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James Conlon
Conductor

From: New York City, New York.
LA Opera: La Traviata (2006, debut); 67 different operas  and over 455 performances to date. He has been Richard Seaver Music Director since 2006.  Later this season, he will conduct Turandot. 
About: James Conlon, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire. He has led virtually every major North American and European orchestra and over 270 performances at the Metropolitan Opera. Through worldwide touring, an extensive discography and filmography, numerous writings, television appearances, and guest speaking engagements, he is one of classical music’s most recognized and prolific figures.He has been Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of the RAI in Torino (2016-20), Music Director of the Ravinia Festival (2005-15), Principal Conductor of the Paris National Opera (1995-2004), General Music Director of the City of Cologne (1989-2002), Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (1983-91) and Music Director of the Cincinnati May Festival (1979-2016), where is now Music Director Laureate. He has won three Grammy Awards and was awarded France’s Légion d’Honneur. JamesConlon.com

Louis Lohraseb
Conductor (April 18)

From: Rotterdam, New York.
LA Opera: Tosca (2022, mainstage debut); The Barber of Seville (2023); Psycho with the LA Opera Orchestra (2019). He was a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program from 2018 through 2020.
About: Since his 2019 professional debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, he has established himself as an exciting young conductor of both symphonic and operatic repertoire. His appearances this season include debuts with the Hamburg State Opera for The Marriage of Figaro and with Atlanta Opera for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as a concert with the Peoria Symphony. Recent engagements include Carmen with the Semperoper Dresden, La Traviata with the Komische Oper Berlin, Massenet’s rarely performed Thérèse with Sarasota Opera and Così fan tutte with Tel Aviv Summer Opera. He also conducted Don Giovanni and La Rondine with Indiana University’s IU Opera Theatre. LouisLohraseb.com

Robert Innes Hopkins
Scenic & Costume Designer

From: London, England.
LA Opera: debut.
About: A multi-award-winning international production designer and digital artist, he has designed opera, theater and large-scale events to critical acclaim in Europe, America and worldwide. Recent and upcoming projects include Tristan und Isolde and L’Elisir d’Amore (San Francisco Opera); Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (Deutsche Oper Berlin); The Flying Dutchman (Teatro Comunale di Bologna); 1923 (Istanbul’s Zorlu Performing Arts); Orfeo ed Euridice/Dido and Aeneas (Grange Festival); All’s Well That Ends Well (Royal Shakespeare Company); Die Fledermaus (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Wagner’s Ring cycle (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Rigoletto and War and Peace (Welsh National Opera); L’Italiana in Algeri (Santa Fe Opera). RobertInnesHopkins.com

Michael James Clark
Original Lighting Designer

From: Houston, Texas.
LA Opera: debut.
About: He is the Head of Lighting for Houston Grand Opera, where his many credits include mainstage and outdoor productions as well as the world premieres of The Snowy Day, The Phoenix, Some Light Emerges and Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. This season’s engagements include Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, La Bohème with Canadian Opera Company, Parsifal, Falstaff and Meilina Tsui’s The Big Swim with Houston Grand Opera, and Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day with Portland Opera. He has designed San Francisco Opera productions of Tosca and La Traviata and he will return this summer for La Bohème. He also has designed lighting for Teatro La Fenice, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars and the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. He holds a degree in lighting design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Davida Tkach
Revival Lighting Designer

From: Toronto, Ontario.
LA Opera: debut.
About: Davida Tkach is a New York City-based lighting designer for opera, theater, dance and special events. Her work in opera includes five seasons as an assistant lighting designer at the San Francisco Opera, recent productions of Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams for the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Salome for the Canadian Opera Company and Rigoletto for Opera San José. Other recent credits include Tiny Pretty Things (Netflix); August: Osage County (Soulpepper); Wrong For Each Other and Old Love (The Foster Festival); Mikveh (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); and A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Western Theatre Company). She has worked for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, and has worked on and off Broadway. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and completed the Hemsley Lighting Design Internship in 2011. DavidaTkachDesign.com

Andrew Kenneth Moss
Fight Director

From: Corning, New York.
LA Opera: Il Trovatore (2021, debut); Aida (2022); Lucia di Lammermoor (2022); Tosca (2022); Otello (2023); Don Giovanni (2023).
About: He has worked on productions including Armida at the Metropolitan Opera, SAFE at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, A Little Night Music at the Huntington Theatre Company, Cold Mountain at Music Academy of the West and Carmen, Don Giovanni, I Puritani and Greek at Boston Lyric Opera. New York credits include Forever Dusty for New World Stages and Pinocchio’s Ashes for Theater for a New City. He staged combat for Dead Man Walking, West Side Story, The Seven Deadly Sins and Oklahoma! as resident fight director at Central City Opera.