The Fly

by Howard Shore

Plácido Domingo conducts the U.S. premiere of the LA Opera-commissioned opera based on the original George Langelaan short story and on David Cronenberg’s critically acclaimed classic cult film. This marks not only the operatic debut of Cronenberg as director, but also of Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings). The libretto is by the Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). In its metamorphosis into an opera, this dark romantic tragedy presents a Kafkaesque meditation on man’s uneasy relationship with technology. Bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch makes his Company debut as the brilliant researcher Seth Brundle, who begins to mutate into a hybrid of man and fly after one of his experiments in the field of transporting matter goes horribly wrong.