Long Beach Opera has announced its 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
The season opened with \u201cThe Turn of the Screw\u201d at the UCLA Freud Playhouse. James Darrah directed the opera, and Rakefet Hak conducted.<\/p>\n
Performance Dates:\u00a0Nov. 20 & 21, 2025<\/p>\n
In 2026, the company will present \u201cCrash Out Queens: A Tiffany Townsend Recital\u201d at Altar Society in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Soprano Tiffany Townsend will present a recital that \u201cexplores the psychological landscapes of women in opera who face moments of reckoning \u2013 reframing iconic arias through a modern lens to reveal their complexity and humanity.\u201d The recital also features scenic design by Prairie T. Triuvuth as well as other dance and instrumental collaborators that will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n
Performance Dates:\u00a0Jan. 31 & Feb. 1, 2026<\/p>\n
The company also revealed that it is developing \u201cThe Passion of Neil,\u201d a new opera based on Nell Theobard, the model who was obsessed with Birgit Nilsson. The opera features a libretto by Lisa Teasley and will be workshopped in 2027.<\/p>\n
There will also be a film project, \u201cThe Nubian Word for Flowers,\u201d as well as performances of \u201cSvadba,\u201d and \u201cBERIO: Fragments.\u201d The former is a six-voice a cappella opera by Ana Sokolovic directed by Anderson Nunnelley and the latter is a project in development that explores incomplete and rare works by Berio that explore a soprano\u2019s descent into madness. James Darrah directs, and Christopher Roundtree conducts.<\/p>\n
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