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.

SETH BRUNDLE	Daniel Okulitch*	View Profile
VERONICA QUAIFE	Ruxandra Donose*	View Profile
STATHIS BORANS	Gary Lehman	View Profile
OFFICER/MEDICAL ANALYST/CHEEVERS	Beth Clayton*	View Profile
MARKY	Jay Hunter Morris	View Profile
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
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER	Grant Gershon	View Profile
MAKEUP AND CREATURE DESIGN	Stephan L. Dupuis	View Profile
MAKEUP, CREATURE AND PUPPET FABRICATION	Mark Rappaport's Creature Effects, Inc.	View Profile

* LA Opera debut.

RUNNING TIME
2 hours and 40 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:
An LA Opera commission
U.S. Premiere / New Production
Sung in English.

New production made possible by a major grant from
THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

With additional support from THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION
and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Artists and dates subject to change.