Diana Damrau and Nicolas Testé to Join Plácido Domingo and Sondra Radvanovsky at L.A. Opera

General Director Plácido Domingo announced today that soprano Diana Damrau and bass-baritone Nicolas Testé will join him and Sondra Radvanovsky for a one-night-only concert on April 1, 2017, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program.

"I am thrilled that Diana and Nicolas, two of the stars in our upcoming production of The Tales of Hoffmann, will join us on this very special evening of music and celebration," said Mr. Domingo. "I cannot wait to perform with them while sharing the stage with members and alumni of our wonderful young artist program, several of whom are winners of Operalia."

The concert will take place at 7:30pm on Saturday, April 1, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012).

Tickets begin at $19. To purchase concert tickets, please contact the LA Opera Box Office at 213.972.8001 or click here.

Among the many musical selections, Mr. Domingo will perform duets from Simon Boccanegra and from Die Fledermaus with Ms. Radvanovsky, as well as the famous duet from The Pearl Fishers with tenor Joshua Guerrero, an alumnus of LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Ms. Radvanovsky will also perform arias from I Vespri Siciliani and Suor Angelica. Ms. Damrau and Mr. Testé will be heard respectively in arias from Lehár's Giuditta and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, before joining for a duet from Don Giovanni. Members and alumni of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program will also perform a variety of beloved arias, duets and ensembles. The LA Opera Orchestra will be conducted by Mr. Domingo and by Grant Gershon, the company's Resident Conductor.

About Plácido Domingo
A vital presence in LA Opera from its birth, Plácido Domingo served as the company's Artistic Consultant (since 1984) and Artistic Director (2001-2003) before he was named Eli and Edythe Broad General Director in 2003. He has been at home on the world's greatest stages for over half a century, with over 750 performances singing and over 100 conducting at the Metropolitan Opera. He has sung 147 roles and conducted more than 600 operatic and symphonic performances, and he is the recipient of 12 Grammy Awards. He is the founder of the international vocal competition Operalia. His next Met engagements include singing in La Traviata, conducting Don Giovanni and singing at a gala concert. Other upcoming appearances include Don Carlo in Vienna; La Traviata in Munich; and Macbeth in Madrid. He began the current season starring in Macbeth at LA Opera, and he will conduct the company's upcoming production of The Tales of Hoffmann.

About Diana Damrau
German soprano Diana Damrau, who will make her LA Opera debut as Antonia and Stella in The Tales of Hoffmann, has been performing on the world's leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans both lyric soprano and coloratura roles including the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Manon (Vienna State Opera, Met) and La Traviata (La Scala, Met, Covent Garden, Paris and Munich) as well as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute (Met, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House). She has been invested as Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera and awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit. Earlier this season, she starred in I Puritani and Roméo et Juliette at the Met, and she performed the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in Milan and Munich.

About Nicolas Testé
French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé, who will perform the roles of all four villains in LA Opera's The Tales of Hoffmann, regularly performs in renowned opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Teatro La Fenice as well as at the Glyndebourne Festival and the Chorégies d'Orange. Earlier this season, he returned to Opéra National de Paris as Abimélech in Samson and Dalila, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Colline in La Bohème and to the Metropolitan Opera as Zuniga in Carmen. He will return to Munich this summer as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor. In the 2015/16 season, he made his debuts at the Bavarian State Opera as Colline and at the San Francisco Opera as Raimondo.

About Sondra Radvanovsky
Sondra Radvanovsky is a globally celebrated artist, and the sincerity and intensity that she brings to the stage as one of the most prominent sopranos of her generation have won her accolades from critics and loyalty from passionate fans. The remarkable range of her repertoire includes the title roles in Rusalka and Lucrezia Borgia and the enormously challenging Norma. She is widely regarded as one of the premiere Verdi sopranos alive today, and her signature role is Leonora in Il Trovatore, the role in which she made her LA Opera debut in 2004. She returned to Los Angeles in 2008 in the title role of Suor Angelica and in 2013 as Tosca, a role she will reprise with the company in April and May 2017. In 2014, LA Opera presented Ms. Radvanovsky in recital along with her longtime colleague, pianist Anthony Manoli.

About LA Opera
In just three decades of existence, LA Opera has become one of America's most exciting and ambitious opera companies. Under the leadership of Plácido Domingo (Eli and Edythe Broad General Director), James Conlon (Richard Seaver Music Director) and Christopher Koelsch (President and CEO), the company is dedicated to staging imaginative new productions, world premiere commissions and inventive stagings of the classics that preserve the foundational works while making them feel fresh and compelling.

In addition to its mainstage performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the company explores unusual repertoire each season through the LA Opera Off Grand initiative, performed in a variety of venues throughout Los Angeles. The company also presents a robust variety of educational programming and innovative community engagement offerings, experienced by more than 135,000 people each season.

About the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
Identifying and encouraging talented young artists with enormous potential is essential to the future of opera. Since its inception, LA Opera has been committed to nurturing a resident ensemble of young singers who would benefit from long-term professional development. The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program is designed to develop the talents of exceptionally gifted young performers to become artists of potentially international stature, whose first loyalty would be to LA Opera. One of the nation's premiere training grounds, the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program enables participants to work full-time on their artistic development during the critical stage between the end of their formal academic or conservatory training and the onset of steady performing careers. Alumni of the program regularly appear with leading opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera and Opera Australia, among many others. Many of them have of also been winners of Operalia, the prestigious international vocal competition founded by Mr. Domingo.

The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program is generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation and Eugene and Marilyn Stein. Special support for young artist stipends is graciously provided by The Lenore and Richard Wayne Young Artist Fellowship. The program was launched in 2006 with funding from the Flora L. Thornton Foundation.

To learn more about the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and its members, click here.

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