Celebrate the spooky season and opera for the American airwaves in this double bill production featuring Menotti’s The Old Maid & The Thief and The Medium. Our studio actors have a third story to tell as we see their private lives on full display in this fully staged production. Sung in English with English & Spanish supertitles.

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The Menotti Radio Hour

OC Music & Dance

Join us for this fairytale full of family and faith, presented in an original Spanglish libretto. When Hansel & Gretel meet the evil witch, their love, and smarts, will overcome all obstacles. A perfect celebration of family for Mother’s Day weekend, 2024 at the Yost Theatre in Downtown Santa Ana.

Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel

Yost Theatre

Lust. Love. Longing. Consequence.
Don’t miss the West Coast Premier on this opera’s centennial anniversary!

Ethel Smyth's Fête Galante

Chance Theatre

Back after popular demand, Lyric Opera OC reprises their January 2023 production of Jake Heggie’s Two Remain for the inaugural statewide California Music Festival. Kicking off the festival’s calendar, this production will leave you with tears in your eyes and silence on your lips. Heggie crafts a visceral memoir based on the true story of two Holocaust survivors and their reflections, and the choices that haunt them, from their time in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp of WWII.

Jake Heggie's Two Remain

Huntington Beach Central Library

Don’t miss your chance to experience up and coming opera stars in some of your favorite repertoire. These operas will be presented in a concert format (minimal/no staging or costumes) with pianos and English & Spanish supertitles. A great way to get to know the most famous titles in the operatic canon in an intimate setting.

Concert Opera Series - Le Nozze di Figaro

Curtis Theatre

Orange County Music & Dance

Celebrate the finale of Lyric Opera OC’s return season at the Muck with Bizet’s iconic opera, Carmen! Sung in French with English surtitles. Order a picnic and toast to music under the sails of the amphitheater pavilion.

Bizet’s Carmen

The Muckenthaler Cultural Center

Lyric Opera of Orange County proudly presents 300 years of operatic scenes spanning the universal themes of love, loss, heartbreak and happiness. Featuring artists from Southern California’s brightest stages and conservatories, this spectacle of song is sure to entertain.

L'Opéra Petit

Featuring the stars from this season’s Madame Butterfly, Magic Flute, and Carmen, we’re bringing our hit outreach program, Opera 101, to you this May! We’ve proudly presented this concert as part of our outreach programs for venues across Orange County and this is the first public invitation! In tandem with @artsorangecountyca #ImaginationCelebration2022 we are inviting everyone to come laugh, learn, and fall in love with the opera!

OPERA 101

St. Johns Episcopal Church

Family, Forgiveness, and Faith all converge when Sister Angelica receives an unexpected visit from her Aunt after years as a penitant nun and mother of a child out of wedlock. Puccini’s masterpiece, debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918, still thrills audiences to rapture and sorrow over a hundred years later.

Suor Angelica

With libretto by founding Artistic Director of Lyric Opera OC, Diana Farrell, and music by Los Angeles based composer Brooke deRosa, this new opera is based on the haunting 1876 novella by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Lyric Opera OC makes its Carnegie Hall debut with this thrilling world premiere, one night only in NYC! Join us Friday, January 31st for the first ever performance of this captivating work for three voices and a 6 piece chamber orchestra before it appears anywhere else.

The Yellow Wallpaper: WORLD PREMIERE

Carnegie Hall

Get ready for Opening Day when we present Schuman’s The Mighty Casey, based on the famous 19th century story, Casey at the Bat. In true LOOC fashion, we’re presenting this with a twist, for Women’s Month. This is a musical story the whole family will love!

The Mighty Casey

Save the Dates! Our Young Artists training program, happening in Orange County California begins June 9, 2025 with performances on June 20 & 21. Audition information available here and through YAP Tracker late fall, 2024.

Lyric Opera of Orange County

24 - 25 Jan, 2025

Suor Angelica

Jan 31, 2025

The Yellow Wallpaper: WORLD PREMIERE

28 - 30 Mar, 2025

The Mighty Casey

20 - 21 Jun, 2025

L'Opera Petit: 2025

25 - 27 Oct, 2024

The Menotti Radio Hour

11 - 12 May, 2024

Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel

Lyric Opera of Orange County