Satyagraha, by Philip Glass
Curtain Call Photo
Los Angeles Opera
November, 2018
I don't have a photo of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion handy - there's a more photogenic building just across the street from it - so the above curtain call photo, one of the first I ever took, will have to do. It was a great performance, conducted by James Conlon and with an awesome assumption of the role of Gandhi by tenor Sean Panikkar.
Anyway, it's season announcement season, and LA Opera was one of three that announced this past Tuesday, along with Seattle and San Francisco. About all I can say about the main-stage season is "Oy vey." I don't know how much input Domingo Hindoyan had into the season, because when a music director is hired and when the announcement is made aren't necessarily the same thing. Season planning in the U.S. generally starts five years in advance, with casting done by three years before, so....
The Off-Grand series looks good and those are attractive concert. Highlights for me would be Carla Lucero's opera and Sidney Mancasola's Susannah in The Marriage of Figaro. She was terrific as Mélisande in Pelleas in 2023.
I'm going to post the cast, conductor, dates, and director, copy/pasted from email.
Domingo Hindoyan conducts a new production of Carmen
October 17, 25m, 29; November 1m, 4, 7, 2026 (m = matinee)
Composer: Georges Bizet
Librettists: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
World premiere: March 3, 1875 (Opéra-Comique, Paris)
Carmen: Rihab Chaieb
Don José: Joshua Guerrero ° ‡
Micaëla: Kathleen O'Mara ‡
Escamillo: Liam James Karai *
Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan
Director and Scenic Designer: Thaddeus Strassberger
Bernstein's around-the-world romp, Candide
November 21, 29m; December 2, 5, 10, 13m, 2026
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Book: Hugh Wheeler, in a new version by John Caird
Lyrics: Richard Wilbur; additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein
World premiere: December 1, 1956 (Martin Beck Theatre, New York City)
Candide: Duke Kim
Cunegonde: Deanna Breiwick
Old Lady: Patti LuPone
Conductor: Lina González-Granados °
Director: Francesca Zambello
Nabucco, the opera that made Verdi famous
February 27; March 7m, 10, 13, 18, 21m, 2027
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Temistocle Solera
World premiere: March 9, 1842 (Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
Nabucco: Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar *
Abigaille: Angela Meade
Zaccaria: Stephano Park *
Fenena: Meridian Prall
Ismaele: Nathan Bowles ‡
Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan
Director and Scenery Designer: Thaddeus Strassberger
Back by popular demand: Turandot
April 17, 24, 29; May 2m, 5, 9m, 2027
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Librettists: Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni
World premiere: April 25, 1926 (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy)
Turandot: Ewa Płonka *
Calaf: Arsen Soghomonyan *
Liù: Juliana Grigoryan *
Timur: Peixin Chen
Conductor: Diego Matheuz *
Director: Garnett Bruce
Scenic Designer: David Hockney
James Conlon conducts The Marriage of Figaro
May 29; June 6m, 9, 12, 14m, 17, 20m, 2027
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo Da Ponte
World premiere: May 1, 1786 (Burgtheater, Vienna)
Figaro: Michael Sumuel
Susanna: Sydney Mancasola
Count: Lucas Meachem (May 29 - June 14) / Jarrett Ott * (June 17-20)
Countess: Erica Petrocelli ° ‡
Cherubino: Kayleigh Decker *
Dr. Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro *
Marcellina: Hyona Kim
Conductor: James Conlon
Director: James Gray
Scenic Designer: Santo Loquasto
Campy, vampy Halloween fun—Hercules vs. Vampires
October 30, 31, 2026
Composer: Patrick Morganelli
Film Director: Mario Bava
Film premiere: November 16, 1961
Premiere of Morganelli's score: May 14, 2010 (Opera Theater Oregon, Hollywood Theatre, Portland)
Our smash hit from 2015 storms back just in time for Halloween. Muscle-bound heroics, supernatural mayhem, and cinematic excess abound as Reg Park’s Hercules faces off against the iconic Christopher Lee in Mario Bava’s cult fantasy Hercules in the Haunted World. While the deliriously stylish film blazes across the big screen, the LA Opera Orchestra and a fearless cast of singers unleash Patrick Morganelli’s operatic score live, synced to the action. Think sword-and-sandal spectacle, gothic fantasy, and Halloween chaos—all rolled into one gloriously unhinged night at the opera.
Presented at the United Theater on Broadway (929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015)
Les Talens Lyriques: Two Venetians in Naples
March 2, 2027
Conductor/harpsichord/organ: Christophe Rousset
Soprano soloist: Apolline Raï-Westphal *
Soprano soloist: Thaïs Raï-Westphal *
Jamie Barton in Recital
November 15, 2026
Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee in Recital
April 22, 2027
Sondra Radvanovsky in Recital
May 8, 2027
The Old Man and the Sea
May 20, 21, 22, 23m, 2027
Composer: Paola Prestini
Librettist: Royce Vavrek
Conductor: Mila Henry *
Director: Karmina Šilec *
World premiere: November 4, 2023 (ASU Gammage, Tempe, Arizona)
Breathtakingly staged with eight pools of water enhanced with dynamic lighting, costumes and sound, our latest collaboration with the groundbreaking Beth Morrison Projects transforms Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer-winning novella into a rumination on age, loss, nature, and what it means to be beautifully, stubbornly human.
* LA Opera debut
Presented at The Wallis (9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90210)
Community Opera at the Cathedral:
The Three Women of Jerusalem (Las tres mujeres de Jerusalén)
May 1, 2027 (two performances that day)
Composer and Librettist: Carla Lucero
Conductor: Lina González-Granados
Director: Eli Villanueva
World premiere: March 19, 2022 (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles)
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