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LA Opera & more than 115 arts, educational and cultural
institutions across Los Angeles County
Celebrate the Arts, LA Style
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Ring Festival LA opens on April 15, as LA Opera stages its first performances of Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, staged and directed by theatre artist Achim Freyer, and conducted by James Conlon, LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, in anticipation of presenting the first complete Ring cycles ever seen in Los Angeles, beginning on May 29 and continuing through June 26.
The ten-week celebration of arts and culture brings together more than 115 arts, educational and cultural institutions to celebrate the arts and examine the composer whose epic work Der Ring des Nibelungen forever changed music, opera and theatre and served as a conception point for the festival. The events taking place in the opening week of the festival are examples of the diverse events and presentations that will continue through June. There will be art exhibitions, films, symposia, lectures, musical presentations, classes, theatrical events, performance art and special events all of which celebrate the arts, LA style.
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April 12 - April 18, 2010
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LA Opera: April 11 &17 at 1 pm
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Music Center/Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) is the final chapter of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. LA Opera presents the final opera of Wagner's Ring cycle before presenting the first full Ring cycles in May and June. Götterdämmerung continues on April 17 & 25 at 1 pm and April 21 at 5:30 pm. Tickets: $20-$260, www.laopera.com, (213) 972-8001 or Box Office, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles CA 90012
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Performance dates:
Cycle 1: Das Rheingold (5/29); Die Walküre (5/30); Siegfried (6/3); Götterdämmerung (6/6)
Cycle 2: Das Rheingold (6/8); Die Walküre (6/10); Siegfried (6/13); Götterdämmerung (6/16)
Cycle 3: Das Rheingold (6/18); Die Walküre (6/20); Siegfried (6/23);Götterdämmerung (6/26)
(For Performance times and ticket information visit www.laopera.com)
Contact: Gary Murphy, Director of Communications, LA Opera,
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Los Angeles Conservancy
German Influence on Los Angeles' mid 20th Century Landscape Tours (ongoing)
In the 1930s and '40s, the city became home to some of the greatest German artists, architects, and writers, who sought refuge here during the rise of National Socialism in Europe. The Los Angeles Conservancy will highlight the physical landscape of the city's 20th-century German influence with a self-guided tour of historic sites related to notable figures including Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Bertolt Brecht. Visit these sites online with an easy-to-use Google map or print the map and explore the sites firsthand. Annotated map available at: www.laconservancy.org
Contact: Cindy Olnik,
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or (213) 430-4214
Autry National Center
Opera in the Libraries (online exhibition) April-July 2010
The online exhibition will draw on the collections of the Braun Research Library and Autry Library. Featured will be a rare 1912 recording of French tenor Augustarello Affre recorded in Los Angeles by Charles F. Lummis and the libretto from La Fanciulla del West with music composed by Giacomo Puccini. To view the exhibition, visit www.theautry.org
Contact: Joan Cumming,
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Goethe Institut: April 12 at 7 pm
"Achim Freyer and Matthew Gurewitsch on Götterdämmerung"
Achim Freyer, LA Opera's Ring director/designer, and journalist Matthew Gurewitsch discuss the fourth opera in Wagner's epic, exploring the intricate web of thought and imagery behind LA Opera's historic production.
Contact:
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or (323) 525-3399
LA Opera Speakers Bureau Library Project: April 12, 7 pm
Burbank Central Library--Free Talk: "Ring Cycle LA Opera Style"
The Speakers Bureau, a joint program of the Opera League of Los Angeles and LA Opera, is introducing groups throughout the area to the world of opera. The Speakers Bureau is bringing the magic of the Ring cycle to Los Angeles with talks at public libraries across the region.
Contact: Gary Murphy, Director of Communications, LA Opera,
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or (213) 972-7554
Colburn School: April 12, 8 pm
James Conlon Conducts the Colburn Orchestra
James Conlon, LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, conducts the Colburn Orchestra in a program that includes Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, and works by Zemlinsky and Ullmann.
Seating is first-come, first-served
Contact: Nicole Sutterfield,
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or (213) 621-4786
Geffen Playhouse: April 13-May 23, Tue.-Thu. 8pm, Sat. 3 & 8pm, & Sun. 2 & 7 pm
Nightmare Alley
Step into Nightmare Alley and enter the titillating world of carnies, cons and clairvoyants. With a score as wild as a funhouse and as evocative as a beautiful tightrope walker, this world premiere musical tells the tale of a young carnie couple who tempt the fickle hand of fate. Based on the darkly evocative 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same time, Nightmare Alley is a night at the theater full of special effects, wondrous feats and enough spirit to make believers of us all. But remember, here, things are never as they seem. Directed by Gilbert Cates; music, book and lyrics by Jonathan Brielle. Tickets: $35-$74
Contact: Allison Rawlings, Director of Communications,
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or (310) 966-2412
Hammer Museum: April 13, 2010, 7 pm
"An Evening with Maestro James Conlon"
James Conlon is the Richard Seaver Music Director of LA Opera and a Grammy Award-winning conductor. Conlon has appeared as guest conductor with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and has been a frequent guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for over thirty years.
Contact: Morgan Kroll, Public Relations Associate,
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or (310) 443-7016
LACMA & LA Opera
Opening Celebration for Ring Festival LA & LACMA's exhibition Myths, Legends and Cultural Renewal: Wagner's Sources: April 14, 6:30 pm
A historic night celebrating the arts and culture of Los Angeles kicking-off Ring Festival LA, the ten week celebration where Southern Californians and cultural tourists from around the world will enjoy a wide variety of special exhibitions, performances, symposia and special events all centered on LA Opera's upcoming presentation of Wagner's Ring cycle debuting May 29, 2010. Entertainment will include performances by Double G's Concert 9Net, the Rheinmaidens and Verdi Chorus.
Contact: Kaitlin McIntyre, Burson-Marsteller,
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or (310) 309-6640/ (917) 291-5243
Exhibition: Myths, Legends and Cultural Renewal: Wagner's Sources: Exhibition opens to the public on April 15 and continues through August 16, Mon., Tue. & Thu., Noon-8 pm; Fri., Noon -9 pm; Sat. & Sun. 11 am-8 pm
This exhibition drawn from LACMA's collection explores Germanic myths and legends in various embodiments in the modern era. Myths, legends, and fables form an essential component of cultural renewal. Reinvented and passed on by each generation, they have continued to fascinate artists into the modern era. Integrated into the awakening of German nationalism in the 19th century, these traditions continued to fascinate various authors and artists into the high modernism of the early 20th century.
Contact: Barbara Pflaumer, Associate Vice President and Director of Press Relations,
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or (323) 932-5881
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & USC College of Arts & Sciences Master of Liberal Studies: April 15, 2010, 7:30-9 pm
"From Nietzsche to 'Star Wars': The Wagnerian Power of the Ring"
Through his Ring cycle, Wagner has profoundly influenced the way we think, feel, and imagine the 21st-century world. A panel of experts, including USC Master of Liberal Studies Program faculty, take on how the Ring themes and symbols have permeated 20th-century literature, philosophy, psychology, and even movies and cartoons.
Contact: Susan Kamei, Associate Dean,
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or (213) 740-1375
Norton Simon Museum: April 15-June 30, 2010, Wed.-Mon., 12-6 pm
Walking tour: Form and Emotion in Rodin and Wagner
The museum presents a self-guided tour of the eight sculptures by Auguste Rodin in the Museum's gardens. The tour draws interesting parallels between the two great 19th-century artists: Richard Wagner, the preeminent composer of Romantic music, and Rodin, the first sculptor of the modern age.
Contact: Leslie Denk, Director of Marketing and Communications,
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or (626) 844-6941
Los Angeles Education Partnership: April 16, 2010, 6-9 pm
Student Arts Festival: "Integrating Wagner's Ring Cycle"
The Los Angeles Education Partnership's Humanitas Initiative will bring 250 students from eight high schools together for this arts festival at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The students have engaged in interdisciplinary, arts-integrated lessons on Wagner's Ring cycle. In direct collaboration with artists, the students explore and express contemporary responses to Wagner's music in mediums ranging from filmmaking to fashion to art. Partners in the arts festival initiative include 826LA, Art Center College of Design, LA artlab, youTHink and Table Top Media. The Goethe-Institut has contributed to help support the arts festival initiative. Open to the public.
Contact: Helen Kantor,
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or (213) 622-5237 x 274
University of La Verne: April 21, 2010, 7 pm
"Drama in Wagner's Ring: Music Propels the Action"
The final presentation in the University's Ring-centered Humanities Festival, Dr. Kathleen Lamkin discusses: "Drama in the Ring: Music Propels the Action."
Contact: Charles Bentley, Director of Public Relations,
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or (909) 593-3511 ext. 4688
Villa Aurora: April 17-April 20, 2010 (Sites and times listed below)
Invisible Siegfrieds Marching Sunset Boulevard
A Passage Opera for tarnhelmed wanderers on Sunset Boulevard and sound-contributors from Los Angeles and all over by George Nussbaumer.
Performance Sites & Times: Union Station to Sunset/Hollywood, April 17, 4:45-7:30 pm; Sunset Hollywood to Sunset/Holloway Dr., April 18, 3:30-7:30 pm; Sunset/Holloway Dr. to Sunset/San Diego Freeway, April 19, 3:15- 7:30 pm; and Sunset/San Diego Freeway to Sunset/Pacific Coast Hwy., April 20, 3-7:30 pm
Contact:
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County of Los Angeles Public Library & LA Opera, Rowland Heights Public Library: April 17, 1pm
German Opera Tales
(Presentations continue at Libraries across the region through April 30, Times vary visit www.ringfestivalla.com) A partnership between LA Opera and the County of Los Angeles Public Library, Opera Tales celebrates the power of story and the joy of music. LA Opera's fun, high energy show tours to various libraries for free family performances. The "opera pals," five professional opera singers and a pianist, perform musical moments from such German opera stories as Wagner's Das Rheingold, Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, and Mozart's The A bduction from the Seraglio.
Contact: Gary Murphy, Director of Communications, LA Opera,
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The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage: April 17, 7:30 pm
Under the Radar Series at the Edye Stage: Daedelus Re-Mixes the Ring
Back by overwhelming demand, Daedelus returns with his own interpretation of Wagner's operatic masterpiece. This is a chance to see one of the most respected new voices of laptop electronica in a first-time experiment with special guest video artists from Europe. For those familiar with the music of the Ring, this promises to be a unique, singular experience.
Contact: Natasha Shrieves,
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Sundance Film Festival Presents Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle: April 17, 2010, 7 pm
Hammer Museum
This film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and won the coveted Filmmaker Trophy. In this award-winning documentary acclaimed filmmaker John Else goes back stage at the San Francisco Opera's production of Wagner's Ring cycle to show this rare event from the point of view of union stagehands. Electrifying time-lapse photography of the onstage action is juxtaposed with the epic drama happening behind the scenes as stagehands hoist giant mechanical dragons, move thousand pound sets, catch up on some baseball, knit sweaters and play a fierce game of poker. "Sing Faster" offers a unique and wry perspective on Wagner's outlandish operatic spectacle. Following the screening, the film's director Jon Else will answer audience questions.
Contact: Amy Mc Gee,
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