An award-winning dream team of composer Howard Shore, director David Cronenberg, and playwright David Henry Hwang makes an intriguing LA Opera debut bringing a cult classic to life.

Plácido Domingo conducts the U.S. premiere of the LA Opera-commissioned opera written by Oscar®-winning composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) based on the original 1957 George Langelaan short story as well as David Cronenberg’s 1986 film, with a libretto by the Tony Award®-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). This marks not only the operatic debut of the film director, but also the LA Opera debut of the celebrated Academy Award®-winning designer Dante Ferretti (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd).

Time magazine described The Fly as "a profound parable on love and loss." In its metamorphosis into an opera, this dark romantic tragedy presents a Kafkaesque meditation on man's uneasy relationship with technology. As the doomed scientist Seth Brundle and his girlfriend Veronica Quaife, Daniel Okulitch and Ruxandra Donose will be making their LA Opera debuts. Gary Lehman plays the part of Veronica's editor and former lover, Stathis Borans.

Sunday September 7, 2008 2:00 p.m. Buy Tickets Wednesday September 10, 2008 7:30 p.m. Buy Tickets Saturday September 13, 2008 7:30 p.m. Buy Tickets Tuesday September 16, 2008 7:30 p.m. Buy Tickets Saturday September 20, 2008 7:30 p.m. Buy Tickets Saturday September 27, 2008 2:00 p.m. Buy Tickets

SETH BRUNDLE Daniel Okulitch* View Profile VERONICA QUAIFE Ruxandra Donose* View Profile STATHIS BORANS Gary Lehman View Profile POLICE OFFICER/LAB DOCTOR/CHEEVERS Beth Clayton* View Profile POLICE OFFICER/LAB DOCTOR/CHEEVERS (Sept. 13, 16) Louise Callinan View Profile MARKY Jay Hunter Morris View Profile TAWNY PERKINS Ashlyn Rust SCIENTIST #1 Silvia Vasquez View Profile SCIENTIST #2 Nicholas Hartley View Profile SCIENTIST #3 Anna Jablonski View Profile SCIENTIST #4 Matthew Moore View Profile SCIENTIST #5 Andrew Wilkowske View Profile

CONDUCTOR Plácido Domingo View Profile CONDUCTOR (SEP. 13, 20) Israel Gursky View Profile COMPOSER Howard Shore* View Profile LIBRETTIST David Henry Hwang* View Profile DIRECTOR David Cronenberg* View Profile SET DESIGNER Dante Ferretti* View Profile COSTUME DESIGNER Denise Cronenberg* View Profile LIGHTING DESIGNER AJ Weissbard View Profile MAKEUP AND CREATURE DESIGN Stephan L. Dupuis View Profile MAKEUP, CREATURE AND PUPPET FABRICATION Mark Rappaport's Creature Effects, Inc. View Profile ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER Grant Gershon View Profile