The Tony Award winner will perform with the LA Opera Orchestra on February 1

(Los Angeles) January 6, 2025 — On February 1, LA Opera will present Tony Award-winning Broadway and opera star Kelli O'Hara in concert.

One of Broadway's greatest leading ladies—who has also starred in three productions at the Metropolitan Opera—she will make her eagerly anticipated company debut in a heart-filling evening of beloved show tunes and more. She will appear with the LA Opera Orchestra, conducted by Bob Bernhardt, and under the musical direction of Dan Lipton, who will also be the featured piano soloist.

Performance and Ticket Info
The concert will take place at 7:30pm on Saturday, February 1, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012).

Tickets begin at $54 and are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased online at LAOpera.org, by phone at 213.972.8001, or in person at the LA Opera box office at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012). For disability access, call 213.972.0777 or email LAOpera@LAOpera.org.

More information about the production is available at LAOpera.org/OHara.

Click here to download photos of Kelli O'Hara.

About Kelli O'Hara
Kelli O'Hara, a Tony Award winner and an Emmy and Grammy nominee, has appeared in 12 Broadway shows to date, for which she has garnered eight Tony Award nominations. She won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy, Drama League and Outer Critics nominations, for her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I. Her other Broadway credits include Kiss Me, Kate, The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work If You Can Get It, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula and Jekyll & Hyde. Last year, she completed a critically acclaimed limited Broadway engagement of the new musical Days of Wine and Roses, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical in addition to receiving Tony and Drama League nominations for her performance.

She received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in Topic's hit web series The Accidental Wolf, and can currently be seen on HBO’s The Gilded Age. Additional film and television credits include Showtime's Masters of Sex, 13 Reasons Why, Blue Bloods, All My Children, All the Bright Places, Peter Pan Live!, Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese's The Key to Reserva, The Good Fight, N3mbers and Car Talk.

In 2015, she made history as the first artist to make the crossover from Broadway to opera when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Valencienne in Lehár's The Merry Widow opposite Renée Fleming. In 2018, she returned to the Met as Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte. She was subsequently seen in the Met's 2022 world premiere of Kevin Puts’ The Hours, creating the role of Laura Brown, a role she reprised there in 2024.

She is a frequent performer on PBS live telecasts, the Kennedy Center Honors, and performs often alongside the New York Philharmonic and the New York Pops. She has released two solo albums, Always and Wonder in the World.

About Bob Bernhardt
Bob Bernhardt has been a constant presence with the Louisville Orchestra for the past 43 years: as assistant and associate conductor, as principal guest conductor with Kentucky Opera, and now for 27 years as the orchestra’s principal pops conductor. He is concurrently in his 10th season as pops conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphony and music director emeritus of the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, where he previously spent 19 seasons as music director.

He has conducted the Baltimore Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Louisiana Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Utah Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony and Santa Barbara Symphony. He has a long relationship with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, conducting there several times each season, and he is a frequent guest with the Boston Pops.

About Dan Lipton
Dan Lipton conducted The Band’s Visit and Sting’s musical The Last Ship on Broadway. He has arranged music and led bands for Sutton Foster, Kelli O'Hara, Mandy Gonzalez, Brian d’Arcy James, Judy Kuhn, John Lithgow, Martha Plimpton and Audra McDonald, performing at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, on Live with Kelly Ripa, The Today Show, PBS’ Great Performances, The Late Show with David Letterman and with major symphony orchestras across the country.

He has been a music supervisor and orchestrator for An Officer and a Gentleman (US tour), The Other Josh Cohen (Off-Broadway) and the Drama Desk Awards. He has been music director and onstage musician for Twyla Tharp’s How Long Blues (Little Island) under T Bone Burnett, Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia (Broadway), The Bridge Project (BAM, Old Vic) with Ethan Hawke, directed by Sam Mendes, and Herringbone with BD Wong, directed by Roger Rees (La Jolla Playhouse). He scored the feature film All These Small Moments (Orion Classics) starring Molly Ringwald.

About LA Opera
Los Angeles is a city of enormous diversity and creativity, and LA Opera is dedicated to reflecting that vibrancy by redefining what opera can be. Through imaginative new productions, world premiere commissions, and inventive performances that preserve foundational works while making them feel fresh and compelling, LA Opera has become one of America’s most exciting and ambitious opera companies.

In addition to its mainstage performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the company explores unusual repertoire each season through the LA Opera Off Grand initiative, featuring performances in a variety of venues throughout Los Angeles. The LA Opera Connects initiative offers a robust variety of educational programming and community engagement offerings that reaches people throughout every corner of Los Angeles County. Learn more at LAOpera.org.

LA Opera Media Contact
Marlene Meraz
Director of Communications
mmeraz@laopera.org
213.972.7554

LA Opera Orchestra generously underwritten by Terri and Jerry Kohl

Piano graciously provided by Yamaha

LA Opera is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the greater Los Angeles community.