The Opera Buffs hosts their annual Spring Auditions to hear Southern CA singers perform for an opportunity to perform in our upcoming season, apply for grants and be heard by other local industry professionals. Interested singers, please apply HERE.

Industry professionals and Opera Buffs members are invited to attend and watch these auditions. If you re interested in attending as a spectator, please RSVP by emailing our Auditions Chair, Mona Lands at monalands2@gmail.com.

Collaborative pianist Blair Salter is a versatile performer and music director who has worked at prestigious opera companies and young artist programs throughout the United States and Canada. A graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Young Artist Program, Wolf Trap Opera, and the Glimmerglass Festival, Blair is currently Head Coach for the LA Opera Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and a member of the music staff at Wolf Trap Opera. She made her conducting debut at Lyric Opera of Kansas City in 2025, she was a conductor at The Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors in 2023, and Music Director for Opera Theatre at Penn State University from 2021-23.

Performing in the masterclass will be Lydia Brown, mezzo-soprano, Baharnaz Alimohammadi, soprano, Hannah Verduzco, mezzo-soprano and Zachary Mascarinas, baritone. The pianist for the evening will be Sujin Choi.

The masterclass will run 7-9 PM with light refreshments to follow!

Opera Buffs comes to the Sierra Madre Playhouse with a program of 6 new mini-operas in English!

Featuring:
A Tall Order, by John Greer and Sheri Wilner
Remembrance by Jean Ahn
Rapture by David Wolfson
Lost in the Scroll by Luca Sutto
Grief House by Roydon Tse and Rachel Gray
Attached is your invoice by Zac Flasch

Tickets: $12-$35

Buffs members & students can use this discount code for 15% off: BUFFS15

Opera Buffs comes to the Sierra Madre Playhouse with a program of 6 new mini-operas in English!

Featuring:
A Tall Order, by John Greer and Sheri Wilner
Remembrance by Jean Ahn
Rapture by David Wolfson
Lost in the Scroll by Luca Sutto
Grief House by Roydon Tse and Rachel Gray
Attached is your invoice by Zac Flasch

Tickets: $12-$35

Buffs members & students can use this discount code for 15% off: BUFFS15

After a day of preliminary auditions, 12 finalists have been selected to perform at The Opera Buffs Artists of the Future Competition Finals, a young adult classical vocal competition for singers ages 16-22 from Los Angeles and surrounding Counties.

Come, listen and VOTE for your favorite singer for the audience choice award! Winners will receive cash prizes and performance opportunities throughout our season.

The Competition finals are free and open to the public, RSVP required.

Opera Buffs Members:
The preliminary auditions are free and open to Opera Buffs’ members. RSVP required by emailing theoperabuffs@gmail.com.

Competition Applicants:
Application posted HERE.

On December the fourteenth of our 42nd year
We transform tree and table with tradition's cheer.

All appetizing dishes from sea, earth and air
Season this feast with especial care.

Eggnog, suet pudding, Smyrna figs and soufflés
Nutted rice, cheeses, and grapes garnish these glad days.

Join us for music and laughter and a bit of sherry
For the successes of this year make us so very merry!

Open exclusively to Opera Buffs members.
RSVP required. To RSVP, please email ethebaut.

The Opera Buffs co-sponsors this Friends of the Westwood Library free concert series featuring the “Generation Gap Quartet” (featuring Opera Buffs’ alumni, Ben Lowe).

This event is free and open to the public (all ages welcome!).

The Opera Buffs hosts their annual Fall Auditions to hear Southern CA singers perform for an opportunity to perform in our upcoming season, apply for grants and be heard by other local industry professionals.

Industry professionals and Opera Buffs members are invited to attend and watch these auditions. Please RSVP by emailing theoperabuffs@gmail.com.

Join us for an opening season recital featuring some of last years grant recipients! Reception to follow.

Members Price: $15
General Admission: $25

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Dr. Melissa Treinkman will hold a ZOOM class in which she will share a series of steps and tips to build a voice studio from the ground up.  The biggest concern for most new teachers, recruiting and retaining students, is the focus. Other topics will include finding a teaching space, advertising, studio policies, web visibility, and the psychology of sales as it relates to voice teachers. 

Dr. Treinkman serves as an assistant professor of musical theatre vocal performance at the University of Southern California where she teaches applied voice and vocal pedagogy. She also has a vibrant vocal studio in Venice, California and teaches online lessons to singers worldwide.  Melissa received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California, a Master of Music from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University.

Event is free, RSVP required. 

American-born, Cuban and Colombian tenor, Anthony León, a young up-and-comer who is quickly developing an international performing career and Opera Buffs alumnus, will be performing and teaching in this not-to-be-missed recital & masterclass!

Event is free and open to the public.

RSVP Required

The Opera Buffs hosts their annual Spring Auditions to hear Southern CA singers perform for an opportunity to perform in our upcoming season, apply for grants and be heard by other local industry professionals.

Industry professionals and Opera Buffs members are invited to attend and watch these auditions. Please RSVP by emailing theoperabuffs@gmail.com.

After a day of preliminary auditions, 12 finalists have been selected to perform at The Opera Buffs Artists of the Future Competition Finals, a young adult classical vocal competition for singers ages 16-22 from Los Angeles and surrounding Counties.

Come, listen and VOTE for your favorite singer for the audience choice award! Winners will receive cash prizes and performance opportunities throughout our season.

The Competition finals are free and open to the public, RSVP is strongly encouraged.

Opera Buffs Members:
The preliminary auditions are free and open to Opera Buffs’ members. RSVP required by emailing theoperabuffs@gmail.com.

Competition Applicants:
Please apply HERE to reserve an audition slot (application deadline Dec. 31st).
Our Auditions Coordinator, Mona Lands, will be in direct contact with you regarding scheduling for our Audition Preliminaries. A pianist will be provided (at no cost), but you are also welcome to bring your own.

The auditions will be held at Murphy Recital Hall at Loyola Marymount University.
1 Loyola Marymount University Dr,
Los Angeles, CA 90045 

On December the eighth of our 41st year
We transform tree and table with tradition's cheer.

All appetizing dishes from sea, earth and air
Season this feast with especial care.

Eggnog, suet pudding, Smyrna figs and soufflés
Nutted rice, cheeses, and grapes garnish these glad days.

Join us for music and laughter and a bit of sherry
For the successes of this year make us so very merry!

Open exclusively to Opera Buffs members.
RSVP required.

Tenor Arnold Livingston Geis and soprano Oriana Falla warm our hearts with classic Broadway favorites from shows such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Kismet and Phantom of the Opera. Accompanied by pianist Kathryn Eames. Co-sponsored by THE OPERA BUFFS INC.

WESTWOOD LIBRARY

1246 Glendon Avenue • Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310) 474-1739

Admission is FREE, with FREE parking at the library.

Join us at up-scale lounge and piano bar, The Stowaway in DTLA for this one of a kind, immersive performance experience, in our upcoming “Fright Festival,” featuring opera’s most ghastly ghosts, ghouls and goblins.  Come in costume and you may even be wondering who is a guest and who is a performer! 

Tickets on sale now!

Members & Students: $15
General Admission: $25

Grammy-nominated tenor, and Opera Buffs’ alumnus, Rodell Aure Rosel will conduct a masterclass at MiMoDa Studio on Sunday, October 6th from 2:00-5:00 PM.

Rosel appears regularly in major opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Royal Opera House. He is primarily known for his superb portrayals of character roles: Monostatos, Goro, Mime and Loge, Basilio, Tanzmeister, Spoletta, and the Four Servants in The Tales of Hoffmann.

He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier, opposite Renee Fleming, Susan Graham, and Sir Thomas Allen. He originated the roles of Ong Chi Seng in Paul Moravec’s The Letter at Santa Fe Opera, as well as Anthony Candolino in Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Great Scott at Dallas Opera, which starred Joyce DiDonato and Frederica von Stade, conducted by Patrick Summers.

Opera Buffs’ Members: $10
General Admission: $15
Free for students

The Opera Buffs hosts their annual Fall Auditions to hear Southern CA singers perform for an opportunity to perform in our upcoming season, apply for grants and be heard by other local industry professionals. AUDITIONS SLOTS ARE NOW FULL!

Industry professionals and Opera Buffs members are invited to attend and watch these auditions. Please RSVP by emailing theoperabuffs@gmail.com.

Join the Opera Buffs for our opening season recital and party! We will have wine & beer, hors-d’oeuvres and a recital featuring past grant recipients.

Free for Opera Buffs’ members
$35 General Admission
$15 students.

Venue:

MiMoDa Studio
5774 W Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

The Opera Buffs is thrilled to reinstate their seasonal Concert Opera with orchestra! On June 9th, we will present the American classic opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore, conducted by Brent McMunn, featuring Graycen Gardner as Baby Doe, Ben Lowe as Horace Tabor, Audrey Babcock as Augusta Tabor, Erin Wood as Mama McCourt, along with other Opera Buffs' singers.

A rags-to-riches love story about real-life characters in 19th-century Colorado, the opera’s simple expressions of human emotions and universal truths have inspired audiences around the world.

Also, don't miss our pre concert lecture and recital on May 28th from 7:00-9:00 PM at the Ebell Theater. The event is free for June 9th ticket holders.

Tickets:

General Admission: $75
Opera Buffs Members: $45
Student Tickets: $10

All ticket prices include admission to our pre-concert lecture and recital on May 28th at The Ebell Theater.

Sri Lankan tenor Emesh Wijewardena and New Zealand soprano Emily Scott team

up for an exciting program titled Viva l’Opera: A Grand Concert of Italian Masterpieces,

featuring favorites from operas such as La Traviata and La Bohème. Accompanied by

pianist Diane Ketchie. Co-sponsored by THE OPERA BUFFS INC.

WESTWOOD LIBRARY
1246 Glendon Avenue • Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 474-1739
Admission is FREE, with FREE parking at the library.

In anticipation for The Opera Buffs' June concert opera with orchestra, The Ballad of Baby Doe, the organization invites you to join them at the Ebell Theater to not only hear a sneak preview of some of the operas most beloved arias and duets but also learn about the opera from Buffs' music director, Brent McMunn, and resident stage director, Michael Van Duzer. Don't miss out on this fun evening filled with music, drink and a rich history on the classic "rags to riches" love story!

Event is free for June 9th ticket holders
General Admission: $25
Student tickets: $10

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new collaboration with LA based new music opera company, New Opera West. A non-profit dedicated to the promotion of new opera, New Opera West will present a “Pop-Up Opera” featuring six new mini-operas performed by Opera Buffs' singers.

From an opera about two young girls who travel back in time to meet famous female scientists to a comic opera with some cringy pick-up lines to an opera about making the best tacos in LA, these fabulous operas do not disappoint!

5 new mini-operas:

Las Auténticas

Ben Morris & Laura Fuentes

End of the line

Nathan Wasner & Alan Olejnicz

Galaxies in her eyes

Mark Weiser & Amy Punt

Friends house

Steven Crino & Joshua Schied

A Womb with a view

Beth Ratay & Rich Orloff

Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM
Arrive around 7 PM and purchase a tamale and glass of wine/or beer!

Sunday, April 28, 2 PM
Enjoy lunch at Paper & Plastik cafe before the show. (Cafe attached to performance venue).

Tickets:
$17 General Admission
$12 Artist & Students

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new collaboration with LA based new music opera company, New Opera West. A non-profit dedicated to the promotion of new opera, New Opera West will present a “Pop-Up Opera” featuring six new mini-operas performed by Opera Buffs' singers.

From an opera about two young girls who travel back in time to meet famous female scientists to a comic opera with some cringy pick-up lines to an opera about making the best tacos in LA, these fabulous operas do not disappoint!

5 new mini-operas:

Las Auténticas

Ben Morris & Laura Fuentes

End of the line

Nathan Wasner & Alan Olejnicz

Galaxies in her eyes

Mark Weiser & Amy Punt

Friends house

Steven Crino & Joshua Schied

A Womb with a view

Beth Ratay & Rich Orloff

Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM
Arrive around 7 PM and purchase a tamale and glass of wine/or beer!

Sunday, April 28, 2 PM
Enjoy lunch at Paper & Plastik cafe before the show. (Cafe attached to performance venue).

Tickets:
$17 General Admission
$12 Artist & Students

The Opera Buffs hosts their annual Spring Auditions to hear Southern CA singers perform for an opportunity to perform in our upcoming season, apply for grants and be heard by other local industry professionals. Interested singers, please apply HERE. Industry professionals and Opera Buffs members are invited to attend and watch these auditions. If you re interested in attending as a spectator, please RSVP by emailing our Auditions Chair, Mona Lands at monalands2@gmail.com.

The auditions will be held at The Estonian House.
1306 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007