LA Opera will also mark next year's centennial of the birth of Leonard Bernstein by staging "Candide," his English-language operetta based on Voltaire's satire. The main stage will feature a new production of the French version of Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice" directed by leading US choreographer John Neumeier.Ī co-production with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet and Hamburg Ballet, "Orpheus and Eurydice" will star soprano Lisette Oropesa opposite Russian tenor Maxim Mironov. The upcoming season will include "Crossing," a piece by LA Opera's artist-in-residence Matthew Aucoin based on classic American poet Walt Whitman's encounters with wounded Civil War soldiers. The run includes seven performances through Dec.
Eurydice is one of three contemporary works to have premieres in the 202122 season, the greatest number of new operas to premiere in a single Met season since 192829. Opera’s Francesca Zambello on Bernstein’s ‘ingenious’ ‘Candide’ Jan. He was a student at the Los Angeles Ballet Academy in Encino run by his former-ballerina mother and was once. He will return to a baritone role in the upcoming season as he performs the title role of Verdi's "Nabucco," which Domingo sang recently at New York's Metropolitan Opera.īut LA Opera has also focused on less traditional works and productions through its "Off Grand" program that stages performances at sites around the city. Eurydic is a new Met-commissioned opera by Matthew Aucoinat 31, the youngest composer to have a Met premiere since 1938. Before he hit ten, he was on stage with Placido Domingo in LA Opera’s Falstaff and Sampson and Delilah at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Domingo, who remains active at 76 after health scares, is one of the 20th century's most recognized tenors but in recent years has transformed himself into a baritone.
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