General Director Plácido Domingo announced updated casting details for LA Opera's production ofHenry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bela Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, two riveting stagings of two disparate operas written more than two centuries apart that come together in a unique double bill for six performances from October 25 through November 15, 2014.
Barrie Kosky, director of last season's wildly popular production ofThe Magic Flute, returns to Los Angeles to stage the U.S. premiere of his production, which received rave reviews and played to sold out houses last year when it premiered at the Frankfurt Opera and was subsequently presented at the Edinburgh Festival. The production will be conducted by Steven Sloane, who made his LA Opera debut in 2006 with Grendel."Last year, when we first encountered Barrie Kosky's incredible interpretation of The Magic Flute, we realized that our audiences would fall in love with his brilliantly innovative vision," said Mr. Domingo. "I asked Christopher Koelsch, LA Opera's President and CEO, to go to the Edinburgh Festival to see Barrie's pairing of these two operas that are so radically different in every way. Christopher agreed that the double bill would be a good fit for our company. I think that our audiences will be fascinated by Barrie's interpretation of these operatic masterpieces in an utterly fresh and interesting new way."Photo Credit: Monika Rittershaus
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