by Kristi | Oct 5, 2022
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels bring their new opera—Omar—to Los Angeles. This presentation is open to the public, not just educators! Co-presentation with Dr. Tiffany Kuo on the sounds of contemporary opera and the musical styles of Omar’s co-composers.... 
by Kristi | Oct 4, 2022
Lucia is trapped in an impossible situation. Her abusive brother hates the man she loves. Worse, he’s forcing her to marry someone else in a last-ditch effort to shore up the family’s failing finances. Her only way out seems to be murder… Learn more... by Kristi | Sep 2, 2022
Lucia is trapped in an impossible situation. Her abusive brother hates the man she loves. Worse, he’s forcing her to marry someone else in a last-ditch effort to shore up the family’s failing finances. Her only way out seems to be murder… Learn more... 
by Kristi | Sep 2, 2022
In this episode of Los Angeles Opera’s podcast series, Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano discusses the multifaceted female leads in the company’s 2022-2023 season: Lucia, Tosca, Desdemona, Susanna, Mélisande. Season and single tickets available now at... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
In this Behind the Curtain conversation, musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown Montesano and Dr. Arianne Helou, a dramaturg and French studies scholar, discuss “Oedipus Rex,” composed by Igor Stravinsky to a libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the ancient Greek...