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HOW EXUBERANT, AMBITIOUS OPERAS IN L.A. SCORE BIG DESPITE SMALL CASTS AND MODEST BUDGETS

Long Beach Opera’s Pauline Oliveros production featured what surely will go down as one of the best performances of the year.

THERE’S A TINY VICTORIAN TOWN HIDING ALONGSIDE CALIFORNIA’S OLDEST FREEWAY

On a recent frigid Saturday evening in northeast Los Angeles, a group of discerning partygoers filtered into a local architectural oddity known as the Heritage Square Museum.

THE LATE PAULINE OLIVEROS IS HAVING HER MOMENT. HOW LONG BEACH OPERA IS MAKING IT BIGGER

Long Beach Opera is taking the radical risk of devoting its entire season to Oliveros’ works, performed at sites including the Queen Mary.

LONG BEACH OPERA PAYS TRIBUTE
TO PAULINE OLIVEROS

To ring in the New Year, PAPER has insider photos and quotes from LBO’s kickoff performance.

LONG BEACH OPERA TO SPEND ENTIRE SEASON SPOTLIGHTING MUSICAL VISIONARY PAULINE OLIVEROS

Long Beach Opera has a vision, and it’s not afraid to implement it.

LONG BEACH OPERA ANNOUNCES 2025 SESAON CELEBRATING QUEER COMPOSER PAULINE OLIVEROS

"We really started to think that that was an interesting idea to show one woman's kind of bold, varied work, and no two of these pieces are the same," Darrah said.

LONG BEACH OPERA’S OUTRAGEOUSLY ENTERTAINING ‘BYE BYE BUTTERFLY’

More psychedelic homage than precise retrospective, Bye Bye Butterfly, LBO’S mind trip of a production, celebrated the pioneering spirit and music of West Coast iconoclast Pauline Oliveros.

PHILOSOPHERS AGREE: ‘IPSA DIXIT’ IS A HOOT

Since its founding in 1979, Long Beach Opera has pushed the boundaries of the form so often that experimental is the norm.