ADVISORY/Placido Domingo, New Artistic Director of Los Angeles Opera, to Announce Future Plans at Media Conference on Monday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m.Entertainment Editors & Music Writers ADVISORY...for Monday (Sept. 11) --(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE) WHAT: Placido Domingo, beginning his first season as artistic director of Los Angeles Opera, will announce some of his plans for the 2001-2002 season and beyond. He will also introduce Kent Nagano, principal conductor designate of Los Angeles Opera. WHEN: Monday, Sept. 11, 10 a.m. WHERE: Grand Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 North Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012. FOR INFO: To attend the media conference, call 213/972-7347. Complimentary parking available. BACKGROUND: Los Angeles Opera created a sensation with its debut production of Verdi's Otello, starring Domingo, in October 1986. Now, under the leadership of Domingo in his role of artistic director, Los Angeles Opera's future in the international opera world stands to flourish with new productions, world premieres and spectacular revivals, supported by a continually growing subscriber base. Domingo served as the company's artistic consultant beginning in 1984. In 1995, he was named artistic advisor and principal guest conductor. In this capacity, he advised the company on a wide range of artistic matters and performed regularly with the company as both singer and conductor, having sung his 100th performance with Los Angeles Opera The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California, United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. in May 2000. The 2000-2001 season introduces new productions to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Opera's stage: Verdi's Aida (with the opening night conducted by Domingo), Britten's Peter Grimes Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough. , directed by Academy Award-winning Director John Schlesinger, and Handel's baroque masterpiece Giulio Cesare Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) is an Italian opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym. Performance history It was first performed in London on February 20, 1724. . The season also includes a new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso by Gioacchino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella. Rossini's La Cenerentola was first performed in Rome in 1817. . Herbert Ross' La boheme, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer and Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio (1810). , and Tosca return to Los Angeles with all new casts. The season also includes concerts on September 10, 13 and 15 with Domingo singing his first performances of Wagner in Los Angeles (Act I of Die Walkure and Act II of Parsifal) with the world famous Kirov Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери , and singers Eva Johansson, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Linda Watson and Alan Held. |
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