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SAVE THE DATE - Gala on October 2, 2010
Sat, October 2, 2010; 5-9pm
Museum of Latin American Art Sculpture Garden 628 Alamitos ave., Long Beach
Dine and unwind in MOLAA’s beautiful outdoor sculpture garden.
Join us in celebrating LBO’s boundless 2011 season. Bid on exclusive live auction items and enjoy a sneak peek of the new season.
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MEDEA
by Luigi Cherubini
Southern California Premiere
January 29, 2011 / Feb 6, 2011
This heart-wrenching Greek tragedy tells of Medea’s betrayal and merciless revenge. Luigi Cherubini’s innovative 1797 score conveys the sheer horror of Medea’s actions while bringing out the humanity of a woman whose unbearable pain drives her to unspeakable crimes. In true LBO style, this daring production will be presented in an alternative space of unexplored theatricality.
Akhnaten
by Philip Glass
West Coast Premiere
March 19, 2011 / March 27, 2011
This stunning opera follows the rise and fall of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhnaten and his grand vision for a new religious and cultural order. Glass states, “The opera completes the trilogy of portrait operas I began in 1975 with Einstein on the Beach and continued in 1979 with Satyagraha … Einstein - the man of science; Gandhi - the man of politics; Akhnaten - the man of religion. These themes (science, politics, religion) are, to an extent, shared by all three and they inform our ideological and real worlds.” The opera premiered 1984 in Stuttgart, Germany.
Moscow, Cherry Town
by Dimitri Shostakovich
Southern California Premiere
May 15, 2011 / May 18, 2011 / May 22, 2011
This satirical musical comedy of social optimism in a new housing development against a backdrop of housing shortages and bureaucratic corruption premiered in 1959 at the Mayakovsky Operetta Theatre in Moscow.
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
by David Lang
Southern California Premiere
June 15, 2011/ June 18, 2011
Premiered in 2002, the plot is based on a story by the writer Ambrose Bierce. It centers around a slave owner in the pre-civil war American South who walks across his field in bright daylight and disappears in plain view of his family, his neighbors and his slaves, forever altering the relationships among them.
LBOPERA CINEMA
LBO and The Art Theatre are teaming up to bring you this new event! Join fellow opera lovers on select Sunday mornings for a pre-movie lecture with Andreas Mitisek, coffee, mimosas, and opera films you won't see anywhere else.
Il Bacio di Tosca
August 29th, 11am
Art Theatre Long Beach, 2025 EAST 4th Street, Long Beach
Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, a home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca’s Kiss, Swiss director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these wonderful singers (many of whom had significant careers on the opera stage) re-live and re-enact their triumphant roles of the glorious past. Tosca’s Kiss is a touching and often hilarious film on the subject of aging and the power and timeless capacity of music to inspire.
$10 buys you coffee, a lecture, and great company... the movie is free! Get your Sunday morning delight here.
