Have you met Alice Coulombe? Listening to the co-founder and first president of the Opera League talk about the League’s origins is fascinating. The Opera League birth was not unlike many Internet startups today. You had a small collection of passionate people who made it up as they went along.

Most Opera Leaguers only know Allan Edmiston as the moderator of the seminars we put on four times a year, but of course this Evanston, Illinois native is so much more than that.

Alice Coulombe was a visionary force who co-founded the Opera League of Los Angeles in 1981, setting the stage for the city's first resident opera company, LA Opera, in 1986.

In anticipation of LA Opera’s upcoming Halloween screening of the Spanish-language Dracula with live orchestra accompaniment, the Opera League is proud to present a seminar featuring Alejandra Espasande, film preservationist and director of Los Angeles Heritage Preservation Society.

For nearly a decade, Alannah has been wowing League members and their friends at recitals produced by African Americans for LA Opera (AALAO), a League chapter.

Opera League President Gary Murphy snags a last-minute ticket to a revival of one of his favorite plays of his halcyon youth, then makes a bold operatic discovery in Santa Fe, along the way rediscovering the joys of a shared passion.