The Los Angeles Opera is a world-class opera company in Los Angeles, California. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. Its general director is the Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. Its current music director is conductor Kent Nagano; James Conlon will take over as music director in Fall 2006. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Nickname: City of Angels Motto: Official website: http://www. ... The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation). ... The Los Angeles Music Center (its actual name is the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is a complex of four entertainment venues located on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo (born January 21, 1941) is a famous Spanish opera singer, well-known for a voice that is versatile, strong and possessed of a ringing and clear tone throughout its range. ... See Conductor for other possible uses of the word. ... Kent Nagano is the current music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. ... James Conlon, born 1950 in New York City, is considered one of classical musics pre-eminent conductors. ...

The Los Angeles Opera company, which made its debut in 1986 with a production of Verdi's Otello starring Plácido Domingo, traces its roots back to the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera, which was formed in 1948. It presented staged productions through the 1950s. Shortly after its third production at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the company abandoned its own production projects and recreated itself as the Music Center Opera Association and brought opera from other cities to the Music Center, notably the New York City Opera, which brought productions to Los Angles every fall from 1966 to 1982. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) is to date the most influential composer of the 19th centurys Italian School of Opera. ... Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeares play Othello. ... Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo (born January 21, 1941) is a famous Spanish opera singer, well-known for a voice that is versatile, strong and possessed of a ringing and clear tone throughout its range. ... The New York City Opera (NYCO) is New York Citys second opera company (after the Metropolitan Opera). ...

In 1984, the Music Center Opera Association hired Peter Hemmings and gave him the task of creating a local opera company which would once again present its own productions, and this led to the forming of the Los Angeles Opera. Hemmings stepped down as Los Angeles Opera's General Director in 2000, with Plácido Domingo assuming leadership of the company following season. (In fact, Domingo was already involved in the creation of the company and served as its artistic consultant since 1984.) Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo (born January 21, 1941) is a famous Spanish opera singer, well-known for a voice that is versatile, strong and possessed of a ringing and clear tone throughout its range. ...

The Los Angeles Opera gives between seventy and one hundred performances a year. It offers productions in the standard operatic repertory as well as new and rarely-staged operas. During the 2003-2004 season, the company performed the world premiere of Nicholas and Alexandra, with music composed by Deborah Drattell and a text by Nicholas von Hoffman. The company has also turned to theater and cinema world for directors of its productions. During the 2001-2002 season, it mounted a production of Lohengrin, directed by Austrian actor Maximilian Schell and Duke Bluebeard's Castle/Gianni Schicchi, directed by filmmaker William Friedkin. This page lists famous operas arranged by composer. ... Nicholas von Hoffman is an American journalist and author of German-Russian extraction, descendant of Melchior Hoffman and son of Carl von Hoffman. ... Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... Maximilian Schell (left) in the film Judgment at Nuremberg Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is a Swiss-Austrian actor. ... Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dantes The Divine Comedy. ... William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Jewish-American movie and television director, producer, and writer best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s. ...

External link

• Official website of the Los Angeles Opera