In compliance with COVID-19 restrictions plus a tight rehearsal schedule, cast members were not among the guests this year, but the event drew a substantial turnout of board members and donors, including Koelsch, Annette and Keith Leonard, Marc Stern, Alice Coulombe, Alyce Williamson, Todd Calvin, Susan Graham Allan Edmiston, Patrick Harrigan, Charles Souw, Adele and Gordon Binder, Paul Bennett, Ellen and Jim Strauss, Michelle and Rupert Hemmings, Jennifer Diener, Geoff Emery, Tim Johnson, Ann and Robert Ronus, Joan and Arnold Seidel, Marc Stern, Nancy and Barry Sanders, Monica and Trevor Roper, Janet Ciriello and Diane and Peter Gray.Pianist, vocal coach, and conductor, Brendon Shapiro, is quickly garnering a reputation from coast to coast as a champion of new music and opera of the 20th and 21st centuries.
He and his wife Eva are the largest donors in accumulative gifts to The Music Center and its resident companies after the Disney family. “Now I’m looking forward to supporting Keith and watching as the LA Opera continues to thrive and grow.”Īs honorary chair, Stern will remain an active voting member. “While working alongside Keith, it quickly became clear that he would make an outstanding chair and the board agreed,” Stern said. Carol will remain as chair of the executive committee, a post she has occupied since 2005, but after 30 years of board service - 20 as chair - Marc Stern has stepped down and passed the torch to Keith Leonard, an executive in the biotechnology industry and a devoted opera board member since 2015.
There have been significant changes in the opera’s hierarchy during the 18-month hiatus. Opera’s Executive Committee since 2005, decided, to carry on the tradition and host the bash in their home one last time before she begins to downsize her lifestyle. Although Warner passed away last year, Carol, who has chaired L.A.
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