L.A. Opera: Horror Movies w/Live Orchestra

2025 Presentation: Film music specialist Frank Strobel conducts LA Opera Orchestra in a live-to-film performance of composer Roy Budd’s score for The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

Dates & Hours: October 30 &31 at 8pm. Free after-party on Friday only (Update: Friday show is sold out.)

Tickets: Starting at $66.

Location: The United Theatre (formerly The Theatre at Ace Hotel), 929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015.

Website: laopera.org.

Every Halloween, the L.A. Opera offers a mash-up of cinematic horror and orchestral music, featuring live renditions of soundtrack scores performed in synch with such films as Get Out (2017), Psycho (1960), Frankenstein (1931), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). In cases where the film was released without music, new scores are commissioned. IN 2024, Lina González-Granados, conducted The LA Opera Orchestra in a live-to-film performance of Gustavo Santaolalla’s world premiere score for the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula, starring Carlos Villarías.

Check out the trailer for L.A. Opera’s 2022 presentation of Frankenstein…