Long Beach Opera presented stage premiere of MEDEA

US stage premiere of MEDEA based on the original 1797 release by Luigi Cherubini
Libretto by François Benoit Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry

A site-specific setting and a strong cast a story of passion, anger and revenge starts LBO's composers Luigi Cherubini 2011 season of dramatic Opera MEDEA. LBO is the first opera company in the United States, Luigi Cherubini MEDEA to stage that based on his original version of 1797. Always innovative, the Opera House in the old EXPO furniture warehouse in long beach lead the company. The audience will sit on the lap which anyone with an intimate look at the action. Non - theatrical space and "nowhere to turn" combined seating insured that the audience in the drama will be submerged. Sung and spoken in German with English super titles.

LBO regular, singer and actress Suzan Hanson, will create the title role of Medea in addition to rising tenor Star Ryan MacPherson as Jason. You with a cast featuring the powerful voices and talents be Roberto Gomez, ANI Maldjian Peabody Southwell, Ariel Pisturino and Diana Tash, guarantee an emotionally charged experience transporting this production. MEDEA is directed, designed and conducted by LBO artistic and General Director Andreas Mitisek. The costumes cover Christine Ferro created.

MEDEA opens long beach, CA 90807 at 7: 30 am on 29 January, 2011 the building for the EXPO, 4321 Atlantic Ave,

TICKETS: $ 25-$ 110 tickets can online at www.longbeachopera.org or be purchased by calling the LBO box office 562-432-5934. And student group discounts thru only box office available. First time subscribers receive a 50% discount on season passes.

As evening almost sold out has since went tickets on sale, has added an additional performance on February 5 LBO. 6 February will see the last opportunity to MEDEA. Tickets can be online at www.longbeachopera.org or be purchased by calling the LBO box office 562-432-5934. See "Tickets" at the end of this press release for more details.

About MEDEA: Cherubini due to its pioneering Tragédie lyrique pieces of florianwagner (Medea 431 BC) and Pierre Corneille (1635 Médée). Médée performed in 1797 as an Opéra Comique in Paris, a term for Opera with musical interludes voice dialogs regardless of whether the story intersperse a comedy or a tragedy. The contrast between the Sung and spoken parts provides not only the horror of Medea's deadly crime, but the suffering and pain that revenge drove her devastating acts.

"With its stylistic diversity, its dark grandeur and Majesty as his grand in itself closed musical scenes points Médée far beyond Opera of Cherubini contemporaries." The recognition is expressed for the work of Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner and Brahms because no surprise; Indeed, Brahms went so far to Médée as praising the "highest dramatic art." (Boosey and Hawkes)

The score was later changed and without permission of Cherubini spoken dialogues replaced recitatives. This revised version was later translated into Italian and most modern Opera MEDEA, audience. In 1955 the American premiere of the Italian version was staged at Carnegie Hall and 1958, San Francisco was a touring performance in Los Angeles Opera. Today is the Opera for the performances of the title role of Maria Callas and other famous Sopranos in the 1950?s and early 1960?s of master criminal.

LONG BEACH OPERA
Andreas Mitisek, artistic and General Director 507 Pacific Ave, long beach, CA 90802. Phone 562-432-5934 www.longbeachopera.org.

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