LOS ANGELES NEWS
L.A. OPERA’S 2015/2016 SEASON
Placido Domingo, General Director of L.A. Opera, recently announced the company’s 2015/2016 season (its thirtieth, by the way). The September/October opener is a double bill, with Domingo himself starring in Woody Allen’s riotous staging of Puccini’s comic masterpiece GIANNA SCHICCHI (first seen locally in 2008). Domingo will then conduct the Francesco Zeffirelli production of Leoncavallo’s PAGLIACCI, starring Marco Berti and Ana Maria Martinez.
Jake Heggie’s monumental modern opera MOBY-DICK will follow (Oct. 31-Nov. 28), with James Conlon conducting a cast which includes Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab and Joshua Guerrero as Ishmael. MOBY-DICK has been a runaway success, both artistically and commercially, in Dallas, San Francisco, San Diego and Calgary.
Among the other highlights of the new season are NORMA, THE MAGIC FLUTE, MADAME BUTTERFLY and LA BOHEME, the latter with conductor Gustavo Dudamel making his eagerly anticipated LA Opera debut.
Visit laopera.org or call 213-972-8001.