enhttp://www.laopera.com/60EPiServer CMS 5http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/9/Don-Giovanni-the-Unknowable/“Donna folle! indarno gridi, Chi son io tu non saprai!” (Crazed woman!, you scream in vain; who I am, you will never know!”) Writing on the subject of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni is easy, because the subject is va...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/9/Don-Giovanni-the-Unknowable/Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:30:46 GMTMozartMaestro James ConlonJames ConlonDon Giovannihttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Jennifer-Babcock/Dates/2012/9/Its-all-fun-and-opera-gamesmore-Community-Educators-Training/Every day, I reaffirm how strange life really is. Take my first volunteering session. I flew into a diva rage, flung M&M packs everywhere, slammed Cio-Cio San, pranced around the room like a bird, declared that I had stabbed someone, morphed into...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Jennifer-Babcock/Dates/2012/9/Its-all-fun-and-opera-gamesmore-Community-Educators-Training/Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:34:57 GMTeducationadvisory committeeinternshipsteachersCommunity Educatorshttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/9/Why-We-Sing---LA-Opera-and-City-of-Hope/I've been fortunate enough to sing at several of the LA Opera 's City of Hope concerts. While it's always an honor to participate as an artist, I have never received the response I did yesterday afternoon.  Following the concert, I stayed outside...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/9/Why-We-Sing---LA-Opera-and-City-of-Hope/Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:58 GMTBlogRooteducationcommunityoperahttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Jennifer-Babcock/Dates/2012/9/Opera-for-Educators-in-one-word-Enthralling/ If I had to sum up what Opera for Educators was like in one word, it would be “enthralling.” The 2012-13 season at LA Opera has it all, intrigue, political upheaval, sex, murder, pirates, black curses, eternal and tragic love and, of course the...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Jennifer-Babcock/Dates/2012/9/Opera-for-Educators-in-one-word-Enthralling/Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:44:41 GMTeducationcommunity programsOpera for Educatorshttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/9/LA-Opera-Launches-New-Season-with-Ignite/LA Opera opened its 2012/13 Season on September 15 with the Company Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's The Two Foscari , starring General Director Plácido Domingo (performing his 140 th role and celebrating his 45 th season in Los Angeles) and conducted...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/9/LA-Opera-Launches-New-Season-with-Ignite/Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:58:00 GMThttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Margie-Schnibbe/Dates/2012/9/Technical-Department/A lot of attention has been given to the fire breather effect in our new production of The Two Foscari. The fire breather, an experienced professional, enters the stage with a lit self-extinguishing torch. On a pre-determined musical cue he fills...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Margie-Schnibbe/Dates/2012/9/Technical-Department/Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:02:45 GMTThe Two Foscarifire breathertechnicalhttp://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/10/Mary-Jane-Phillips-The-Miracle-of-Butterfly/Today, when Giacomo Puccini’s operas are popular as never before, it is difficult to imagine a time when he was a failure, yet he struggled for nearly ten start-up years before he could score a solid success. In that period he often fell into...http://www.laopera.com/news/blog/Dates/2012/10/Mary-Jane-Phillips-The-Miracle-of-Butterfly/Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:30:33 GMT