Long Beach Opera has a vision, and it’s not afraid to implement it. The opera house has embarked on a yearlong tour of the works of visionary musician Pauline Oliveros, an experimental and avant-garde ...

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, poet J. Mae Barizo handwrote a set of texts while surrounded by an isolating Appalachian landscape. Those texts have now become the libretto for ...

“Here’s our slogan,” Long Beach Opera’s interim managing director proudly announces during a recent conversation about the company’s upcoming season, “We’re not the Met!” For an art form hardly ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The Long Beach Opera has unveiled its ...

A new generation of musicians is discovering the pioneering composer, professor, accordionist and feminist thinker who saw music as healing. Long Beach Opera is taking the radical risk of devoting its ...