Recovered Voices: A Lost Generation's Long-Forgotten Masterpieces

Los Angeles Opera continues its exploration of music by composers suppressed by the Nazis. This season, Music Director James Conlon's multi-year project Recovered Voices presents two exceptional one-act operas.

Alexander Zemlinsky based The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) on Oscar Wilde's one-act tragedy "The Birthday of the Infanta." Viktor Ullmann's The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochene Krug) is taken from a comedy by the Romantic German poet Heinrich von Kleist. Vivid imagery, supercharged emotions, and rich late-Romantic orchestral textures characterize these operas. You'll hear beguiling echoes of Mahler, Strauss and Wagner, but the overall effect is one of exciting musical discovery.

JUDGE ADAM	James Johnson	View Profile
JUDGE WALTER	Steven Humes	View Profile
LICHT	Bonaventura Bottone	View Profile
FRAU MARTHE RULL	Elizabeth Bishop	View Profile
EVE	Melody Moore	View Profile
RUPRECHT	Richard Cox	View Profile
SERVANT	Ryan McKinny	View Profile
VIET TUMPEL	Jason Stearns	View Profile
FIRST MAID	Rena Harms
SECOND MAID	Lauren McNeese	View Profile

THE DWARF	Rodrick Dixon	View Profile
THE INFANTA	Mary Dunleavy	View Profile
DON ESTOBAN	James Johnson	View Profile
GHITA	Susan B. Anthony	View Profile
FIRST MAID	Melody Moore	View Profile
SECOND MAID	Lauren McNeese	View Profile
THIRD MAID	Elizabeth Bishop	View Profile
FIRST PLAYMATE	Karen Vuong
SECOND PLAYMATE	Rena Harms

CONDUCTOR	James Conlon	View Profile
DIRECTOR	Darko Tresnjak	View Profile
CHOREOGRAPHER	Peggy Hickey	View Profile
SET DESIGNER	Ralph Funicello	View Profile
COSTUME DESIGNER	Linda Cho	View Profile
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER	Grant Gershon	View Profile

RUNNING TIME
2 hours 29 minutes, including one intermission.

PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE [ Listen ]
One hour prior to each performance.
Music Director James Conlon interviewed by Michael Hackett.
Pre-performance lectures are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.

PRODUCTION NOTES:
Company Premiere. The Broken Jug is also a U.S. Premiere.
New Production.
Sung in German with English supertitles.

Artists and dates subject to change.