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World-renowned conductor James Conlon continues the critically lauded, groundbreaking Recovered Voices series with the first-ever production in the Western hemisphere of an opera of Franz Schreker. The New Yorker commented that the work "vacillates between melodies of Mediterranean grace and textures of otherworldy complexity...One scene melts into another with cinematic ease."
This rapturously evocative late-Romantic tragedy features a stellar cast. Anja Kampe, who appeared at LA Opera to critical acclaim in Fidelio and last season in Il Tabarro and as Sieglinde opposite Plácido Domingo in Die Walküre, takes the part of the work's main love interest, Carlotta. Robert Brubaker makes his LA Opera debut as the tortured Alviano. The New York Times justly singled out his performance of that role as "affecting and sympathetic" in the Salzburg Festival performance of Die Gezeichneten. Returning LA Opera favorites are James Johnson (The Dwarf and The Birds), and Martin Gantner (Tannhäuser).



* LA Opera debut.
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With James Conlon One hour prior to each performance.
Pre-performance lectures are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.
Listen by Phone
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.
Phone number: 1-218-936-4700
Access code: 314902#
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RUNNING TIME
3 hours and 42 minutes
PRODUCTION NOTES
American Premiere
UNDERWRITER(S)
New production made possible by major grants from Marilyn Ziering and the Ziering Family Foundation
Special support provided by Thurmond Smithgall and the Lanie and Ethel Foundation
Additional generous support from Herbert Simon Foundation, Louis Colen, Mark Houston Dalzell, Michael and Jane Eisner, Righteous Persons Foundation, Eugene and Marilyn Stein, and the Marc and Eva Stern Foundation
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