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Sep 23, 2024 · Adding to the confusion is the design of Butterfly’s house. Rather than the simplicity of early twentieth-century Japanese design (the opera was set in 1904 when it premiered at La Scala), the house echoes a 1930’s art deco aesthetic with heavy, dark columns and deco embellishments.
- Jane Rosenberg
Sep 25, 2024 · Los Angeles Opera opens its fall season with a production of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" that sets the story on a 1930s ... 44 ways to celebrate Día de los Muertos in SoCal. Oct. 14, 2024.
- Mark Swed
- Classical Music Critic
- mark.swed@latimes.com
The Los Angeles Opera is set to present a free live simulcast of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” on Sept. 21, 2024 at two outdoor locations. Audiences will get to take in the tragic work at the El Cariso Community Regional Park and Santa Monica Pier. This is the second time that LA Opera does a simulcast at El Cariso Community Regional Park ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Los Angeles Opera’s 2016 sets were simple, elegant like a traditional Japanese painting. This new 2024 staging was first conceived for Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain by Mario Gas as a Hollywood movie-within-an opera. The actions take place on a Burbank soundstage in the 1930’s, where busy stagehands can be seeing making up the cast before ...
Speaks to the Heart at LA Opera. Victoria Looseleaf on September 24, 2024. Karah Son as Cio-Cio-San and Jonathan Tetelman as Pinkerton in LA Opera’s Madame Butterfly | Credit: Cory Weaver. He was ready for his close-up and then some. Jonathan Tetelman, the Chilean American tenor on the fast track to superstardom, opened Los Angeles Opera ’s ...
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Sep 22, 2024 · Just as with last season’s Turandot, LA Opera stands poised to battle any criticisms for presenting an oft-criticized work of the popular canon. Selected to open their 2024/2025 season is Mario ...
