Based on the success from the 2015, the Opera League will once again venture to the Land of Enchantment.
If you were with us last year, you know the Opera Festival Santa Fe is unlike any other culture event.
This year’s festival slate includes masterworks from Puccini, Barber, Strauss, Mozart, and Gounod.
We’ll also be touring the legendary Chimayo sanctuary and weavers. You won’t want to miss that.
Please note this event has already sold out!
Love potions and a furtive tear…
…with Donizetti’s Bel Canto music that will astound you.
Do love potions sold by a doctor of dubious credentials really work? In this delightful comedy of magical concoctions, feigned indifference, mistaken love and a sad tear, two lovers find their passion with Donizetti’s effervescent and charming arias.
Conductor: Leonardo Vordoni
Stage Director: Alan E. Hicks
Cast
Adina: Angela Mannino
Nemorino: Marco Cammarota
Belcore: Luis Orozco
Dr. Dulcamara: Zachary Owen
Giannetta: Rachel Blaustein
Step into the web of politics, policy brutality, betrayal, jealousy and murder in Puccini’s blood-soaked and intense Tosca, the fiery and celebrated singer Floria Tosca has no idea that her life, and that of the man she loves, will irrevocably change at the tainted hands of the treacherous police chief. With passionate arias and soaring, sensuous melodies, Tosca‘s power and raw emotion will leave you breathless.
Cast: Alexia Voulgaridou as Tosca, Gwyn Hughes Jones as Cavaradossi, Greer Grimsley as Scarpia, Kristopher Irmiter as Angelotti / Sciarone, Scott Sikon as Sacristano, Joel Sorensen as Spoletta. Conducted by Massimo Zanetti and directed by Leslie Koenig.
Are you ready for high culture in the high desert?
This August, lucky members of the Opera League will fly away with me to Santa Fe for their annual opera festival. On the menu will be operas by Donizetti, Verdi, Strauss and Mozart.
That’s not all. This year’s fest will include the world premier of Cold Mountain, composed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jennifer Higdon and based on the novel of Charles Frazier.
When we’re not lapping up operas, our group will take sightseeing tours of the amazing city that is Santa Fe. We’ll also get a backstage tour of the the festival’s incomparable outdoor venue.
A special tour just for us to the Shidoni Sculpture gardens where we’ll get to see a molten bronze pouring demonstration. If you never thought you’d see molten bronze up close and personal, you spoke too soon.
As in previous years and due to the great demand, the Opera League is once again gearing up for a trek to San Diego.
This time the opera will be Don Giovanni. Check out the cast: Ildebrando D’Arcangelo in the title role, a role he sang earlier this year at the Salzburg Festival; singing Leporello will be Alex Esposito who, like D’Arcangelo, is making his San Diego debut; first-time artists Myrtò Papatanasiu as Donna Elvira and Paul Appelby as Don Ottavio.
The price for this one-day trip includes a ticket to the opera, bus fare and tip, snacks on the bus, a three-course lunch at the famous Westgate Hotel including tip and a glass of wine, an intermission reception, and a $25 donation to the Opera League.
There are two categories of opera tickets: Cat I – Balcony – $345 or Cat II – Orchestra – $395 (all inclusive).
Reservations should be mailed to Brita Millard, PO Box 492330, Los Angeles, CA 90049. Please make out your check to: Opera League of Los Angeles – Pilot Program.
We are looking forward to you joining us for a fun day.
You probably don’t need a summary of this world-renowned magnum opus, but just in case…
Pompous, lustful and masochistic, Don Giovanni is the ultimate bad boy, but is he more? This intense opera stuns as Giovanni stalks his latest conquest, a beautiful young bride. But he cannot escape his past sins – the daughter of the nobleman who he brutally murdered and a woman he carelessly left at the altar – or the ones who try valiantly to bring him to justice. In a shocking conclusion, we find out that the living are not the only ones who can seek vengeance.
Join me from July 30 – August 13, 2014 for the second Opera League Pilot Program and experience Imperial Highlights in Vienna, Passau and Salzburg, all UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Opera League of Los Angeles – Pilot Program – attends “A Masked Ball” at the San Diego Opera, March 2014
Since three years the Opera League of Los Angeles organizes trips for their members and guests to the San Diego Opera, to attend Opera productions not scheduled at the Los Angeles Opera. Middle of March we attended “A Masked Ball” with a production of 150 performers on stage and what a cast there was: Piotr Beczala, the world famous lyric tenor, Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova, and Stephanie Blythe. So it was no wonder that this Opera League fundraiser event sold out very quickly.
It became already a tradition for Opera League’s Pilot Program to help members to attend 2 special Opera performances a year in beautiful San Diego, with a lunch at the traditional Westgate Hotel. This year it will be Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” and Massenet’s “Don Quixote” with a magnificent cast. Space is limited so please make you reservations soon.
Find here more Information about the Program & Schedule
I am planning visits to the San Diego Opera in February and April 2013 as well as our traditional Europe trip in 2014, visiting Vienna & Salzburg. More information will be online soon.
Do you already know Duernstein, King Richard Lionheart and his trustful Servant “Blondel”?
I am already in Salzburg and confirmed dates and times. Please check the Salzburg schedule for revised and new program points. There will also be some surprises! Wishing you a save trip – hardly can’t wait to greet you in Austria. “Grüß Gott” from Salzburg, Brita
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