LA OPERA BOARD DIRECTORY
LA OPERA BOARD DIRECTORY
2026-27 SEASON
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CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH
Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco
Ex-Officio - President and Chief Executive Officer
CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH
Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco
Ex-Officio - President and Chief Executive Officer
Christopher Koelsch is the Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco President and CEO of LA Opera, where he oversees all aspects of both artistic and strategic business planning. He has overseen the creation of more than 60 new productions, including eight world premieres. Under his leadership, the company has launched a number of critical artistic initiatives designed to expand the reach of the institution and substantially diversify its artistic product, including Off Grand, an annual series of experimental programs in nontraditional venues. He has served as executive producer for 12 audio and video recordings for LA Opera, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Ghosts of Versailles, each of which was awarded two Grammy Awards.
DOMINGO HINDOYAN
Richard Seaver Music Director
Ex-Officio
DOMINGO HINDOYAN
Richard Seaver Music Director
Ex-Officio
Domingo Hindoyan made his LA Opera debut in November 2024 with Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. He made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut earlier that year leading Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairy-Tale Poem. Domingo Hindoyan is the Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and former Principal Guest Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. On the opera stage in recent seasons, he has led various productions with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Opera National de Bordeaux, Chicago Lyric Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Opera du Rhin, Royal Swedish Opera, Opera Dijon and Royal Opera House Muscat. Domingo Hindoyan was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He began his career as a violinist and member of the renowned Venezuelan musical education program El Sistema, and then was a member of Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He later went on to study conducting in Europe at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Professor Laurent Gay and was the first assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin between 2013 and 2016. (Read full bio)
OFFICERS
OFFICERS
MARC STERN
Honorary Chairman
(1992)
MARC STERN
Honorary Chairman
(1992)
Marc Stern is Chairman of The TCW Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based asset management firm with approximately $250 billion of assets under management. Since 1990, Mr. Stern has held a number of senior management positions at TCW including CEO, President and Vice Chairman. He also held a variety of senior positions at Société Générale Group, one of the largest financial institutions in Europe, which owned TCW from 2001 to 2013. Prior to joining TCW in 1990, Mr. Stern was President and a Director of SunAmerica and prior to that, was a senior executive with the Henley Group and its predecessor companies. Mr. Stern began his career in 1970 as an attorney with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. Mr. Stern is a minority owner of both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Milwaukee Bucks. He is also Honorary Chairman of the Los Angeles Opera. In addition, Mr. Stern currently serves on the Boards of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Committee, the California Institute of Technology, the Alliance for Southern California Innovation and The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs. Mr. Stern was formerly a Director of Qualcomm, Inc., a Vice-Chair of The Salk Institute, and was Founding Chairman of both the Mayor’s Fund Los Angeles and of The President’s Council of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He holds a BA from Dickinson College, an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Public Law and Government and a JD from the Columbia University School of Law. Mr. Stern and his wife, Eva, live in Malibu, California, and have two children and six grandchildren.
KEITH R. LEONARD
Chairman
(2015)
KEITH R. LEONARD
Chairman
(2015)
Keith R. Leonard is a biotechnology entrepreneur and investor. He is the Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of UNITY Biotechnology, a company focused on developing therapeutics that prevent, halt or reverse diseases of aging. Prior to UNITY, he was founder and Chief Executive Officer of KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals from 2005 until its acquisition by Allergan in 2015. Mr. Leonard held senior executive positions at Amgen Inc., the world’s largest biotechnology company, including from 2001 to 2004, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Amgen Europe where he was responsible for Amgen’s commercial operations in 28 European countries. Mr. Leonard also led the creation of the Amgen’s rheumatology business, served as worldwide Head of Information Management, and served in various leadership roles in sales and marketing, engineering, operations, and finance. In addition to UNITY, Mr. Leonard serves on the boards of robotic surgery pioneer Intuitive Surgical, and dermatology innovator ARCUTIS Biotherapeutics. He was formerly an active-duty officer in the U.S. Navy. He and his wife of 38 years, Nanette, have provided significant leadership and financial support to philanthropies focused on healthcare delivery in the US and abroad, veteran’s care, urban poverty, education, and the environment. Mr. Leonard received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, a B.A. in European History from the University of Maryland, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
BERNARD A. GREENBERG
Vice Chairman Emeritus and Founding Board Member
(1986)
BERNARD A. GREENBERG
Vice Chairman Emeritus and Founding Board Member
(1986)
Bernard A. Greenberg is a longtime member of the Los Angeles Opera board and is also an emeritus member of the Los Angeles Music Center board. Mr. Greenberg and several of his law school classmates, together with a few interested others, founded the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera with its initial performances at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles. The company moved to the Music Center as the resident opera company shortly after the completion of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the mid 1960s. After hiring Peter Hemmings as its general director in the mid 1980s, the company began creating its own productions. Mr. Greenberg has continued on the board throughout the company’s history and has served as president, as chairman and now as a vice-chairman. Bernie lives in Beverly Hills with his wife, Lenore, who is an Honorary Life Director of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
LESLIE DORMAN
Chairman, Executive Committee
(1999)
LESLIE DORMAN
Chairman, Executive Committee
(1999)
Leslie A. Dorman is president of the Sterling Foundation, a philanthropic foundation which focuses on programs that address barriers to college for African-American and Latino students in inner-city Los Angeles neighborhoods. She previously served for eight years as executive director of the Whitecap Foundation which funded projects involving family support, youth education, and wildlife conservation. She has also held positions as assistant executive director of the Los Angeles Educational Partnership, director of development for KUSC-FM, and she spent ten years with the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a non-profit, non-partisan international affairs organization. In addition to her work on the board of Los Angeles Opera, she serves on the board of the Yosemite Conservancy. A native of Winnetka, Illinois, Ms. Dorman holds a BA in political science and sociology from Occidental College. She is married to John Dorman and they have one daughter, Brooke Niss.
CAROL F. HENRY
Vice Chairman
(1986)
CAROL F. HENRY
Vice Chairman
(1986)
Carol Henry received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University in 1961 and 1962 respectively, and taught in Manhattan Beach until 1966, when she married the late Warner Henry. She has three grown children and nine grandchildren. Her volunteer career began in 1970 with her involvement with the Junior League of Los Angeles. Since that time, she has served on many community boards including the KCET Women’s Council, the National Council on Alcoholism, Cate School, Teach for America, the Opera League of Los Angeles, the Pasadena Art Alliance and Art Center College of Design. She currently serves on the board of counselors of USC’s Thornton School of Music, the board of the Colburn School, and chairs the board of Opera America. She has served on the board of directors of Los Angeles Opera since its founding, and as its president, chairman of the executive committee and vice chairman. Carol has residences in Pasadena, San Francisco and Park City, Utah.
ROBERT RONUS
Vice Chairman
(2007)
ROBERT RONUS
Vice Chairman
(2007)
Robert Ronus was born in London in 1942, the son of a Swiss father and an English mother. His late Australian wife, Ann, was from a very musical family. He was educated at Oxford University. He spent almost all his professional career in the investment management business, first with Henderson Administration in London and since 1972 with The Capital Group Companies. He joined Capital’s Geneva office in 1972 and moved to Los Angeles in 1983. For many years he was a portfolio manager responsible for both global and non-U.S. equity portfolios for clients around the world. He held a variety of positions during his career at Capital, including Director of International Research and non-executive Chairman of The Capital Group Companies. He is now retired . Robert has one son, one daughter and two irresistible granddaughters. Robert likes traveling to new places and plays an exceptionally bad game of golf. He is Treasurer and a governor of the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
BARRY A. SANDERS
Vice Chairman
(2007)
BARRY A. SANDERS
Vice Chairman
(2007)
Barry Sanders is an adjunct professor at UCLA, in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communications. He teaches public diplomacy, architectural communication, and negotiation. He is the author of American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination; The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games; and Bringing the Olympics Back to Los Angeles: A History of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, 1984 to 2014 (with Ann Owens). For over 35 years he practiced law with Latham & Watkins, specializing in international corporate transactions. He founded and chaired the International Law Section of the California State Bar. In 2019 the California State Lawyers Association awarded him its Warren Christopher Award as "International Lawyer of the Year." He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He chaired the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games from 2003 to 2016. From 2007 to 2014 he was president of the board of commissioners of Recreation and Parks of the City of Los Angeles and a member of the board of commissioners of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Los Angeles Parks Foundation. Sanders is Vice-Chair of the Ojai Music Festival. He was president and chairman of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Public Library Foundation. He has also served on the boards of the Music Center, Music Center Foundation, Walt Disney Concert Hall Corporation, Joffrey Ballet, League of American Orchestras, among others. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School.
EUGENE P. STEIN
Vice Chairman
(1997)
EUGENE P. STEIN
Vice Chairman
(1997)
Eugene P. Stein is vice chairman and a director of Capital Strategy Research, Inc., a director of Capital Research and Management Company, and a senior vice president of Capital World Investors, all units of Capital Group Companies, a global investment management organization. He has previously served as chairman of investment committees and various management committees at different Capital Group units. Gene serves on the board of directors at Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, and he is a trustee of Pitzer College. He is president of the Tikun Olam Foundation, a support organization of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles. He also serves on the investment advisory committee of the City of La Cañada Flintridge. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from UCLA and his MBA from Harvard University. He and his wife Mindy live in La Cañada. They have three children and eight grandchildren.
REGINA WEINGARTEN
Vice Chairman
(2016)
REGINA WEINGARTEN
Vice Chairman
(2016)
Regina Weingarten was raised and educated in Paris, France. She received her Doctorate from the Sorbonne and has since dedicated her efforts to promoting cultural links between France and the United States. Regina and her husband, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, a Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation, lived and raised their family in Paris for over 25 years before moving to Los Angeles in 2015. Together, they founded and are philanthropic partners at GRoW @ Annenberg, a philanthropic initiative of the Annenberg Foundation. Regina’s philanthropic efforts have earned her several honors over the years including France’s prestigious awards- the Légion d'Honneur and the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres- for creating a vibrant partnership between France and the United States. Regina serves on multiple boards and advisory committees including: Paris’s Les Talens Lyriques, the Paris Opera and Ballet (Association pour le Rayonnement de L’Opéra de Paris), Ecole Jeannine Manuel, the American Friends of the Louvre Museum and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Lisbon’s Afghanistan National Institute of Music; London’s National Gallery and the V&A Museum; New York’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum; and Los Angeles’s LA Opera and LA Phil.
PAUL D. TOSETTI
Secretary
(2004)
PAUL D. TOSETTI
Secretary
(2004)
Paul Tosetti is an of-counsel attorney with the Los Angeles law firm Latham & Watkins LLP. A member of the firm’s Corporate Department, he co-headed its Global Mergers and Acquisitions Group for ten years. Mr. Tosetti is a 1976 graduate of Harvard College, a 1979 graduate of Oxford University (Magdalen College), and a 1981 graduate of the Harvard Law School. Mr. Tosetti and his wife Catherine live in San Marino, and have two children: Christopher and Jonathan. He also serves as president of the board of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc., and was formerly a member of the board of the California Club.
PENELOPE D. FOLEY (PENNY)
Treasurer
(2016)
PENELOPE D. FOLEY (PENNY)
Treasurer
(2016)
Penelope D. Foley is a portfolio manager for TCW Emerging Markets and serves on the board of The TCW Group. Prior to joining TCW in 1990, she was a senior vice president of Drexel Burnham Lambert where she was involved in the management of DBL Americas Development Association, L.P., and in the provision of investment and merchant banking services in Latin America. Before Drexel, she was a vice president in Citicorp’s Investment Bank and was responsible for Eurosecurities, project finance and private placements in Latin America and Canada. Previously, she was an associate in the corporate finance department at Lehman Brothers.
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