{"id":27508,"date":"2021-11-28T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000023546"},"modified":"2021-11-27T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:36:24","slug":"long-beach-opera-artistic-director-nominated-for-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/long-beach-opera-artistic-director-nominated-for-grammy","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Opera artistic director nominated for Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach Opera artistic director James Darrah received a Grammy nomination last week\u2014joining other local performing arts organizations and leaders receiving national award recognition over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Darrah\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/grammys\/news\/2022-grammys-complete-winners-nominees-nominations-list\">nomination<\/a> for Best Opera Recording came for his work as a producer of the Opera Philadelphia performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.operaphila.org\/whats-on\/streaming-2021-2022\/soldier-songs\/\">&#8220;Soldier Songs&#8221;<\/a> by composer David T. Little. Based on interviews with veterans of five wars, the cinematic piece &#8220;boldly examines the impact of trauma, the exploitation of innocence, and the difficulty of expressing war&#8217;s painful truths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LBO is ecstatic and proud to share that our Artistic Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesdarrah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jamesdarrah<\/a>, was nominated for a Grammy\u00ae (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RecordingAcad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RecordingAcad<\/a>)! James\u2019 commitment to bringing opera to new audiences is reflected in this achievement, and we are so happy to celebrate him in this moment! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OperaForANewEra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OperaForANewEra<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PqoVyD8wRc\">pic.twitter.com\/PqoVyD8wRc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Long Beach Opera (@LongBeachOpera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeachOpera\/status\/1463612006414491655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Only the third artistic director in the Long Beach Opera\u2019s 42-season history, Darrah joined the company earlier this year after the Los Angeles-based director, designer and filmmaker\u2019s recent work producing digital classical concerts and film-adaptations of operas made him one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/lbos-new-artistic-director-james-darrah-is-just-the-man-for-this-pandemic-era-of-opera\">most sought-after opera creatives<\/a> in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, composer Anthony Davis\u2019 \u201cThe Central Park Five,\u201d which premiered with the Long Beach Opera in June 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/central-park-five-premiered-by-long-beach-opera-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music\">won the Pulitzer Prize for music<\/a>. Composed by Davis and directed by previous LBO artistic director Andreas Mitisek, the work employed classic opera style as well as jazz and hip-hop to tell the story of New York youths falsely accused of rape.<\/p>\n<p>And earlier this year, six-time Grammy nominee James K. Bass, artistic director of Long Beach Camerata Singers, <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/camerata-singers-james-bass-wins-his-first-grammy\">became a first-time winner<\/a>. Bass won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for his work with the UCLA Chamber Choir, of which he is director, and JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, in a performance of Richard Danielpour\u2019s \u201cThe Passion of Yeshua.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Grammy Awards are scheduled on Jan. 31 at 5 p.m. and will be televised on CBS and Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/central-park-five-premiered-by-long-beach-opera-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Darrah\u2019s nomination for Best Opera Recording came for his work as a producer of the Opera Philadelphia performance of &#8220;Soldier Songs,&#8221; which is based on interviews with veterans of five wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2080],"class_list":["post-27508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-long-beach-opera","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27508"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=27508"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}