FanFaire celebrates LA OPERA

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"Our mandate to bring Los Angeles to the top rung of the international operatic ladder is now a reality." - Placido Domingo on the announcement of LA OPERA's 2008-09 season.
In this video clip LA OPERA General Director PLÁCIDO DOMINGO announces a "season of FIRSTS" in which the youngest of America's top-tier opera companies launches its first RING CYCLE with the staging of the first two operas in RICHARD WAGNER's epic tetralogy - Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. A sure sign of its coming of age, the staging of this first ever RING in Los Angeles will be by the eminent director ACHIM FREYER, with music direction by LA Opera Music Director JAMES CONLON.  DOMINGO and CONLON also talk about the unique challenges of mounting a RING CYCLE production as well as its importance to an opera company and the community it serves. The 2008-09 "Season of Firsts": Il Trittico: (New production)     Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica Gianni Schicchi The Fly (US premiere, LA Opera commission) Madama Butterfly (revival) Carmen (revival) Die Zauberflöte (revival) Das Rheingold (New production) Die Walküre (New production) The Birds (US premiere) La Traviata (revival) RICHARD WAGNER and THE RING CYCLE in FanFaire