﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><language>en</language><title>Blog</title><link>http://www.laopera.com/</link><description /><ttl>60</ttl><generator>EPiServer CMS 5</generator><item><title>A Backstage Look at Day 3 of Scenery Assemble </title><link>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Margie-Schnibbe/Dates/2013/5/A-Backstage-Look-at-Day-3-of-Scenery-Assemble-/</link><description>The Tosca scenery arrived from Houston in three 53-foot trucks in thousands of small pieces. It normally takes our stage crew two or three days to assemble all of the pieces into a full stage setting. With rental or incoming productions, minor...</description><guid>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Margie-Schnibbe/Dates/2013/5/A-Backstage-Look-at-Day-3-of-Scenery-Assemble-/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 15:44:02 GMT</pubDate><category>Behind the scenes</category><category>LA Opera</category><category>technical</category><category>Tech Department</category><category>scenery</category><category>Tosca</category></item><item><title>Floria Tosca and the Freedom of the Artist</title><link>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2013/4/Floria-Tosca-and-the-Freedom-of-the-Artist/</link><description>By John Caird Tosca is one of the greatest works of music theater ever written and its importance is undiminished a century after Puccini wrote it. Its narrative is deceptively simple. It involves the lives of three principal characters. Cavarados...</description><guid>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2013/4/Floria-Tosca-and-the-Freedom-of-the-Artist/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:14:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Celebration with Domingo</title><link>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2013/4/A-Celebration-with-Domingo/</link><description>On June 7, LA Opera will present An Evening of Spanish Zarzuela and Latin American Music , followed by the presentation of Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera’s annual Plácido Domingo Award. Plácido Domingo will perform as both singer and as conductor...</description><guid>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2013/4/A-Celebration-with-Domingo/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:27:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tosca La Latina</title><link>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2013/4/Tosca-La-Latina/</link><description>By William Berger Tosca drives people crazy. The opera brings out venom in people—even in people who normally digest the outrageousness of other operas with ease. Composer Benjamin Britten said he was “sickened” by the music’s “cheapness and...</description><guid>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2013/4/Tosca-La-Latina/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:44:22 GMT</pubDate><category>BlogRoot</category></item><item><title>Noah's Flood: Taking The Leap</title><link>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Jennifer-Babcock/Dates/2013/4/Noahs-Flood-Taking-The-Leap/</link><description>Muse Lee, our favorite high school blogger, has returned for a series on her participation in the Community Opera production of Benjamin Britten's&amp;nbsp; Noah's Flood . Performances were this past weekend, April 19 and 20 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of...</description><guid>http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Jennifer-Babcock/Dates/2013/4/Noahs-Flood-Taking-The-Leap/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:54:25 GMT</pubDate><category>education</category><category>Students</category><category>LA Opera</category><category>Youth</category><category>James Conlon</category><category>community programs</category><category>Muse Lee</category><category>Benjamin Britten</category><category>Britten 100/LA</category><category>Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels</category><category>Eli Villanueva</category><category>Noah's Flood (Noye's Fludde)</category><category>Heather Lipson-Bell</category><category>Paul Floyd</category></item></channel></rss>