2017-18 Live Broadcasts

Oct
6
Sat
2018
MOBY DICK
Oct 6 @ 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM


MOBY DICK
Jake Heggie amd Geme Scheer
Three hours, including one intermission
SUNG IN ENGLISH
LA Opera On Air

“Call it a success… A whale tale with staying power” – Los Angeles Times
“Theatrically stunning… epic in scale. A vibrant, compelling piece of musical theater” – San Francisco Chronicle

Epic in every sense of the word, Moby-Dick comes to Los Angeles after a series of sold out triumphs around the world. Returning as Captain Ahab is the sensational Jay Hunter Morris, whose “fiery brilliance in his resplendent upper range captured both Ahab’s inner strength and demonic possession” (SanDiego.com). Based on Herman Melville’s classic novel, Jake Heggie’s sweeping, gorgeously detailed score has already taken its rightful place as a true contemporary masterpiece.

With astonishing visual effects and a magnificent musical score, one of the very greatest of all American novels comes thrillingly to life on the stage. A fanatical sea captain’s unrelenting obsession for revenge drives his entire crew into the face of death and destruction as they explore the vast and mysterious oceans in search of a monster.

CAST
CAPTAIN AHAB ….. Jay Hunter Morris
GREENHORN ….. Joshua Guerrero
STARBUCK, FIRST MATE ….. Morgan Smith
QUEEQUEG, A HARPOONER ….. Musa Ngqungwana
PIP, CABIN BOY ….. Jacqueline Echols
STUBB, SECOND MATE ….. Malcolm MacKenzie
FLASK, THIRD MATE ….. Matthew O’Neill
CAPTAIN GARDINER ….. Nicholas Brownlee
TASHTEGO, A HARPOONER ….. Sal Malaki
DAGGOO, A HARPOONER ….. Babatunde Akinboboye
NANTUCKET SAILOR ….. Todd Strange
SPANISH SAILOR ….. James Martin Schaefer

COMPOSER ….. Jake Heggie
LIBRETTIST ….. Gene Scheer
CONDUCTOR ….. James Conlon

Nov
8
Fri
2019
AKHNATEN
Nov 8 @ 8:00 PM – 11:55 PM


AKHNATEN:Glass
Kamensek; Larusdottir, Bridges, Costanzo, Blake, Liverman, Bernstein, James
Original Air Date: 11/08/2019

SID.19450535
Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with the striking mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges in her Met debut as his wife, Nefertiti. To match the opera’s hypnotic, ritualistic music, McDermott has created an arresting vision that includes a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers. Karen Kamensek conducts in her Met debut. This production was originally created by English National Opera and LA Opera; In collaboration with Improbable; Production gift of the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund and the Wyncote Foundation, as recommended by Frederick R. Haas and Rafael Gomez; Additional funding from The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. and Oscar Tang Endowment Fund, Dominique Laffont, Andrew J. Martin-Weber, The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund, American Express, and the National Endowment for the Arts