Event Calendar

On Wednesday, May 1, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk on Tosca at 6:30pm at Westwood Branch Library. Reservations not required.

On Saturday, May 4, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk onBehind the Scenes in Opera at 2:00pm at Glendora Public Library. Reservations not required.

On Saturday, May 5, an LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk on Benjamin Britten's Centennial Birthday at 2:00pm at The Last Bookstore.

Sex. Murder. Fame. Treachery. It’s business as usual as our crack team of LA Opera Community Educators takes on Napoleonic Rome. Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca will face the jury.

Reservations not required.

On Saturday, May 4, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk on Tosca at 3pm at Oxnard Library. Reservations not required.

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 2pm

Paramount Library

16254 Colorado Ave.
Paramount, CA 90723
(562) 630-3171

On Tuesday, May 7, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk onTosca at 6:30pm at Redondo Beach Library. Reservations not required.

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 4pm

Norwalk Library
12350 Imperial Hwy.
Norwalk, CA 90650

(562) 868-0775

May 9, 2013 at 8p

LA Opera at One Colorado, Pasadena

Get an up-close-and-personal performance of LA Opera’s Tosca! Your evening’s maestro will narrate and elucidate the opera and accompany the LA Opera singers on piano.

May 9, 2013 at 7pm

LA Opera at One Colorado, Pasadena

Get an up-close-and-personal performance of LA Opera’s Tosca! Your evening’s maestro will narrate and elucidate the opera and accompany the LA Opera singers on piano.

On Saturday, May 11, LA Opera Community Educator, Fred Hyatt, will give a free opera talk on Tosca at 2:00pm at Glendale Central Library. Reservations not required.

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 10:30am

Clifton M. Brakensiek Library
9945 E. Flower St.
Bellflower, CA 90706

(562) 925-5543

On Tuesday, May 14, LA Opera Community Educator, Steve Kohn, will give a free opera talk on Tosca at 6:45pm at Platt Library. Reservations not required.

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 2pm

Sorensen Library
6934 Broadway Ave.
Whittier, CA 90606

(562) 695-3979

A passionate prima donna is forced to play a role she never imagined when she becomes trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming of a treacherous police chief who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. The explosive triangle comes to a hair-raising conclusion in one of opera's bloodiest, most intense dramas.

Set in the boiling turmoil of Napoleonic Rome, Tosca is a passionate tale set to some of Puccini's most openly beautiful and passionate music.

Pre-Performance Talk

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 3:30pm

Diamond Bar Library
21800 Copley Dr
Diamond Bar, CA 91765

(909) 861-4978

On Saturday, May 18, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk on Tosca at 1:00pm at Duarte Library. Reservations not required.

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Monday, May 20, 2013 at 6:30pm

La Canada Flintridge Library
4545 N. Oakwood Ave.
La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011

(818) 790-3330

On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk on Benjamin Britten at 6:30pm at Porter Ranch Branch Library. Reservations not required.

On Tuesday, May 21, a LA Opera Community Educator will give a free opera talk onAn Introduction to Opera at 1:00pm at Whittwood Branch Library in Whittier.Reservations not required.

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 3:30pm

East Rancho Dominguez Library
4420 E. Rose St.
E. Rancho Dominguez, CA 90221

(310) 632-6193

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 4:30pm

City Terrace Library
4025 E. City Terrace Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90063

(323) 261-0295

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 4:30pm

Malibu Library
23519 W. Civic Center Way
Malibu, CA 90265

(310) 456-6438

Opera always begins with a story. Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. Working in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Public Library, LA Opera has developed this fun, high energy show that tours to various libraries for free family performances. Verdi Opera Tales features four professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Verdi opera stories as Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and La Forza del Destino in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 3pm

Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library
4533 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

(310) 821-3415

A passionate prima donna is forced to play a role she never imagined when she becomes trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming of a treacherous police chief who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. The explosive triangle comes to a hair-raising conclusion in one of opera's bloodiest, most intense dramas.

Set in the boiling turmoil of Napoleonic Rome, Tosca is a passionate tale set to some of Puccini's most openly beautiful and passionate music.

Pre-Performance Talk

A passionate prima donna is forced to play a role she never imagined when she becomes trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming of a treacherous police chief who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. The explosive triangle comes to a hair-raising conclusion in one of opera's bloodiest, most intense dramas.

Set in the boiling turmoil of Napoleonic Rome, Tosca is a passionate tale set to some of Puccini's most openly beautiful and passionate music.

Pre-Performance Talk