{"id":15706,"date":"2025-03-04T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=15706"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:10:48","slug":"lina-gonzalez-granados-renews-la-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/lina-gonzalez-granados-renews-la-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados renews contract as LA Opera’s Resident Conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colombian-American conductor will remain with the company through 2028<\/strong><\/p>\n

LA Opera continues to refine its rich artistic profile and shape its future with the announcement that Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados<\/a> has renewed her contract as Resident Conductor, a position she has held since 2022. The three-year extension, following her original three-year contract that concludes this summer, extend her affiliation with the company through the end of the 2027\/28 season.<\/p>\n

“I’m deeply honored to continue as LA Opera’s Resident Conductor, making music with the extraordinary artists of the orchestra and chorus,” said Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados. “Our work has never been more important than at this moment. I look with immense pride at all that we have achieved, from interpretations of classic works like Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia<\/em> and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em>, to new works like Gabriela Lena Frank’s El \u00faltimo sue\u00f1o de Frida y Diego<\/em>, the world premiere of Joel Thompson’s Fire and Blue Sky<\/em> and the upcoming company premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar<\/em>. It is a privilege to continue our mission to expand the art form and to reach ever wider audiences.”<\/p>\n

In addition to the works noted above, she has conducted LA Opera performances that include Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, the world premiere of Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla’s soundtrack score for the 1931 Spanish-language film Dracula<\/em> and the world premiere of Joel Thompson’s orchestral suite from his opera The Snowy Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her upcoming LA Opera appearances including Coming Home: Angel Blue in Concert<\/em> on March 15 and next season’s production of La Boh\u00e8me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“From the first moment she stepped on the podium for Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em> in 2022, Lina forged a palpable connection with our audiences,” said Christopher Koelsch, the company’s president and CEO. “That phenomenon has only grown throughout her leadership in a diverse range of projects, from the music of Benjamin Britten to Gabriela Lena Frank, and I have every confidence she will continue to demonstrate insight, intelligence and energy in her upcoming leadership of Coming Home with Angel Blue<\/em> and Ainadamar<\/em>. Further, her commitment to the development of the future of the art form through community outreach, her work with our young artists, and her commitment to new compositional voices have helped the company\u2014and the field\u2014advance its vision for a continuously vibrant environment for creative expression.”<\/p>\n

Read the full press release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colombian-American conductor will remain with the company through 2028 LA Opera continues to refine its rich artistic profile and shape its future with the announcement that Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados has renewed her contract as Resident Conductor, a position she has held since 2022. The three-year extension, following her original three-year contract that concludes this summer, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3613,6483,7280,3705,7386],"class_list":["post-15706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conductor","tag-contract-renewal","tag-lina-gonzalez-granados","tag-opera","tag-resident-conductor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}