HIGHLAND PARK – ColoradoBoulevard.net:
Pacific Opera Project (POP) presents the US premiere production of the rare Vivaldi opera, Ercole su’l Termodonte, almost 300 years from its original premiere, with eight performances at The Highland Park Ebell Club from Friday, January 6, 2023 to Saturday, January 21, 2023.
By News Desk
The Ebell Club will once again be completely transformed, this time redesigned as an 18th-century Baroque opera house, complete with box seating. To view a 3D rendering of the opera house build-out, click here.
Based on the ninth labor of Hercules, where Hercules is tasked with capturing the sword of Antiope, the queen of the Amazons, Ercole su’l Termodonte was only recently discovered in libraries in Munich, Paris, and Turin. The original 1723 opera, written during the Pope’s ban on women in opera, employed seven castrati and one tenor during its premiere in Rome. POP’s production, in the making since 2019, will feature countertenors, mezzos, tenors, and sopranos performing these roles. The period orchestra, also in costume, will be led by conductor Kyle Naig on the harpsichord.
ERCOLE SU’L TERMODONTE (US Premiere) Director/Design - Josh Shaw Conductor - Kyle Naig Costumes - Maggie Green Cast: Logan Webber* - Ercole Janet Todd - Ippolita Meagan Martin - Antiope Michael Skarke* - Alceste Kyle Tingzon* - Teseo Manfred Anaya* - Telemone Véronique Filloux* - Martesia Audrey Yoder - Orizia Pacific Opera Project Friday, January 6, 2023 at 8:00pm Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 7:00pm Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:00pm Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm Friday, January 20, 2023 at 8:00pm Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm Location The Highland Park Ebell Club 131 S. Avenue 57 Los Angeles, CA 90042 Tickets $20-$800 (Both regular seats and boxes are available, box seats come with a bottle of wine). Ticket: pacificoperaproject.com/ercole
Founded in 2011, Los Angeles’s Pacific Opera Project (POP) is dedicated to providing quality opera that is accessible, affordable, and entertaining in order to build a broader audience for the art form. POP’s regularly sold-out performances take place in a wide variety of venues, from outdoors, to small clubs, big amphitheaters, and warehouses.
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