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Our opening opera, The Elixir of Love, is just
the first of the season's thrilling productions, and I am eager for you to
experience what we have to offer: unforgettable music, performed by
superlative artists, matched with theatrically dazzling stagings crafted
by outstanding directors and designers.
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LA Opera's 2009/10 season opens with Donizetti's The Elixir of
Love (September 12 through 30), starring |
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with Nino Machaidze as Adina, Nathan
Gunn as Belcore and Giorgio Caoduro as
Dulcamara. James Conlon, the Company's Richard Seaver Music Director,
conducts a revival of our popular Stephen Lawless production.
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With his mighty sword, the heroic Siegfried slays a dragon, claims the
coveted golden ring, defeats the great god Wotan in battle, and walks
through fire to awaken the beautiful sleeping warrior-goddess
Brünnhilde with a kiss. Tenor John Treleaven
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returns to the LA Opera stage in the title role. LA
Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director James Conlon
conducts
a new production directed and designed by the acclaimed theater artist
Achim Freyer.
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Two extraordinary artists come together for the first staging of Wagner's
complete Der Ring des Nibelungen in Los Angeles: conductor James
Conlon and visionary director/designer Achim Freyer. The result is the
most vivid and dazzling production of these four operas you will ever
experience! "A thrill a minute" (Opera Today). "A bold
concept....sure to attract Wagnerites with adventurous spirits"
(London's Financial Times).
LA Opera's Ring cycle promises to be one of the hottest tickets
in the opera world. Place your order today to receive priority before the
cycle you want is sold out. www.laoperaring.com
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Multi-tasking maestro James Conlon,currently rehearsing LA Opera's
Elixir of Love and Siegfried, had a full summer schedule
at the Ravina Festival that included leading the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra in a concert performance of Rigoletto, as well as
several orchestral concerts featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Copland, Mahler and Weill. The later program reunited Conlon with Patti
LuPone, star of LA Opera's Rise and Fall of the City of
Mahagonny, who performed Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.
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Thomas Hampson's October 3 recital at LA Opera will be just one aspect of
the baritone's "Song of America" project featuring a nationwide series of
concerts, recitals and lectures celebrating the art of American song.
"These songs—our songs—say everything about the culture we call American,"
comments Mr. Hampson. His October 3 recital for LA Opera, which will also
include a selection of German Lieder, will be his first appearance with
the Company since his 1987 debut as Marcello in La Bohčme. Tickets can be
purchased at the LA Opera Box Office, by phone at (213) 972-8001 or online
at www.laopera.com.
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Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato took that theatrical adage a bit too far on
the opening night of Covent Garden's production of The Barber of
Seville in early July. While maneuvering around the stage as Rosina
in Act I, she slipped and fell. Thinking that she had sprained her ankle,
she soldiered on, finishing the performance with a cane. Not so. A broken
tibula was the ultimate diagnosis, and the opening night "cast" party was
held in her hospital room, with her leg now encased in a full plaster
cast. Subsequent performances featured an undeterred Rosina wheeling
herself around the stage in a wheelchair. Joyce has promised to be
cast-free when she makes her LA Opera debut in Barber
this November. You can read her account of the experience at
www.yankeediva.blogspot.com.
Legendary filmmaker Woody Allen made his European
operatic debut as a director with LA Opera's production of Puccini's
Gianni Schicchi at this year's Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto,
Italy, attended by Plácido Domingo. James Conlon, a longtime presence at
Spoleto, was on the podium as he was when this production opened LA
Opera's 2008/09 season. Il Messagero proclaimed it a "big hit"
while the Corrierre della Sera noted Conlon's conducting was
"sublime" and the performance received a 10-minute standing ovation.
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