{"id":898202,"date":"2026-06-28T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/898202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:43:11","slug":"la-operas-40th-anniversary-season-marks-growing-impact-across-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/898202\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Opera&#8217;s 40th Anniversary Season Marks Growing Impact Across Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=los+angeles+Opera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Opera<\/a> has reported that its 40th anniversary season proved to be a year of exceptional audience response, community engagement, and momentum.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 season was marked by added performances and sold-out mainstage productions to hundreds of community-based events in schools, hospitals, parks, neighborhoods and cultural centers across Los Angeles County. The season also concluded James Conlon\u2019s 20-year tenure as LA Opera\u2019s Richard Seaver Music Director. His final season featured acclaimed performances of \u201cWest Side Story,\u201d \u201cFalstaff,\u201d \u201cThe Magic Flute,\u201d \u201cNoah\u2019s Flood\u201d and the \u201cJames Conlon Farewell Concert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A major highlight was the Company\u2019s 38 percent increase in participation over the previous season. This was seen alongside a return to pre-pandemic attendance levels. The Company also increased its digital presence with its Instagram followers growing from 63K to more than 100K, while content on TikTok surpassed 2 million video views.<\/p>\n<p>LA Opera\u2019s 2025-26 season also generated significant economic activity across Los Angeles. The company\u2019s $51 million in operating expenses, together with audience spending, produced an estimated impact of $57.46 million in regional economic activity. Throughout the season, LA Opera employed more than 600 union-represented performing artists and craftspeople.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, the Company also continued to expand innovative arts-and-wellness initiatives, helping advance innovative models for arts-based wellness. Building on this work, LA Opera convened its fifth annual Arts and Health Summit led by Ren\u00e9e Fleming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season affirmed something powerful: Angelenos are returning to opera with real enthusiasm, and LA Opera is meeting that moment both onstage and across the community,\u201d said Christopher Koelsch, LA Opera\u2019s President and CEO in a press release. \u201cIt was especially meaningful to mark our 40th Anniversary Season while celebrating the extraordinary final year of James Conlon\u2019s tenure as Music Director \u2014 a legacy that has shaped this company for two decades. As we look ahead to Domingo Hindoyan\u2019s arrival, we do so with record-setting audience response, expanded civic impact, and renewed momentum for LA Opera\u2019s next chapter. Sustaining that level of artistic ambition and public service will continue to depend on a broad community of philanthropic support that makes our work possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LA Opera opens its 2026-27 season in Oct. with a new production of Bizet\u2019s \u201cCarmen\u201c by Thaddeus Strassberger.<\/p>\n<p>Read Related Stories<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Opera has reported that its 40th anniversary season proved to be a year of exceptional audience&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":898203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,106847,224,363865,5337],"class_list":["post-898202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-opera","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-opea","tag-losangeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116826617236244158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}