"Los
Angeles and the Giants:"
LA Opera's 2007-2008 Season
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LA Opera General Director Plácido Domingo recently announced the details of the Company’s 2007/08 Season at a press conference held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
“If I were to give a title to our 2007/08 Season,” said Mr. Domingo, “it might well be ‘Los Angeles and the Giants.’ Our planned Season boasts the giants of composing with their giant compositions. We will have Mozart with what many regard as his greatest opera, Don Giovanni, and Beethoven with Fidelio, the only opera he ever wrote. We have Wagner with Tristan und Isolde which, to many, is the culmination of his works. We have Verdi with Otello, the opera which is often called the apex of Italian opera, and we have Czech opera’s crowning achievement in Janácek’s Jenufa. We will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Puccini’s birth by presenting not one but three of his operas, the ever beguiling La Bohème, the ever fascinating Tosca and what to me has always been a particular treasure, his rarer La Rondine. To round out the Season we are proud to bring two complete rarities: the Company premiere of Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg [The Dwarf] and the U.S. premiere of Viktor Ullmann’s Der zerbrochene Krug, which translates to ‘The Broken Jug.’ The latter are the first fully-staged productions of the Company’s groundbreaking Recovered Voices project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust."
For
these masterpieces of the season which runs from September 8, 2007 to June
28, 2008 featuring 69 performances of nine productions (one U.S. premiere,
three Company premieres), LA Opera has assembled a remarkable array of today's
top singers:
Fidelio - Anja Kampe and Klaus Florian Vogt in their Company debuts
Jenufa - Karita Mattila in her Company debut a revival of Mozart’s
Don Giovanni - Erwin Schrott
La Bohème - 2006 Operalia winner Maija Kovalevska
Tristan und Isolde - John Treleaven and Linda Watson
Otello - Ian Storey, Cristina Gallardo-Domâs and Mark Delavan
Der Zwerg and Der zerbrochene Krug (double bill) - Mary
Dunleavy, Susan B. Anthony, Rodrick Dixon and James Johnson
Tosca - Adrianne Pieczonka, Neil Shicoff and Juan Pons
La Rondine - Patricia Racette and Marcus Haddock
Additional highlights of the Season include a Plácido Domingo
and Friends Gala on September 9 and a solo recital by the incomparable
bass-baritone Bryn Terfel on April 20.
Mr. Domingo also announced that KUSC FM 91.5 will broadcast 11 of the Company’s main-stage performances from the current 2006/07 Season. The radio broadcasts, which will be distributed nationally by the WFMT Radio Network, are scheduled to start airing beginning May 12, 2007, after the final Metropolitan Opera broadcast of the spring.
Mr. Domingo was joined st the press conference by Music Director James Conlon (who will conduct the double bill and four of the other operas) and LA Opera Chairman and CEO Marc I. Stern and other members of the Board of Directors for the announcement.
Source: LA Opera
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