2023-2024 SEASON
We're back with yet another year of POPtastic productions!
Click HERE to purchase tickets. Check out info below on our season line-up.
Other performances this season include a concert in collaboration with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and the POP Artist Recital Series.
HANSEL & GRETEL
Engelbert Humperdinck
August 4, 2023 | 5:30PM
August 5, 2023 | 5:30PM
August 6, 2023 | 3:00PM & 5:30PM
Descanso Gardens
1418 Descanso Dr
La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Tickets included with admission to the Gardens!
Sung in English, this hour-long adaptation of an opera based on the Brothers Grimm tale is ideal for audiences of all ages and is free with admission to the Gardens. POP’s production of Hansel and Gretel has been praised by Opera News as “fresh, imaginative, witty, and imbued with a keen sense of both rhyme and rhythm.”
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Gioachino Rossini
August 25, 2023 | 8:00PM
One night only!
The Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd E
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Tickets on sale May 9th through The Ford website HERE.
A modern-day spin on this beloved comedy! The production is set in Hollywood where pop princess Rosina (mezzo-soprano Meagan Martin) is fresh out of rehab after a messy breakup and public meltdown. Baritone Jonathan McCullough makes his POP debut as Figaro, a stylist to the stars. Additional cast members include bass Andrew Potter as Don Basilio, an aging rock legend, turned celebrity voice coach; tenor Sergio Gonzalez as Hollywood heartthrob Count Almaviva, and bass-baritone E. Scott Levin as Rosina’s overbearing producer and manager, Dr. Bartolo. Kyle Naig conducts this production, which is sung in Italian with English supertitles.
SCALIA/GINSBURG
Derrick Wang
& TRIAL BY JURY
W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
November 17, 2023 | 7:00PM
November 18, 2023 | 7:00PM
November 19, 2023 | 3:00PM November 24, 2023 | 7:00PM
November 25, 2023 | 7:00PM
November 26, 2023 | 3:00PM
The Highland Park Ebell Club
131 S. Avenue 57
Los Angeles, CA 90042
Hailed as “a dream come true” (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and “the kind of opera that should be everywhere” (OperaWire), Scalia/Ginsburg is an operatic comedy about the unlikely friendship between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia — and the pivotal moment that would change the Supreme Court for years to come. Paired with Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury (with a new libretto set in a 1980s divorce court) you won't want to miss this double-bill production!
DIE FLEDERMAUS
Johann Strauss II
February 17, 2024 | 7:00PM
February 18, 2024 | 3:00PM
Thorne Hall at Occidental College
Thorne Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041
A Hungarian countess, a Russian prince, a magically attractive watch, and a bat costume make for a strange recipe of plot in any country or time period modern audiences can relate to, except perhaps the time and place where anything was possible not that long ago... the Golden Age of Hollywood.
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
蝶々夫人
Giacomo Puccini
June 1, 2024 | 7:00PM
June 2, 2024 | 3:00PM
June 7, 2024 | 8:00PM
June 9, 2024 | 3:00PM
Aratani Theater
244 San Pedro St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Co-librettist Eiki Isomura returns to conduct POP’s acclaimed production of Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人. Kimono designer Sueko Oshimoto of SK Kimono, and the South Bay Singers led by Naoko Suga also return for this production, which was first premiered in 2019 in LA’s Little Tokyo and was described by San Francisco Classical Voice as being “on a visual scale beyond anything [POP] has taken on before – a sumptuously costumed, fully staged, bilingual co-production.”
