enhttp://www.laopera.com/60EPiServer CMS 5http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Tales-from-the-Costume-Shop/Fur hats for "Eugene Onegin" (photo by Robert Millard) Our costume shop is always full of fascinating things to see and equally fascinating, highly skilled artisans. Here’s a great interview with one of them, Hallie Dufresne, our Senior...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Tales-from-the-Costume-Shop/Fri, 04 May 2012 10:23:08 GMThttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/An-Insiders-Guide-to-the-Costume-Sale/Do the clothes really “make” the man or does the man make the clothes? We literally made these costumes in the LA Opera costume shop, and now we are giving you the chance to let them “make” you.* With Halloween fast approaching, you may be in the...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/An-Insiders-Guide-to-the-Costume-Sale/Fri, 04 May 2012 10:30:52 GMThttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Raves-for-Cosi-fan-tutte/There are only three more chances to see one of the most delightful Mozart productions you are ever likely to see! The critics have weighed in on our Così fan tutte , and they loved what they saw and heard (click on the links to access the full...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Raves-for-Cosi-fan-tutte/Fri, 04 May 2012 10:37:23 GMTCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Costume-Shop-Sale/On Sunday, October 9, just in time for Halloween, LA Opera will clear out its overstuffed costume racks with its second ever costume sale: “ Revenge of the LA Opera Costume Shop Sale! ” Trick-or-treating connoisseurs looking to stand out in a crow...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Costume-Shop-Sale/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:09:33 GMTRomeo et JulietteCostume Shop Salehttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Cosi-to-Onegin-in-3-minutes/The LA Times has created a cool time-lapse video of the stage crew transforming the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage from Cosi fan tutte to Eugene Onegin . Check it out here . http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Cosi-to-Onegin-in-3-minutes/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:02 GMThttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Behind-the-Scenes-Onegin-Video/We’ve just added a new behind-the-scenes video for Eugene Onegin . Click here to watch James Conlon prepare for the season-opening company premiere. http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Behind-the-Scenes-Onegin-Video/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:16:20 GMThttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Food-stands-are-back/Coming to Eugene Onegin or Così fan tutte ? Come hungry! We’ve teamed up with the Patina Restaurant Group to present a new outdoor dining option at the southeast corner of the Music Center Plaza (inspired by the huge success of our Ring cycle beer...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Food-stands-are-back/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:20:10 GMTBlogRoothttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Conlon-Visceral-vs-Intellectual-Audiences/James Conlon, LA Opera’s Richard Seaver Music Director, explains the difference between Paris and Los Angeles audiences. Click here to read it. http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Conlon-Visceral-vs-Intellectual-Audiences/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:39:44 GMTBlogRoothttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Another-Opening-Another-Show/The curtain has risen on the 2011/12 with a fantastic performance of Eugene Onegin. How about some Mozart to keep the celebration going? Cosi fan tutte opens tomorrow at 2pm. If you can’t be here with us in the theater, join us at home by listenin...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Another-Opening-Another-Show/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:43:39 GMTOneginCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Were-number-one/With our season opening this weekend, we’re #1 on the “Los Angeles Downtown News” list of top five things to do this weekend. Click here for your weekend entertainment to-do list. http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Were-number-one/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:46:30 GMTOneginCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Ten-Questions-for-Aleksandra-Kurzak/When our Fiordiligi, Aleksandra Kurzak, took on the Out West Arts questionnaire, we found out that she was destined from birth to be an opera singer. Click here to find out why. Photo by Andrzej Swietlik http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Ten-Questions-for-Aleksandra-Kurzak/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:49:21 GMTCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Hollywood-Heartthrob/It’s official (although we knew it already). Ildebrando D’Arcangelo is a barihunk. For further proof, click here . http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Hollywood-Heartthrob/Fri, 11 May 2012 13:55:59 GMTCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Ten-Questions-for-Ildebrando-dArcangelo/Bass-baritone Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, who’ll make his LA Opera debut on Sunday as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, takes on Out West Arts’ questionnaire. Click here to read it. http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Ten-Questions-for-Ildebrando-dArcangelo/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:12 GMTCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Joy-for-Gioia/  There’s a terrific review at Parterre Box for soprano Aleksandra Kurzak’s solo CD debut. (She’s our Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte .)   “By any measure, this disc is a feast of great singing…a triumphant offering from an artist whom I believe to b...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Joy-for-Gioia/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:03:40 GMTBlogRoothttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Ten-Questions-for-Francesca-Gilpin/Francesca Gilipin, stage director for Eugene Onegin, takes on Out West Arts’ questionnaire. Click here to read it. http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Ten-Questions-for-Francesca-Gilpin/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:07:38 GMTBlogRoothttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Meet-Alexander-Prior/Alexander Prior has been commissioned to compose LA Opera’s new opera for families, Jonah and the Whale, which will have its world premiere   in March 2012 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, conducted by James Conlon. The fast-rising,...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Meet-Alexander-Prior/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:13:43 GMTjonah cathedralAlexander Priorhttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/LA-Opera-Commissions-Jonah-and-the-Whale/Alexander Prior, the composer of "Jonah and the Whale" LA Opera has had enormous success with its annual productions at the Cathedral   of Our Lady of the Angels, bringing together Angelenos of all ages for community performances of Britten’s Noye...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/LA-Opera-Commissions-Jonah-and-the-Whale/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:23:12 GMTjonah cathedralhttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Love-and-its-Discontents/By Basil De Pinto Of the three operas which Mozart made from librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte, Così fan tutte has always been the most problematic. It has neither the sheer musical grandeur of Don Giovanni nor the expansive humanity of The Marriage o...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Love-and-its-Discontents/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:38:13 GMTBlogRoothttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/The-Dark-Side-of-the-Age-of-Reason/By James Kincaid Twist it how you will, Così fan tutte is a squirm-inducing opera. It’s been suggested that one is best served by blocking out the lyrics, blinding oneself to the supertitles. Short of that, we seem to be faced with a bitter fable...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/The-Dark-Side-of-the-Age-of-Reason/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:45:24 GMTCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/James-Conlon-Lessons-from-the-School-for-Lovers/Errare humanum est… (To err is human) “Così fan tutte le belle…non c’e alcuna novita” (That is the way all the beautiful women do it, there is nothing new), exclaims Don Basilio, when he discovers the apparently unfaithful Susanna alone in her roo...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/James-Conlon-Lessons-from-the-School-for-Lovers/Fri, 11 May 2012 14:56:55 GMTCosihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Salvatore-Licitra-1968-2011/Opera has lost one of its brightest stars, tenor Salvatore Licitra , who died at the age of 43 on September 5 after suffering head and chest injuries in a scooter accident in Sicily on August 27. Los Angeles audiences were fortunate to experience...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Salvatore-Licitra-1968-2011/Fri, 11 May 2012 15:03:42 GMThttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Eugene-Onegin-Duty-Absurdity-and-the-Everyday/By James Kincaid Tchaikovsky tells us he was, at first, alarmed at the idea of turning Pushkin’s beloved masterpiece Eugene Onegin into an opera. Luckily for us, he soon saw in that poetic narrative a chance to escape “Egyptian princesses, pharaoh...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Admin/Dates/2011/9/Eugene-Onegin-Duty-Absurdity-and-the-Everyday/Fri, 11 May 2012 15:58:41 GMTOnegin