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Long Beach Opera has an Orff night

May 10th, 2009, 8:40 am · 4 Comments · posted by Timothy Mangan, music critic

Dean Elzinga as the Peasant in Long Beach Opera's production of "The Clever One."

OPERA REVIEW: The company revives Viktor Ullmann’s “The Emperor of Atlantis” and Carl Orff’s “The Clever One” inside the hull of the Queen Mary. The Orange County Register, May 10, 2009.

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 4 Comments

  • Bill Keiser says:
    May 13, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    Happy to read that Long Beach Opera is back on track as the widely known “Little Opera Company that Can.” I have heard and seen Kaiser von Atlantis and found it to be a work of overwhelming strength and high musical and entertainment values. While Orff is not one of my favorites, it sounds like this one act effort really works. Congratulations to LBO for bringing them to us, and let’s hope this weekend’s performances on board the Queen Mary will be sell-outs. (By the way, I share Tim Mangan’s distaste for acoustically unsound venues. We experienced the same problem at LBO’s Orpheus in the Plunge. But at least this is a Company that brings us lesser seen works and some new insights. Good for LBO.)

  • David S. says:
    May 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    I expect one day Long Beach Opera will do a performance on the tarmac at John Wayne airport… Maybe they already have? :)

  • Box Office mgr says:
    May 15, 2009 at 12:40 am

    Been there and done that. Several years ago Long Beach Opera did a Gala evening with singers in a hanger and out on the taxiway at Long Beach Airport. The opera that year was the American premier of Volo di Notte (Night Flight) by Luigi Dallapicola and it takes place in an Argentine airport of the 1920’s. They left OC venues like JWA to Opera Pacific.

  • Box Office mgr says:
    May 15, 2009 at 12:59 am

    Pardon my “oldtimers,” the opera that year was Rossini’s The Turk In Italy, a memorable Christopher Alden production. The Gala theme was magic carpets both old and new, hence the airport venue.