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The Los Angeles Opera can no longer premiere Mason Bates' "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay." The opera will now premiere at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
The Los Angeles Opera scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates’ “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances, and the work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music
The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates' “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances. Bates' composition, based on Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is a co-commission with the Metropolitan Opera and was to have originated at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Oct. 26.
The company's latest staging of Wagner's opera, the mythical tale of the Swan Knight, sharply directed and expertly sung, gets a modern update as it explores themes of war, totalitarianism, and how the effects of lies and deceit can ravage a country leaning toward fascism.
The company's latest staging of Wagner's opera, the mythical tale of the Swan Knight, sharply directed and expertly sung, gets a modern update as it explores themes of war, totalitarianism, and how the effects of lies and deceit can ravage a country leaning toward fascism.