(Photo by Chad Batka) Eleven more women have come forward to accuse Plácido Domingo of sexual harassment, per the Associated Press. Among these is Angela Turner Wilson, who related a story about the 1999-2000 season when Domingo came over to her and put his hand down her bra straps and “groped” her. The new story by the AP also notes {…}
The LA Opera announced the lawyer who will investigate the sexual harassment case against Plácido Domingo. The company said it would immediately open a “thorough and independent investigation” and hired Debra Wong Yang from the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to lead the investigation. The company however did not respond questions about how the investigation would be carried out {…}
The LA Opera is not disclosing any basic information on the investigation it will be conducting about Placido Domingo’s sexual harassment claims at the moment. The company said that it would not say “who would be conducting the investigation, how it would be carried out, when it would start or its expected duration.” However, a spokeswoman said Friday that “LA {…}
(Credit: Taso Papadakis) A diverse group of 73 Los Angeles kids and teens, aged 9 – 17, recently presented “Then I Stood Up: A Civil Rights Cycle.” The two performances held on Aug. 3, 2019 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion marked the culmination of this year’s LA Opera Camp, a three-week intensive but fun-filled program designed to foster friendships, explore social justice {…}
The Los Angeles Opera has announced LA Opera Connects, the new name for its education and community engagement activities. The new name was revealed by Plácido Domingo, highlighting the company’s 29 different programs that reach out to more than 135,000 people. All the programs are broken up into four basic categories including Opera for All, Get on Stage, Classroom Integration, {…}
You won’t see many canonical works in this weekend’s recommendations. But every opera listed will provide audience members with unique and fascinating experiences. Here’s our recommendation for an opera-filled Mother’s Day weekend. The Handmaid’s Tale – Boston Lyric Opera On Friday and Sunday, the Boston Lyric Opera will present “The Handmaid’s Tale” two more times as it brings its 2018-19 {…}
Plácido Domingo, General Director of LA Opera, has chosen six singers to join LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program for the 2019-20 season. The six artists chosen for the program are tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro, soprano Sylvia D’Eramo, mezzo-soprano Gabriela Flores, soprano Alaysha Fox, tenor Robert Stahley, and soprano Tiffany Townsend. “For many years, I have been passionate about discovering and {…}
(Photo Credit: Cory Weaver) Long before I arrived in Los Angeles, I read Edward Rothstein’s “New York Times” review of the LA Opera’s previous production in 1994 of Manuel Penella’s “El Gato Montés” and what he said there about LA Opera’s mounting of Zarzuelas as a “conscious effort to attract Hispanic audiences to the opera house.” Curious, I bought CDs {…}
The LA Opera has announced that star soprano Susan Graham will be extending her contract with the company as a mentor of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists. Per a press release, the contract will be extended through the 2020-21 season. Graham has worked as Artistic Advisor with the company since 2017 and is in residence with the LA Opera for at {…}
Dove Cameron, a musical theatre star and film/TV actress, will star as Clara Johnson in LA Opera’s production of Adam Guettel’s Broadway musical “The Light at the Piazza.” She will perform alongside Renée Fleming, who has been cast as Clara’s mother Margaret. The two stars will take the stage together for the first time in June at London’s Royal Festival Hall, before the production travels to {…}
Even before the curtain rose on this Los Angeles Opera production of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” which I saw on March 7th, 2019, I was excited by what I had read in the program booklet. LA Opera Music Director James Conlon’s article, “Clemency, Forgiveness and Love” with its emphasis on Titus’s closing message that “I know everything, absolve everyone {…}
