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Category: Los Angeles Opera

  • Layoffs at LA Opera

    Los Angeles Opera laid off 17 people and also cut pay for all employees. LA Times Blog | Official Site

  • LA Opera’s 2009-2010 Season

    September 12-30 2009: L'Elisir d'AmoreSeptember 26- October 17 2009: SiegfriedNovember 21- December 1 2009: TamerlanoNovember 29- December 19 2009: Il barbiere di SivigliaApril 3-25 2010: Die GötterdämmerungApril 12-24 2010: Die GezeichnetenMay 29- June 26 2010: Der Ring des Nibelungen Nathan Gunn stars in L'Elisir with Rolando Villazón and in Il barbiere with Juan Diego Flórez and Joyce DiDonato.…

  • Carmen at LA Opera

      * Notes * Los Angeles Opera is midway through a revival of Carmen from Teatro Real. Emilio Sagi's production is a bit avant garde, the set is traditional looking enough, and the costumes have a traditional feel with a few rough edges. The ending has been fiddled with, such that Carmen somehow takes a…

  • Ring Festival LA

    Today it was announced that there will be a citywide festival for the Ring Cycle from April 15 through June 30, 2010. Los Angeles Opera's Der Ring des Nibelungen runs from May 29 until June 26, 2010.

  • Il Trittico at LA Opera

    * Notes * There has been much ado about Woody Allen directing his first opera, one third of Puccini's Il Trittico, with William Friedkin, famed director of The Exorcist, directing the other two thirds. One cannot help feeling a bit skeptical of Los Angeles Opera hiring three film directors for the opening performances of the…

  • The Fly at LA Opera

    * Notes * The Fly opened at Los Angeles Opera earlier this month and has one more performance next weekend. Based only partially on David Cronenberg’s 1986 film, the action is set in the 1950s, as George Langelaan’s short story and the original film are. All in all, this production was entertainingly campy, though a…

  • LA Opera Podcast

    Los Angeles Opera's Behind the Curtain podcast has been updated with 6 episodes, all interviews of the artists in Il Trittico, which opens the season this Saturday. One imagines further content on The Fly and other upcoming operas are forthcoming. Behind the Curtain | Official Site

  • The Fly at Théâtre du Chatelet

    The world premiere of Howard Shore’s The Fly happened last night at the Théâtre du Châtelet. The opera opens in the United States on September 7th at Los Angeles Opera. Official Site | Production Site for Théâtre du Chatelet | Production Site for LA Opera Reviews: Bloomberg | The Guardian UK | The Telegraph | IHT

  • Contemplating an LA Opera Subscription

    During my last visit, my mother extracted a promise to take her to see Madama Butterfly whenever it happened to come around in Southern California. Of course, I remembered that Madama Butterfly is to be performed at Los Angeles Opera next season, and thankfully only overlaps slightly with Idomeneo in San Francisco. This means I…

  • Der Zerbrochene Krug and Der Zwerg at LA Opera

    * Notes * Der zerbrochene Krug had its US premiere at Los Angeles Opera yesterday, along with the West Coast premiere of Der Zwerg, both part of James Conlon's Recovered Voices: A Lost Generation's Long-Forgotten Masterpieces project. Both operas are impressive. The comedic Der zerbrochene Krug (1941/1942) was Viktor Ullmann's last composition before he was…