Community & Learning

Your class can perform in a fully staged opera on your campus; our teaching artists will work with your students to produce a show they'll never forget. Covers Common Core and Visual and Performing Arts Standards.

Watch your students grow as performers through our In School residencies. This program covers Common Core and Visual and Performing Arts Standards.

Bring your class on a one-of-a-kind field trip to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. See a show written especially for young audiences with excerpts from famous operas, or attend a mainstage rehearsal with an educational pre-show talk.

Learn innovative methods to add opera into your classroom, earn LAUSD salary points, and access downloadable PDF versions of pre-written lesson plans. 

Make music and friends this summer at Opera Camp. Whatever your experience level, our teaching artists will help you improve your musical, dramatic, and movement skills in a fun-filled two-weeks, culminating in a fully staged opera.

High school sophomores, apply for a six-year paid internship starting in your junior year. You'll gain firsthand experience in all aspects of creating an opera, including finance, production, marketing, and more (and Connects, of course), and get to know the inner workings of LA Opera.

College and university students have the opportunity to connect with administrators, artists, and other professionals to learn more about working at an arts organization and producing opera.    

Enter to win a mini-subscription to LA Opera's mainstage season. You'll get tickets for you and a chaperone to attend the opening night performances of four diverse operas. Available for students grades 7-12.

This highly popular baby opera invites you and your little one into the world of a mother hen and her chick as he learns to leave the nest and fly on his own. Experience baby's first opera with   BambinO.

Under the glittering chandeliers of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, experience an opera designed for young audiences, along with crafts and arts activities. Make Saturday Mornings at the Opera your new family tradition.

Streaming live from the LA Opera stage to a big screen near you, experience the grandeur of opening night from your lawn chair at the beach or in the park. The pre-show celebration features local community organizations, food, fun, and prizes.

Hear experts analyze the operas on our stage from all angles, from composers' lives to music to performance histories. Whether you prefer to learn in person or online from wherever you are, LA Opera Connects has you covered.

Every year, we celebrate opera and our community with a grand-scale production at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Join professional opera singers and instrumentalists and volunteer performers of all ages under the baton of Maestro Conlon.

Learn about Spanish-language music, including operetta, art song, and popular music. Enjoy weekly lessons with Zarzuela Project and perform alongside music-lovers from around Los Angeles.

Join our band of tireless volunteers and get involved behind the scenes at LA Opera

Since 1992, HLAO has been an instrumental part of LA Opera's success. Support LA Opera and enjoy perks like rehearsal tickets and special events.

African Americans for LA Opera (AALAO), a chapter of the Opera League, is dedicated to increasing the awareness of opera throughout the Los Angeles area and to providing a center for African American opera lovers in Los Angeles. 

LA Opera Legacy Ambassador Program was established to forge deep, authentic, and long-standing relationships with diverse communities and the key thought leaders influencing them. 

LA Opera Connects is proud to host this unique summit which offers conversations and participatory experiences, promoting creative ways to approach wellness.

LA Opera Connects artists give musical bedside recitals to patients at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehab Center. Read on to learn about one of the ways we promote healing through music in our community.

Singing can improve posture and strengthen respiratory muscles, as well as support mental health. LA Opera Connects teaching artists give doctors at UCLA Health a new tool to treat the symptoms of respiratory disorders.