MOZART — THE MAGIC FLUTE
Fresh. Spontaneous. Immediate. Like the silent films that inspired it, this production tells its story primarily through images, and reminds us that THE MAGIC FLUTE is not only an opera to be heard, but a dream to be seen.
PHILIP GLASS — AKHNATEN
AKHNATEN transports us into an ancient, nearly forgotten civilization, where time, space, color, and form operate differently—still mysterious, still elusive. A world we can only imagine, and dream—exactly what art, at its best, allows us to do.
GIUSEPPE VERDI — FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF is a operatic marvel of comic invention where nearly every line of the libretto is some form of false flattery.
RIGOLETTO — MASKS, POWER, AND THE ECHO OF FASCISM
When the curtain rises on “Rigoletto” at LA Opera, the audience is confronted by a surreal and unsettling tableau: around thirty masked men in suits, standing in tight formation, their faces obscured by animal visages and commedia dell’arte grotesques, stare back at
L.A. OPERA — TURANDOT
Everyone knows TURANDOT’s “Nessun Dorma,” one of the best-known tenor arias in opera. When sung by Russell Thomas (Calaf) in the current LA Opera engagement, the audience breaks out with enthusiastic applause, a rare gesture reserved for those truly magical