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"A rare chance to hear Braunfels's lighthearted, tenderly spiritual and little-known fable…James Conlon lavished attention on the music, drawing rapturously colorful and confident playing from the orchestra."
-The New York Times
"A marvelous performance…the orchestra sounded radiant."
-Los Angeles Times
"Conlon conducted with lustrous élan…We should hear more of Braunfels' work.
-Financial Times, London
James Conlon continues his exploration of longforgotten masterpieces by the lost generation of composers affected by the Holocaust. Featured in this year's Recovered Voices series will be a lush, late Romantic work reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner. Walter Braunfels freely adapted the ancient Greek comic-dramatist Aristophanes's play The Birds to compose what he described as an "airy play of imagination...everything here is a game, a metaphor."
Soprano Désirée Rancatore, makes her Company debut in the high-flying role of the Nightingale. Winner of the 2007 Richard Tucker Award, Brandon Jovanovich makes a first LA Opera appearance in the role of Good Hope. Also starring Stacey Tappan, James Johnson, Martin
Gantner and Brian Mulligan.



* LA Opera debut.
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The Birds
2008/09
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Production
LA Opera, 2008/09
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Cast & Creative
LA Opera, 2008/09
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RUNNING TIME
2 hours and 50 minutes
including one intermission
PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE
One hour prior to each performance.
James Conlon interviewed by Michael Hackett
Pre-performance lectures are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Company Premiere
New Production
UNDERWRITER(S)
New production made possible by major
grants from MARILYN ZIERING and
the ZIERING FAMILY FOUNDATION
Additional Generous support from
THURMOND SMITHGALL and
THE LANIE & ETHEL FOUNDATION,
HERBERT SIMON FOUNDATION, LOUIS COLEN,
MARK HOUSTEN DALZELL,
EUGENE AND MARILYN STEIN,
And the MARC AND EVA STERN FOUNDATION
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