LOS ANGELES NEWS
LA OPERA ANNOUNCES 2017/18 SEASON
General Director
Placido Domingo has announced the repertory and artist roster for the
company’s 2017/18 season. It will include six mainstage productions
presented at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and additional performances
presented in four different venues though the company’s Off Grand
initiative. The company will also present two concerts at the Pavilion,
including a gala celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Domingo’s
first performance in L.A.
The mainstage operas are:
CARMEN, Sept. 9-Oct. 1, 2017. The production, new to L.A., will include
Ana Maria Martinez in the lead role, plus Alexander Vinogradov as Escamillo
and Amanda Woodbury as Micaela. James Conlon conducts; Rob Ashford directs
and choreographs.
THE PEARL FISHERS, Oct. 7-28, 2017. Placido Domingo and Grant Gershon
will each conduct performances of this rarely seen opera, directed by
Penny Woolcock. In the cast are Nino Machaidze, Javier Camarena and Alfredo
Daza.
NABUCCO, Oct. 14-Nov. 19, 2017, in a production new to L.A. Domingo sings
the title role of the monumental opera that made Verdi famous. Thaddeus
Strassberger directs a star-studded cast: Liudmyla Monastyrska (in her
LAO debut as Abigaille), Morris Robinson and Mario Chang.
CANDIDE, Jan. 27-Feb 18, 2018, in celebration of the composer Leonard
Bernstein’s 100th birthday. Conlon conducts the production by Francesca
Zambello. The lead singers are Jack Swanson and Erin Morley.
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, March 10-25, 201l8. John Neumeier directs, designs
and choreographs this new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s
influential masterpiece. James Conlon conducts. Dancers from the Joffrey
Ballet are featured, along with singers Maxim Mironov and Lisette Oropesa.
RIGOLETTO, May 12-June 3, 2018. Matthew Aucoin conducts Mark Lamos’s version of the Verdi opera, headlined by two extraordinary Italian baritones, Leo Nucci and Ambroglio Maestra. (Further details at laopera.org)