“James Conlon is a maestro
on a mission…because of this
musical archaeologist’s
limitless energy, music once
deemed ‘degenerate’ and banned from performance
is now filling the world’s
concert halls.” —Washington Post
James Conlon continues his exploration of longforgotten
masterpieces by the lost generation of
composers affected by the Holocaust. Featured on
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-dramtist 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.
PRODUCTION DATES
| Saturday |
April 11, 2009 |
7:30 p.m. |
| Saturday |
April 18, 2009 |
2:00 p.m. |
| Thursday |
April 23, 2009 |
7:30 p.m. |
| Sunday |
April 26, 2009 |
2:00 p.m. |
CAST LIST
CREATIVE TEAM
* LA Opera debut.
RUNNING TIME
2 hours and 50 minutes, including one intermission
PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE:
One hour prior to each performance.
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
Sung in German with English Supertitles.
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
Artists and dates subject to change.
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