all that we’ve achieved since 2017? […]
In 2022 LOOC presented a Carmen unlike any you’ve seen before. We started at the ending and hit every well known melody on the way back through the beginning! Enjoy this retrospective of Carmen from June 2022 at the Muckenthaler in Fullerton! […]
There’s no point in a journey if you forget where you started, right? Well on our whirlwind trip through LOOC’s history, let’s start with a brief look at our first ever production: Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. There were truly some world class singers in this group, who you’ve seen come back over and over […]
We’re having too much going down memory lane, so let’s extend our trip! This season was full of excitement, but LOOC has come a long way in a short time. Enjoy this flashback clip from February 2020 when we presented Pauline Viardot’s Cinderella in Laguna Niguel. Cell phone footage a a little Fairy Godmother style […]
Continuing our 22/23 Season review, here’s a first look at just a few highlights from Jake Heggie’s Two Remain.Impeccable Music direction from Kristin Roach and Brad Baker, Powerful staging from Scott Skiba assisted by Molly Noori, and on-stage performances from Ella Yoon, Michael O’Halloran, Phil Meyer, Emily Weinberg, Jessica Mamey, Melissa Davis, and Diana Farrell.What […]
