Singer

Throughout the land, word has spread like wildfire—Prince Ramiro is searching for a bride! Despite the plotting of her wicked sisters, Angelina’s kindness and inner beauty win the day. There are no glass slippers in Rossini’s masterful take on Cinderella, just true love at its finest, set to a dazzling score.

EPSG:4326

La Cenerentola

Hillside Club

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Legion of Honor

Directed by LBO’s Artistic Director and visionary James Darrah, George Frideric Handel’s glorious music and surprisingly relevant drama re-emerges as a site specific, cinematically driven, wildy raucous contemporary party. A story of ill-fated romance, long lost familial relationships and conquerors and their captors, LBO’s GIUSTINO will elevate the ambiguities of gender already present in baroque opera and examine how stereotypes can be shattered even in the most traditional stories. Darrah’s breakthrough stylistic hybrid of cinema-theater recontextualizes the salon-like qualities of Handel’s 18th century work to a transitory, temporal space, further challenging the current norms of 21st century classical music consumption.

The libretto and score will be taken apart and reassembled by Darrah, conductor Christopher Rountree, and exciting young composer Shelley Washington, and will be performed with both authentic baroque specialists as well as contemporary musical and dramatic updates. The action of the scenes will move amongst the audience and to different parts of the location, and will be live-filmed to create a movie within an opera playing at all times. And just as spectators did during the time of Handel, the audience will be encouraged to truly revel in the decadence and transcendence of Handel’s glorious music without the trappings of traditional, staid classical music performances.

Giustino

Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)

Long Beach Opera

Pocket Opera

Marlaina Owens

Soprano

Events

Past events

Feb 25 - Mar 10, 2024

La Cenerentola · Pocket Opera

21 - 28 May, 2022

Giustino · Long Beach Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Anastasio in Giustino by Handel

Long Beach Opera

Clorinda in La Cenerentola by Rossini

Pocket Opera

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