Bring the person who insists opera is not for them. This is the one that wins the argument, and it wins inside twenty minutes, because nobody warned them it would be funny.
Bernstein wrote something that refuses to sit still in any genre, part opera, part Broadway musical, part gleeful philosophical cartoon, and sent a wide-eyed hero racing across a world absolutely determined to prove this is not the best of all possible worlds. Then he dropped Glitter and Be Gay into the middle of it, a coloratura fireworks display that leaves audiences roaring and justifies the seat on its own.
LA Opera stages it at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion downtown, in the run-up to the holidays. Come to laugh where you expected to be lectured, and spend the second act watching your skeptic's face instead of the stage.
Bring the person who insists opera is not for them. This is the one that wins the argument, and it wins inside twenty minutes, because nobody warned them it would be funny.
Bernstein wrote something that refuses to sit still in any genre, part opera, part Broadway musical, part gleeful philosophical cartoon, and sent a wide-eyed hero racing across a world absolutely determined to prove this is not the best of all possible worlds. Then he dropped Glitter and Be Gay into the middle of it, a coloratura fireworks display that leaves audiences roaring and justifies the seat on its own.
LA Opera stages it at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion downtown, in the run-up to the holidays. Come to laugh where you expected to be lectured, and spend the second act watching your skeptic's face instead of the stage.
Bring the person who insists opera is not for them. This is the one that wins the argument, and it wins inside twenty minutes, because nobody warned them it would be funny.
Bernstein wrote something that refuses to sit still in any genre, part opera, part Broadway musical, part gleeful philosophical cartoon, and sent a wide-eyed hero racing across a world absolutely determined to prove this is not the best of all possible worlds. Then he dropped Glitter and Be Gay into the middle of it, a coloratura fireworks display that leaves audiences roaring and justifies the seat on its own.
LA Opera stages it at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion downtown, in the run-up to the holidays. Come to laugh where you expected to be lectured, and spend the second act watching your skeptic's face instead of the stage.