jnrbarter.blogg.se

It’s an abbreviated season for LBO two previously announced productions, including former Artistic Director Andreas Mitisek’s staging of The Lighthouse, remain postponed. Desert in premieres in June on and is a co-production with Boston Lyric Opera. Among the cast, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard is set to star. The setting stays the same, with the series filmed in Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs.

Each episode, eight in total, highlights a different composer-screenwriter pair Reid’s music is the first episode, and composers from Vijay Iyer to Nico Muhly to Nathalie Joachim are contributing to the project too. Darrah, along with composer Ellen Reid and playwright Christopher Oscar Peña, oversees desert in, a streaming series that’s part world-premiere opera, part prestige TV. Now for the new work on LBO’s season schedule. LBO has its sights set on a Los Angeles-area amphitheater for the production, and Jenny Wong will conduct the small ensemble, made up of musicians from Wild Up - exact details to be announced next month. Īnother of Sharon’s projects - a double bill of Pierrot lunaire and Kate Soper’s Voices From the Killing Jar - gets the outdoor treatment in August. Darrah had been set to direct the indoor production of Les enfants terribles, and he will direct the outdoor adaptation now, in three performances May 21–23. It’s LBO’s pandemic solution too, plus Sharon handing off his vision to the company’s newly appointed artistic director, James Darrah. Between then and now, Sharon found success with a parking-garage version of Götterdämmerung at Michigan Opera Theatre. Glass’s opera, in a standard indoor setting, had been on LBO’s initial 2021 schedule, curated by Interim Artistic Advisor Yuval Sharon and announced back in May 2020. With a new artistic director at the helm, and live performances looking feasible this spring and summer, the company is ready to realize production plans made last year.įirst up, a drive-in style staging of Phillip Glass’s Les enfants terribles, on the roof of a Long Beach parking garage. Long Beach Opera ’s 2021 season is taking shape.