English Touring Opera are delighted to announce a season of lyric monodramas to tour nationally from October to December. The season features music for solo singer and piano by Argento, Britten, Tippett and Shostakovich with a bold and inventive approach to making opera during social distancing.
Conductor Oliver Zeffman has commissioned the very first opera for a socially distanced world, which is now available to watch exclusively on Apple Music. Eight Songs From Isolation has been written by eight leading composers, specifically for streaming - rather than live performance - and is the first opera written for a time when the performers were unable to meet in person.
Leading freelance musicians unite in Parliament Square to call for targeted support for colleagues in the arts and entertainment sector.
Duo Lewis Murphy (composer) and Laura Attridge (writer) have launched a charitable song project entitled Notes From Isolation. The resulting songs, featuring some of the UK's top singing talent, are being released online between August and October 2020 and can be enjoyed free of charge.
The Royal Opera House is thrilled to announce an exciting, wide-ranging new line-up for its autumn programme. For the first time, extraordinary performances will be accessible online for a global audience through livestreams and for socially distanced live audiences at our home in Covent Garden. In a global first, we present a new opera in hyper-reality, alongside repertory favourites from both artistic companies.
Some of the most famous and outstanding stars from the opera world are to take part in a very special evening from Wexford Festival Opera, including Aigul Akhmetshina, Joseph Calleja, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, Ermonela Jaho, Sergey Romanovsky, and many more.
Following its successful launch in 2019, OperaStreaming streams nine operas on YouTube from the historic opera houses of Emilia-Romagna during the 2020-21 season, with fully-staged productions of Verdi's La traviata in October from Modena and Verdi'sOtello from Bologna in...
‘A brief history of song’ is the subtitle of the 2020 Oxford Lieder Festival (10th-17th October), which will present an ambitious, diverse and imaginative programme of 40 performances and events.
Bampton Classical Opera returns to the Baroque splendour of London’s St John’s Smith Square on November 6 with a concert performance of Gluck’s one-act opera The Crown, the first in the UK since 1987. The performance will also be filmed and available to watch on demand on the Bampton website from 9 November.
While many of us spent lockdown at home taking it a little easier, composer Andrew Synnott wrote an opera.
Owen Wingrave is part of the new Interim Season of 19 brand new events, all free to view online between September and December 2020.
The Arts Council has awarded innovative UK charity Music and Theatre For All (MTFA) a major new grant to develop three ambitious new projects in the wake of Covid 19.
English National Opera (ENO) will reopen the London Coliseum to socially distanced audiences on 6 and 7 November for special performances of Mozart’s Requiem. These will provide audiences with an opportunity to reflect upon and to commemorate the difficulties the nation has faced during the pandemic.
The Royal Opera House is proud to continue its curated #OurHouseToYourHouse programme into the autumn, bringing audiences the best of the ROH through a new series of Friday Premieres and cultural highlights.
After six months of closure, the Royal Opera House is thrilled to be opening its doors to the public as part of Open House London weekend, giving visitors a taste of one of the world’s most famous theatres for free.
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is thrilled to announce re:connect - an eight concert series with live socially distanced audiences at its namesake church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The autumn concerts will take place at 5pm & 7:30pm on two Saturdays per month with guest artists including baritone Roderick Williams, soprano Carolyn Sampson and composer-conductor-pianist Ryan Wigglesworth performing a wide range of repertoire.
Music and poetry unite and collide across centuries, from the Medieval to the Enlightenment to the present day. This year, the Oxford Lieder Festival will present a thrilling and innovative programme comprising more than forty events streamed over eight days.
The English Concert with artistic director Harry Bicket is delighted to announce a series of concerts from 1-15 October 2020. The concerts take place in historic London venues with star soloists and will be performed and streamed live to a paying audience at 7pm GMT on each performance date. The programmes include first-class vocal and instrumental works from the two pillars of the English Baroque, covering different aspects of the repertoire.
Glyndebourne has announced plans for a ‘staycation’ series of socially-distanced indoor performances, starting on 10 October 2020.
The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce two packed evenings of opera and ballet, live from our stage in Covent Garden and available to view wherever you are in the world online.
Los Angeles is often identified as “tinsel town,” a cultural wasteland. The city has long been considered as artistically irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth, especially with the arrival of the Los Angeles Opera in 1984.
Opera was no stranger in LA as it arrived in 1900 with the American premiere of Puccini’s La Bohème. The venue, Hazard’s Pavilion, remained open until it was demolished in 1906. No less than Enrico Caruso starred in a production of Carmen in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Opera is an offshoot to the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera, established in 1948. The LACGO eventually abandoned its production unit, and brought in touring opera companies from major cities, under the direction of the Music Centre Opera Association.
Peter Hemmings was appointed general manager of the Music Centre Opera Association in 1984. One of his duties was to establish a local opera company that would produce its own works that became the Los Angeles Opera.
The renowned Spanish tenor, Plácido Domingo, appeared in the inaugural production of the company starring in Verdi’s Othello and continued on as an artistic consultant. Besides his duties as artistic consultant, performer and conductor with the company, Plácido Domingo, was named the director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003. His contract runs until 2013.
The company engaged prominent guest artists into productions under the direction of Domingo. This immediately attracted the attention of opera aficionados, the public and media. Since its inception, Los Angeles Opera has participated in Education and Community Programs that have offered students, senior citizens, and other audiences the chance to experience the opera. With perseverance and dedication, the Los Angeles Opera is considered to be the “fourth largest opera company in the United States.”
The Los Angeles Opera tends to create innovative productions, its recent Ring cycle being particularly notable.. At its peak, the company ascended to ten productions with 75 total performances during its 2006-07 seasons. However, the recent economic downturn forced the company to scale back. For the 2011-2012 season, they dropped down to six productions with 37 total performances.
The number of productions remains the same for the 2012-2013 season with the focus on the company premiere of an early opera by Verdi, The Two Foscari. Plácido Domingo will be starring with music director James Conlon conducting. Other scheduled productions are Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Puccini’s Tosca, Rossini´s Cinderella and Puccini´s Madame Butterfly.
The 3200-seat Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is home for the Los Angeles Opera. The theater was designed by architect Welton Becket, and opened in 1964. It is the largest performance venue at the Los Angeles Music Center.
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Planning a Visit:
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is located within the Los Angeles Music Center at 135 N. Grand Ave. Paid parking facilities are available at the Music Center.
The venue can also be reached via public transportation.
By DASH bus: Both the “A” and “B” routes have stops at the Los Angeles Music Center. Check times of operation.
By Metro Train: Take the Red Line or the Purple Line to Civic Center (two blocks from Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) or via the Gold Line to Union Station, then DASH “B” line southbound from Union Station to Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
The box office sells tickets for individual performances and in ticket packages. Hours for purchases are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm (8pm on performance days), Sunday matinees: 10am - 6pm.
Find accommodations near Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by visiting LosAngeleshotels.org. The Los Angeles Music Center is within walking distance of hotels located in downtown LA.