Edwin Lester(1895-1990)
- Producer
Born in New York City, Edwin Lester founded the Los Angeles Civic Light
Opera (LACLO) in 1938, serving as the company's General Director until
his retirement in 1975. The LACLO offered annual subscription series of
musicals and operettas, some of which were created at the LACLO and
others which were brought directly from Broadway to Los Angeles.
Several of the works that Lester commissioned for the LACLO went on to
wide international success, including "Song of Norway" (1944),
"Magdalena" (1948), "Kismet" (1953), "Peter Pan" (1954) and "Gigi"
(1973).
