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07/27/13 – The Stigmatized – 1:00pm

Los Angeles Opera

The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten) by Franz Schreker

Sung in German

stigmatized_lao13The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten, 1918) is the best known work by Franz Schreker, one of the most important and successful opera composers of the early 20th century, who fell into obscurity after the rise of the Nazi regime. The Stigmatized is a rapturously evocative late-Romantic tragedy in which an unlikely love triangle plays out on a paradise pleasure island amidst a group of decadent nobles who are marked by lust and depravity.

Robert Brubaker* as Alviano
Anja Kampe as Carlotta
Martin Gantner as Count Tamare
James Johnson as Duke Adorno
Wolfgang Schöne* as Lodovico Nardi

Conductor: James Conlon
Director: Ian Judge
Projection Designer: Wendall K. Harrington
Costume Designer: Deirdre Clancy
Lighting Designer: Daniel Ordower
Chorus Master: Grant Gershon

* – LA Opera debut

 

photo credits: Robert Millard