James Conlon, LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, talks to Brian Lauritzen about Franz Schreker's The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten), which receives its long overdue American premiere this season. "This is a man who wrote eight major operas, three of which were so successful in his time that they could be considered among the most successful operas written in the late teens and twenties, alongside Strauss. The work is not about the political context. It was written as an opera to be played and performed."
James Conlon, LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, speaks with Brian Lauritzen about the fourth and final chapter of the Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung. “From the first chord, you have an apocalyptic sense. You feel the end is impending from the very first note of the beginning of the prologue through the entire opera, the sense that somehow or other there is very little time left.”
James Conlon, LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, talks to Brian Lauritzen about Franz Schreker's The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten), which receives its long overdue American premiere this season. "This is a man who wrote eight major operas, three of which were so successful in his time that they could be considered among the most successful operas written in the late teens and twenties, alongside Strauss. The work is not about the political context. It was written as an opera to be played and performed." 
