Aviva Fortunata, Carolyn Sproule Headline Pacific Opera Victoria’s 2019-20 Season

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The Pacific Opera Victoria has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include four opera productions and two premieres. The season kicks off with Puccini’s “Il Trittico” which will be directed by Glynis Leyshon. The opera will feature Aviva Fortunata, Adam Luther, and Todd Thomas. Performance Dates: Oct. 17-27, 2019 Jonathan Dove and April de Angelis’ “Flight” will make its Canadian {…}

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Pacific Opera Project 2018-19 Review: Madama Butterfly

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Twice on Saturday night at the opening of Pacific Opera Project’s “Madam Butterfly” at the Aratani Theatre in LA’s Little Tokyo I thought, “This could be the start of something big.” “Thought One” related to the production; “Thought Two” to a singer. But first, let’s discuss the elephant in the room. Cultural Appropriation? Puccini’s “Madam Butterfly” has excited controversy over {…}

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Pacific Opera Project To Present ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japanese & English

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The Pacific Opera Project is set to present an experimental version of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” The company will present the first-ever true-to-story bilingual “Madama Butterfly” with a new libretto written by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw and Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura. The production will present Puccini’s story as if it actually happened and attempt to answer {…}

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How Pacific Opera Project Brought Video Game Characters Into Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’

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The Pacific Opera Project opened its 2019 season on March 2 with an ingenious production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” set in classic video games from the 1980s. The fairy-tale story that premiered in Vienna in 1791 has lent itself over time to innumerable adaptations, and is often used as a way to attract children to the opera hall. With {…}

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Pacific Opera Project 2018-19 Review: The Magic Flute

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When I interviewed Josh Shaw, Founding Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Project, back in December, I observed that Los Angeles’s Pacific Opera Theater or POP for short, is kind of “guerilla theater.” By that I didn’t mean that POP is experimental in its choice of repertoire but that it takes opera anywhere and – theoretically – everywhere by any means. {…}

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Pacific Opera Project To Present ‘The Magic Flute’

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The Pacific Opera Project is set to present “The Magic Flute.” Only it’s not your ordinary interpretation of the classic opera – no, this is a new 1980s video game inspired production of Mozart’s otherworldly tale! The heroes and villains will be transported to a “land of video games resembling Mario Bros. and Zelda.” The opera will be performed to {…}

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Q & A: Pacific Opera Project’s Artistic Director Josh Shaw On Reaching New Audiences With A ‘Pop’ Aesthetic

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POP, the acronym for Los Angeles’ youthful Pacific Opera Project has a number of meanings. It can stand for Pop-up Theater (Pacific Opera Project’s productions can take place in a variety of venues and even at short notice). It can also mean “popular” (POP makes opera accessible for audiences whose principle interest might simply be an affordable night out). Over {…}

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Pacific Opera Project To Revive Hipster ‘La Bohème’

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On Dec. 7, 2018, the Pacific Opera Project (POP) will close its 2018 season with eight performances of its acclaimed 2012 production of “La Bohème: AKA ‘The Hipsters.’” The production will be headed by two different casts. The first cast will see JJ Lopez (Rodolfo), Maya Rothfuss (Mimi), Aubrey Trujillo-Scarr (Musetta), and Ben Lowe (Marcello) headline the leading roles, while the {…}

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Pacific Opera Projects Announces 2019 Season

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The Pacific Opera Project has announced its 2019 season. The new season, curated by Artistic Director Josh Shaw, will open with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a production set in the classic Nintendo game, Mario Bros. The “super” production transports Papageno, Tamino, and the gang to the land of 90s video games resembling Mario’s Bros. and Zelda with a new English libretto by Josh Shaw and {…}

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Aviva Fortunata, Carolyn Sproule Headline Pacific Opera Victoria’s 2019-20 Season

Pacific Opera Project 2018-19 Review: Madama Butterfly

Pacific Opera Project To Present ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japanese & English

How Pacific Opera Project Brought Video Game Characters Into Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’

Pacific Opera Project 2018-19 Review: The Magic Flute

Pacific Opera Project To Present ‘The Magic Flute’

Q & A: Pacific Opera Project’s Artistic Director Josh Shaw On Reaching New Audiences With A ‘Pop’ Aesthetic

Pacific Opera Project To Revive Hipster ‘La Bohème’

Pacific Opera Projects Announces 2019 Season