Founded in 1979, the Long Beach Opera is the oldest operatic producing company in the metropolitan Los Angeles/Orange County region.
With a repertory of over 100 operas, including early and late Baroque works, twentieth century works, and operas of special interest from the standard repertory, Long Beach Opera is well known for its world, American and west coast premieres of new and rare operas. In addition to 4 main stage opera productions each season, Long Beach Opera engages over 4000 school-aged children each year in age-appropriate, immersive arts education, maintains a robust series of free youth and adult engagement activities including Community Conversations on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the arts, and produces informative and entertaining virtual programming such as Artist Afternoons and Recitals, video podcasts and the UnGala series.