Have you met Alice Coulombe? Listening to the co-founder and first president of the Opera League talk about the League’s origins is fascinating. The Opera League birth was not unlike many Internet startups today. You had a small collection of passionate people who made it up as they went along.

Most Opera Leaguers only know Allan Edmiston as the moderator of the seminars we put on four times a year, but of course this Evanston, Illinois native is so much more than that.

Robert Ronus, LA Opera Treasurer and longtime supporter of opera education, community engagement and volunteerism, is this year’s Peter Hemmings Award honoree presented by the Opera League.

They are the single source of opera truth.

Melisandra Drucker is LA Opera Music Librarian.

Helen Altenbach plays cello for the LA Opera Orchestra.