LA Opera on Air broadcasts continue on Classical 90.5 at noon this Saturday, August 15, with a performance of The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigiliano, set to a libretto by William M. Hoffman. The performance will run approximately three hours. James Conlon conducts.
Trapped in the spirit world, the ghost of Marie Antoinette bitterly reflects on her final suffering. Her favorite playwright tries to entertain the melancholy queen with the continuing adventures of his beloved characters from The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. But sneaky Figaro refuses to play by the script, breaking free from the opera-within-the-opera in a surprise bid for a better life.
LA Opera proudly presents the first full-scale production in this century of John Corigliano’s grand opera buffa, one of the most acclaimed operas of our time. Extravagantly scaled, gloriously tuneful, supremely touching and yet uproariously entertaining, The Ghosts of Versailles turns history on its head as love attempts to alter the course of destiny.
THE CAST
Marie Antoinette: Patricia Racette
Samira: Patti LuPone
Beaumarchais: Christopher Maltman
Louis XVI: Kristinn Sigmundsson
Figaro: Lucas Meachem
Begearss: Robert Brubaker
Rosina (Countess Almaviva): Guanqun Yu
Susanna: Lucy Schaufer
Count Almaviva: Joshua Guerrero
Cherubino: Renée Rapier
Florestine: Stacey Tappan
Léon: Brenton Ryan
Marquis: Scott Scully
Woman in a Hat: Victoria Livengood
Wilhelm: Joel Sorensen
Suleyman: Pasha Philip Cokorinos
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