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I’m meeting with her, LBO artistic director and chief creative officer James Darrah and music director Christopher Rountree over a boisterous lunch, and my first question is: So whose idea was it to devote an entire season to Pauline Oliveros?

The LBO team, moreover, is convinced that since Oliveros’ death in 2016 at age 84, her relevance has grown to the point where we are in an obvious Oliveros moment.

Lest LBO be mistaken for New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Met mezzo-soprano who starred as the gypsy in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” will sing whatever animal is needed in Oliveros’ “El Relicario de los Animales,” which will be mounted at Heritage Square Museum on Feb. 15 and 16.

“Relicario,” which was first given as a concert work at the 1979 CalArts Contemporary Music Festival, will be the first of LBO’s so-called three Oliveros operas.

LBO turned this into an enthusiastically engaging group improvisation.