Even a crowd pleaser like Carmen is absent extra show dates. Small size of the season: For starters, there are only 36 total performances on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion mainstage (six different operas, with six shows each), down from a still-pitiful 38 performances from the current season.Let’s look at the three primary reasons which make it so: I give it a solid “D,” and that’s even when grading on a curve to account for the company’s relatively staid recent history. How to put this more delicately: most everything about the upcoming LA Opera season is sad and disappointing. Like the wind Maria blows the stars around and sets the clouds a-flyin’. So leave it to our good friends at Los Angeles Opera to test my ability to maintain a stiff upper lip and keep from screaming “Really? What the F***?!!!” at my computer when, a couple of weeks ago, they released the details of their 2017/18 season.īecause it blows. I try to find the bright side of things and give people the benefit of the doubt, even when most others wouldn’t dream of it.

Folks, I’m generally an optimistic, positive-thinking kinda guy.

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