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Vocal-related events in Southern California

April 12

Special guest Anne Akiko Meyers, one of the world’s most esteemed violinists celebrated for “playing that comes from the heart” (The New York Times), joins LACC for this enchanting evening of music and community. Conducting LACC’s various ensembles in a program of music spanning the ages are Artistic Director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Associate Artistic Director Fred Meads, and Dr. Steven Kronauer, director of the Young Men’s Ensemble.

The program will feature a pastiche of opera favorites as well as lesser-known pieces sung in English, French, German and Italian, with English supertitles.

The Pomona College Orchestra, (Eric Lindholm, conductor) and the Pomona College Choir, (Donna M. Di Grazia, conductor) join forces to perform a program for choir and orchestra with music by Brahms, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams.

PROGRAM (subject to change)

• Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
• Brahms: Nänie
• Sibelius: Finlandia

Composer Huang Ruo and puppeteer Basil Twist reinterpret Chinese creation myths for the 21st century.

A fantastical world of sunbirds, demons and hairy giants is evoked in The Book of Mountains & Seas, a fascinating work of vocal theater for 12 singers, two percussionists and six puppet masters.

April 13

Spend a Saturday exploring creative ways to bring opera into your classroom, all while earning LAUSD salary points or UCLA extension credit. At Opera for Educators, we bring together leading arts scholars to discuss music, literature, history and more in a convenient online format, so you can join us from wherever you are.

Follow the link above to get to the registration page.

The concert pays tribute to Beethoven with "A Silence Haunts Me," a moving choral meditation on the composer's anguish over his deafness it features a stirring arrangement by the late Alice Parker, a renowned choral arranger and it presents the Santa Barbara premier of a bravura work by Baltic composer Eriks Esenvalds. The concert ends with Sondheim’s uplifting lyrics in "Make Our Garden Grow" from Leonard Bernstein's "Candide."

April 14

Since 2015, LA Opera Connects and Mindful Veteran Project have worked together to enrich the lives of local veterans through the Veterans Circle ticketing program. We are deeply grateful to veterans and active military for their service. Three performances each season offer free Community Circle tickets exclusively to veteran organizations. Following the performance, veterans come together at a facilitated talk-back and reception. Admission is free to qualifying veterans' organizations. Tickets limited, based on availability.

Apply now to attend Verdi's La Traviata on Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 2pm.

They left everything behind to be together. But the past has a way of catching up.

Violetta Valéry is the queen of Parisian nightlife for now, but she knows that life in the fast lane can't last forever. The arrival of a fresh-faced suitor offers her an unexpected taste of true love, until society’s disapproval threatens to tear them apart.

The San Diego Early Music Society is thrilled to present the highly anticipated return of the German vocal quintet amarcord. Hailed as one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, the Leipzig-based group—founded by five former members of the Thomanerchor at St. Thomas Church, where J. S. Bach served as director of music—will present a program of sacred music by Josquin des Prez, one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance. Enjoy an evening of “stellar musicianship and audience friendly patter” (Ken Herman, San Diego Story). The event promises to be “[e]xquisite, a musically dazzling union of intelligent emotion, glittering esprit and supple elegance” (Schwäbische Zeitung).

Join the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony for their 30 Year Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, April 14 at Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Resnick Family Campus. Enjoy repertoire drawn from across their 30-year history that exemplify the breadth and importance of the Symphony’s mission to build bridges through music, including pieces by Leonard Bernstein, Shony Alex Braun, Andrea Clearfield, Sharon Farber, Kurt Weill, and more! (Sponsorship opportunities are available)

April 17

The USC Thornton Chamber Singers, USC Thornton's longstanding choral ensemble, present an evening concert led by Tram Sparks, chair of the Choral & Sacred Music department. The concert will also feature the USC Gospel Choir led by Marcus Desir.

April 18

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