LA Met Presents DON GIOVANNI, 6/8

Live opera, "up close and personal," returns for three days to Southern California with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera's (LAMet) June 2014 production of Mozart's brilliant comic opera DON GIOVANNI. The loves, debaucheries, and supernatural punishment of the title character, the rake Don Juan, will come memorably to life at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica on Sunday June 8th at 2:30pm. The production then moves to Good Samaritan Hospital's All Souls Chapel in downtown Los Angeles Saturday June 14th at 7:00pm, and Sunday June 15th at 3:00pm. For tickets and more information visit The LAMet's website at www.losangelesmet.com, or call 310-570-6448. Suggested donation is $25 per ticket in advance, $35 at the door.

Launched in 2008, The Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera is the brainchild of sopranos Ella Lee and Linda Jackson. Together they recognized that there was a vast underserved audience missing out on the glories of grand opera, principally due to the prohibitive ticket prices facing today's operagoers, and by the distances one must often travel to large urban performance centers. So they set out to create an alternative.

Labors of love, their non-profit productions of opera classics feature professional singers and musicians who devote their time and talents mostly free of charge so that ticket prices can fit the entertainment budgets of both opera aficionados and first-timers alike.

Compared to the $132 average ticket price of the Los Angeles Opera, tickets for

The LAMet production of DON GIOVANNI are $25 each, with Group Rates available upon request.

LAMet productions concentrate on the magnificence of the human voice and are presented in intimate settings where no one sits farther from the performer than a softball pitch. DON GIOVANNI will be no exception to that mission. After a recent production one attendee said, "I've heard plenty of operas from the mezzanine and rear orchestras of huge opera houses. It's a whole different thrill to have those voices in your midst. I felt it in my chest-amazing!" At First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica and in the Romanesque All Souls Chapel at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downtown Los Angeles, attendees will find open seating in close proximity to the un-amplified singers and musicians.

Supertitles (the opera's lyrics) will be projected in English at all performances.

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica is at 1220 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Good Samaritan Hospital's All Souls Chapel is at 637 S. Lucas Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90017.

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