Sun Oct. 31, 2021 attended LA Opera Tannhäuser with appreciation and recollections. Appreciation because LA Opera staged a second consecutive operatic canon successfully casting African Americans in principal roles. Bass-baritone Morris Robinson also sang in Il Trovatore and the part of Landgrave Hermann in Tannhäuser. Tenor Issachar Savage was Tannhäuser. Los Angeles local bass baritone Patrick Blackwell sang Reinmar Von Zweter.…
Sunday Oct 3, 2021 attended spectacular LA Opera’s IL TROVATORE to witness final performance by Limmie Pulliam (Manrico) before being replaced by Gregory Kunde. While the Met has shattered their 136 year history with Terrence Blanchard’s ‘Fire Shut Up In My Bones’, LA Opera is also making a huge contribution to diversity in opera. I…
LA Opera proudly presents The Anonymous Lover (L’Amant Anonyme), an unjustly neglected 1780 chamber opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint–Georges, a pioneering Black composer who was a contemporary of Mozart. Read more: https://www.laopera.org/performances/updated-2021-season/the-anonymous-lover/