PHOTOS FROM FIGARO (90210) - Mozart’s score with an entirely new English (and Spanglish) libretto - Barnsdall Gallery Theatre - January 18, 2015 - 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027 +Called “brilliant” and “uproariously funny” by the New York Times, ¡Figaro! (90210) highlights the political themes of Mozart’s opera by shifting the action and the language of the libretto to present day Los Angeles. (see review at bottom) +“El jefe, he is bored with his bimbo secretaries…y masajistas tailandesas. Now he wants something different. And his tastes they are moving south of the border. But his hunger, it’s not for enchiladas.” – Susana To order by phone, call the Box Office at 213.972.8001 (Open Monday - Saturday, 10:00am - 6:00pm) or click link below laopera.org/season/1415-Season-at-a-Glance/Figaro90210/?Source=25827 BROADWAY WORLD: LA Operas Figaro Unbound to Include ¡FIGARO! (90210) Along with the three mainstage operas in the Figaro Trilogy, LA Opera will present the world premiere staging of¡Figaro! (90210), to be presented at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre from January 16 through 18. The debate over immigration reform takes center stage in this multi-cultural adaptation of Mozarts The Marriage of Figaro, which recasts the title character as an undocumented worker in a present-day Beverly Hills mansion. Presented under the companys Off Grand banner, dedicated to new and unusual repertoire presented in a wide range of venues, ¡Figaro! (90210) showcases Mozarts score with an entirely new English (and Spanglish) libretto by Vid Guerrerio. Earlier New York concert presentations were hailed by The New York Times as blasphemous, brilliant... realistically contemporary and timelessly comic. I wrote ¡Figaro! (90210) as a great, big love letter to my adopted hometown of Los Angeles, and I could not be happier or more honored to have LA Opera present its world premiere production, said Mr. Guerrerio. Since the first moment of inspiration, which came while walking Hollywood Boulevard with Mozart in my headphones, it has been my dream to bring ¡Figaro! (90210) to life in the amazing city that inspired it. I am looking forward to sharing this multi-cultural update of what many call the most perfect opera ever written with audiences as diverse as the characters it presents on stage. ¡Figaro! (90210) will be directed by Melissa Crespo, with costumes designed byProject Runway season 12 finalist Bradon McDonald. The cast includes José Adán Pérez as Figaro and Maria Elena Altany as Susana, with Craig Colclough and Greta Baldwin as their employers Paul and Roxanne Conti, and Orson Van Gay II as Bernard Curson. Tickets for ¡Figaro! (90210) go on sale to the public at 10:00am on Thursday, November 13. Tickets cost $21 and $37 and can be purchased in person at the LA Opera Box Office (located at 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, 90012), online at LAOpera.org or by calling 213.972.8001. Performances will take place at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, 90027). For disability access, please call213.972.0777 or email [email protected]. To learn more about ¡Figaro! (90210), including casting and ticket information, please visitLAOpera.org/Figaro90210. CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE! broadwayworld/bwwopera/article/LA-Operas-Figaro-Unbound-to-Include-FIGARO-90210-20141112 N.Y. TIMES: Call It ‘The Green Card of Figaro,’ With Thanks to Mozart - By ZACHARY WOOLFE “¡Figaro! (90210),” Morningside Opera’s blasphemous, brilliant new adaptation of “Le Nozze di Figaro,” owes Peter Sellars an even greater debt than it does Mozart and Da Ponte. While he used the original Italian text, “¡Figaro! (90210),” which just finished a short run at the New School for Drama in the West Village, goes several steps further. It retains the opera’s music — even its aria-and-recitative format — but freely riffs on Da Ponte’s libretto in English and Spanish, with slang-filled lyrics that move the action to a Beverly Hills mansion today. In this version, fearlessly written by Vid Guerrerio, Susanna (excuse me, Susana) and Figaro are undocumented Mexican workers employed by the Contis, a real estate magnate and his aging-actress wife. The randy adolescent page Cherubino has become Li’l B-Man, an aspiring rapper pursuing the Contis’ daughter. (“Ma’am, I don’t mean to sound twisty or pervy,” goes one line in his rejiggered “Non so più.” “Damn, I just love when a body’s all curvy.”) The stakes could not be more current, clear or urgent: Firago and Susana face deportation if they rock the boat — if Susana refuses Mr. Conti’s advances. That “¡Figaro! (90210),” seen on Saturday evening, remains uproariously funny under the cloud of such serious matters speaks to Mr. Guerrerio’s ingenious text and the smooth, clever production, adroitly directed on a nearly bare stage by Melissa Crespo. CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE REVIEW! nytimes/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=0
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