{"id":77603,"date":"2023-09-17T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=77603"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:49:48","slug":"long-beach-operas-schedule-new-season-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/long-beach-operas-schedule-new-season-2023","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Opera&#8217;s new season features a repertoire by women composers, librettists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an opera company with a longstanding reputation for productions that are creatively innovative, challenging and often staged in <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/long-beach-opera-ventures-into-new-spaces-in-2021-season\/\">unorthodox venues<\/a>, each new season begs the question of just how the Long Beach Opera is going to outdo itself next. And this year, it comes by way of its repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>For Long Beach Opera&#8217;s new season, announced just this week, the 44-year-old opera company will for the first time feature an entire season of operas by female composers and librettists. The female cast includes some celebrated creatives, including returning composer <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/long-beach-opera-reimagines-a-medieval-poem-in-world-premiere-of-romance-of-the-rose\/\">Kate Soper<\/a>, and newly emerging figures in the genre.<\/p>\n<p>The entire season will show six unique productions, including three world premieres with one being an opera for film.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>FULLY STAGED PRODUCTIONS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Feb. 3, 10, 11 &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>&#8220;Isola&#8221;<\/strong>: A musical meditation on identity, mental health and isolation through a series of non-linear vignettes, this new work by poet J. Mae Barizo was written in the Appalachians during the pandemic in 2020. The music, by emerging composer Alyssa Weinberg, promises a colorful and textured uplifting of Barizo&#8217;s work. The doors of the multi-disciplinary gallery Compound, which <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/long-beach-nonprofit-art-exhibit-compound-closes-after-one-year\/\">closed in 2022<\/a>, will open once more for the world premiere in February.<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 1, 8, 9 &#8211; &#8220;Ipsa Dixit&#8221;<\/strong>: A &#8220;philosophy-opera&#8221; by lauded female composer and librettist Kate Soper, the 2016 opera returns to stage to explore the meaning of art through the musings of some of history&#8217;s deepest thinkers including Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles and more. The opera was a finalist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/finalists\/kate-soper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music<\/a> for its musical imagination and creative wit. Originally a show that features just one singer, this year&#8217;s performance will include original choreography from the Martha Graham Dance Company and staged at the Art Theatre of Long Beach.<\/li>\n<li><strong>July 13, 20, 21 &#8211; &#8220;Asunci\u00f3n&#8221;<\/strong>: Latina electro-pop star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/__san_cha__\/?hl=en\">San Cha<\/a> ventures into the world of opera with her debut &#8220;Telenovela opera&#8221; about a flower picker living in a hacienda who finds herself in the midst of a love triangle after she falls in love with a man and a divine apparition. Composed by the pop artist, San Cha will also star in the world premiere at Los Angeles Theater Center in July.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other portion of Long Beach Opera&#8217;s new season offers audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the company&#8217;s creative process through special previews, a workshop and even film set tours of some of the LBO&#8217;s developing works.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>&#8216;LBO ON DISPLAY&#8217;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April 20 &#8211; &#8220;Alcina&#8221;<\/strong>: Powerhouse soprano Tiffany Townsend will perform selections from a new working edition of George Frederic Handel\u2019s &#8220;Alcina&#8221; which LBO plans to present in a future season. Townsend, who will star in the forthcoming work, is also credited with developing the new working edition of the opera.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 28 &#8211; &#8220;The Passion of the Nell&#8221; workshop<\/strong>: Audiences will get a special look into LBO&#8217;s upcoming opera about the true-crime story of Nell Theobald, a young model who suffered a near-fatal lion bite during a commercial BMW car shoot. The piece, still in production, is by LBO composer-in-residence Shelley Washington with libretto by Lisa Teasley.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spring 2024 &#8211; &#8220;Open Air&#8221;<\/strong>: A new operatic film by LBO&#8217;s artistic director James Darrah and co-created by soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee. The new film was inspired by &#8220;Recital I (for Cathy),&#8221; a stage work by Italian composer Luciano Berio who created the piece to showcase his wife&#8217;s mezzo-soprano voice. Brueggergosman-Lee, who is also starring in the new film adaptation, will perform music from the famed stage work as well as a newly composed piece for the film. &#8220;Open Air&#8221; is still in production, but the LBO will be giving audiences limited access to the set of the film to see some of the filming process in real-time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets and season subscriptions for the LBO 2024 season are available for purchase. Visit LBO&#8217;s website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeachopera.org\/2024-season-overview\">here<\/a>, for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new season features six unique productions, including three world premieres with one being an opera for film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":77757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[20],"tags":[15],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[8767],"class_list":["post-77603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-long-beach-opera","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77603","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77603"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77690,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77603\/revisions\/77690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77603"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=77603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=77603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}