Diane Gray holding a copy of the famous “Aria” cookbook compiled by OLLA volunteers
Opera League Volunteers at a Cast Dinner in the Green Room
Volunteers at the OLLA Trip to the Santa Fe Opera House in 2015. Left – Right: Mike Phillips, Beverly Phillips, Kathy Crandall, Mimi Rotter
2001 Soprano Suzanna Guzman, Chris Topher Hahn
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Ray Busmann modeling a costume at the Costume Shop Tour
Volunteers at the Peter Hemmings Award Dinner in 2015. Left – Right: Steve and Karen Kohn, Barbara and Bill Green
Opera League Volunteers waiting for the busses to bring in students for Saturday Morning at the Opera
Lorna Blancaflor and Claire Chambless at an Orange County Gathering at the home of Sylvia Traub
OLLA Volunteers at a Cast Dinner including Laurel Howat, Carol Donlon, Monica Gutierrez-Roper, Karen Kohn, Rebecca Bowne among other volunteers
May 1999 Left - Right Robert Marino, Madeleine Coulombe, Alice Coulombe, George Dunning
2010 Hemmings Dinner at the Athenaeum Dan Donlan with "Opera Dog" Elbert
Left – Right: Pianist, Unknown Suzanna Guzman, William Vendice, Unknown, Michael Gallup, Unknown
Dress Rehearsal Ticket Pickup – Left – Right: Unknown, Unknown. Seated: Ann Mosser. Standing: Allan Edmiston, Alma Guzman
Opera League at the Fashion Institute. Molly and Dick Siefert
2010 Hemmings Award Dinner at the Athenaeum Left – Right: Margi Mostue, Rebecca Bowne, Nina Haro, Diane Gray, Alma Guzman, Wendy Van Haerlem, Judy Lieb, Unknown
Opera League at the Fashion Institute
Opera League at the Fashion Institute. Left: Alyce Williamson
Early AALAO Members
Volunteers at the Peter Hemmings Award Dinner in 2015. Left – Right: Mike Phillips, Monica Gutierrez-Roper, Carol Daskal, Tom Lady
Opera League bus fund sponsoring student trips to Saturday Morning at the Opera
1999 Left – Right: Singer, Alicia Garcia Clark, Sherwin Sloan
Left - Right Stacy Brightman, Margaret Merritt
Luxury Drawing Event Left - Right Doris Koplick, Delores Kerr, Ben Kerr, Rebecca Bowne, Annilese Silverio
John Welch, Unknown, Stu Bowne, Claire Chambless, Eric Owens, Fabiola Hensley, Bob Gilman, Unknown
Opera League Volunteers doing "Lightwalking" during rehearsals – Left – Right: Lynne Mitchell, Rosemarie Zaiser, Alma Guzman, Laurel Howat, Paula Settle
AALAO Event Left – Right: Eva Grant, Eric Owens, Joyce Nembhard, Joel Graham
Opera League at the Fashion Institute. Left – Right: Lynne Mitchell, Brita Millard, Alma Guzman, Mike Sholer, Carol Sholer, Susan Stamberger
AALAO Event Left - Right Ben Kerr, Eva Grant, Angel Blue, Delores Kerr
Left to Right Presidents: Lorraine Saunders, Molly Siefert, Toni Bird, David Barry, Anne Combs, Warren Schubert, Alice Coulombe
At the Hollywood Bowl OLLA Picnic and Opera in 2014
2010 Left – Right: Volunteers Patricia O'Donnell, Amalia Shebby, Carol Donlan, Fred Dear, Wendy Van Haerlem, Monica Gutierrez-Roper
2010 Fred Dear at the "Shop at the Opera"
Luxury Drawing June 1999 Left – Right: Unknown, Alice Coulombe, Jerry Faris
2010 LA Opera Ring Cycle Ed Schaff Volunteering at the OLLA Concierge Service booth
Musicale with Millicent Gappel and Ann Russell Sullivan
Thomas Shepard and Anne Russell Sullivan at an Orange County Musicale
Dale Ross and Anne Propokovych at the Premier Dinner in 2008
Eleanor Gnup attending the 2008 Master Class with Carol Vanness and Young Artists
Hemmings Award Dinner at Athenaeum Alice Coulombe presenting Jeff Kleeman with the Hemmings Award
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Peter Hemmings Retirement Event: Alan Hanson, Jay Galbraith
OLLA Volunteers - Left – Right: Ron Streicher, Unknown, Larry Verdugo, Mary Riggs at an Educator’s event for Ghosts of Versailles
Volunteers serving dinner at a Musicale at Millicent Gappel’s home: Dorothy Wait, Ed Schaff, Brita Millard
Saturday morning at the opera with students. Volunteer Ed Lieb in the back.
2018 One of Brita's European trips to Germany and Austria to see 7 different operas! Left – Right: Christa Marks, Hedda Ketsched-Tolomei, Ernie Propokovych, Anne Propokovych
Hemmings Retirement Event Left – Right: Carol Henry, Carol Bierhorst, Unknown
Peter Hemmings Retirement Event Left – Right: Tom Keiser, Jane Gifford, Bill Keiser, Dick Seifert
2014 - Austria, Left – Right: Back: Ernie Propokovych, Jack Schwartz, Judy Lieb, Stu Bowne. Middle: Mimi Rotter, Barbara Schelbert, Lisa Lyon, Jutta Gehlen, Rebecca Bowne, Gayle Kirschbaum Front: Randy Diaz, Brita Millard, Heinrich Schelbert, Ed Lieb, Robert Dornhelm, Peter Gray, Horst Gehlen, Rosalie Kornblau, Petra Zerbst, Larry Harper
Peter Hemmings Retirement Event: Left – Right: Unknown, Tina Gilfrey, Rod Gilfrey, Unknown, Paula Settle
Dr. Gordon Traub and John Welch at an Orange County Musicale at the home of Sylvia and Gordon Traub
2010 The Bezuyen Concert Inaugural Fundraiser for the Student Bus Fund: Arnold Bezuyen and Stacy Brightman
John Spear and Ernie Propokovych doing dishes at a Musicale at the home of Millicent Gappel
Artist Services Volunteer Jerry Farris picking up arriving artists from LAX
2010 LA Opera Ring Cycle Volunteers staffing the Opera League Concierge Service booth
2018 trip to Munich/Salzburg. Left – Right: Brita Millard, Diane Henderson, Tom Lady, Ed Lieb, Dan Donlon, Carol Donlon, Judy Lieb, Hedda Ketsched-Tolomei, Tina Perkins, Larry Verdugo
Warner and Carol Henry being presented the Hemmings award by Sherwin Sloan. Duff Murphy is on the right
2001 Membership Committee OLLA Office Left - Right Bob Bernard, Beverly Johnson, Robert Holmes, Lynne Mitchell, Audrey Hanson, Unknown
One of the famous fundraisers: The Luxury Drawing June, 2000
Left-Right Back: Bill Keiser, Unk, Warren Schubert, Barbara Merkle, Bernard Greenberg, Lynne Mitchell, Margaret Merritt, Paula Settle, Unk, Bob Holmes. Seated: Unk, Monica Weil, Unk, Audrey Hanson, Unk, Barbara Schufreider, Unk, Joann Toll