LA Opera’s New Music Director James Conlon Opens the 2006/07 Season with Back-to-Back Verdi:
September/October 2006
La Traviata and Don Carlo
Starring Renée Fleming, Annalisa Raspagliosi, Dolora Zajick, Salvatore Licitra, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson and Ferruccio Furlanetto What: Music Director James Conlon makes his long-awaited LA Opera debut conducting LA Opera’s opening productions of Verdi’s La Traviata and Don Carlo, which launch the 2006/07 Season the weekend of September 9 and 10 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
La Traviata returns for three performances in a special non-subscription all-star revival of the Company’s production directed by Marta Domingo, previously staged at LA Opera in 1999 and 2000. Internationally acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming stars in the demanding role of the beautiful, doomed Violetta. The electrifying tenor Rolando Villazón returns as Alfredo, the young lover who takes Violetta away into a dream of happiness that cannot last. Renowned Italian baritone Renato Bruson debuts as Giorgio Germont, the father whose devotion leads to a heartbreaking sacrifice.
A new Ian Judge staging of Don Carlo boasts an international cast including tenor Salvatore Licitra in the title role along with Annalisa Raspagliosi, Dolora Zajick, Lado Ataneli, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Eric Halfvarson. One of Verdi’s noblest works, Don Carlo is an enthralling tale of morality and mortality in which some of opera’s most memorable characters come to life against a spectacular backdrop of social revolution, military conflict and an endless flow of rapturous melodies. After losing his fiancée to his father, the king of Spain, the broken-hearted Don Carlo realigns his sympathies and turns against the Spanish Inquisition, knowing full well that his vow to fight for liberty could ultimately cost him his life.
When: La Traviata
Opening Saturday, September 9, at 6:00 PM
September 12 at 7:30 PM
September 17 at 2:00 PM
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Don Carlo
Opening Sunday, September 10, at 4:00 PM
September 13, 20, 24 and 28 at 7:00 PM
September 16 at 2:00 PM; October 1 at 12:30 PM
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Where: The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Music Center, 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Tickets: Tickets to La Traviata, which range from $35 to $500, and tickets to Don Carlo, which range from $30 to $220, are on sale at the Los Angeles Opera Box Office, by phone at (213) 972-8001 or online at www.laopera.com
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All programs, artists and dates are subject to change.
