Los Angeles Opera Plans Return for January 2021
Los Angeles, CA. The LA Opera awaits its cue to return to live performances on stage. Mozart’s Don Giovanni (seen above) is scheduled for January 30th, 2021.
Here’s some information about the show: Superstar bass Ildebrando D’Arcangelo returns as opera’s most notorious playboy in a visually spectacular production that pulls you into the characters’ inner thoughts and shifting emotions. And with James Conlon conducting this Mozart masterpiece and a new production featuring scenery by Es Devlin (star designer of concerts for U2, Kanye West, and Beyoncé).
Mozart’s Don Giovanni is scheduled for January 30th, 2021.
Meanwhile, the LA Opera company has turned to create an array of online content through the LA Opera At Home initiative, which will soon expand to include a series of exciting new Digital Shorts commissions as well as a November 14 stream of The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne, the first known Black classical composer. Since the launch of LA Opera At Home in March, these popular online offerings have accumulated more than 740,000 views to date.
LA Opera is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the greater Los Angeles community. LA Opera’s young artist program is generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation, Eugene and Marilyn Stein, and Richard and Lenore Wayne. Tickets available now or as part of a Spring 2021 subscription package.
To access all of these programs and to learn more about current and future programming, please visit LAOpera.org/AtHome.
To access all of these programs and to learn more about current and future programming, please visit LAOpera.org
About LA Opera At Home:
LA Opera was the first major American opera company to create a weekly schedule of original new online programming to bring opera to audiences during the coronavirus crisis. LA Opera At Home launched on March 17 with the first in a series of live “Living Room Recitals” featuring artists performing in their homes. Other programming highlights include: “Opera Family Time” presentations created specially for families with children to enjoy together; “Learn at Home (Grown-Up Edition)” opportunities for opera lovers of any experience level to dive deeper into the art form; “From the Vault” streams of earlier performances; and “Backstage at LAO” features that take viewers behind the scenes for a look at what it takes to create world-class opera.
About LA Opera
Los Angeles is a city of enormous diversity and creativity, and LA Opera is dedicated to reflecting that vibrancy by redefining what opera can be with thrilling performances, thought-provoking productions and innovative programming. The communal and curative power of opera is needed now more than ever before, especially given the extraordinary challenges of the time. The company is grateful to its supporters for helping to ensure that it has the resources needed to get through this unprecedented period through the LA Opera Relief Fund. Those wanting to support LA Opera can go to LAOpera.org/donate.
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