I basked in the radiant warmth of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, featuring the full LA Opera Chorus in one of opera’s most glorious finales and soared to searing heights with Verdi’s La Forza del Destino and savored Mozart’s buoyant & brilliant The Marriage of Figaro I celebrated James Conlon’s – LA Opera: over 500 performances, three Grammys, and an induction into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame