A Trip to the Moon
Sat / Mar 3, 2018 - 8:00PM
An exhilarating new work for children and families takes its inspiration from Georges Méliès’ adaptation of the Jules Verne classic.
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Teddy Abrams, conductor
- Yuval Sharon, director
- Diana Wyenn, associate director and choreographer
- Takeshi Kata, set design
- Christopher Kuhl, lighting designer
- Jason H. Thompson, video design
- Kaitlyn Pietras, video design
- Mark Grey, sound designer
- Ann Closs-Farley, Costume Designer
- Peter Tantsits, Georges Méliès
- Lauren Snouffer, Eoa
- Eve Gigliotti, Queen of the Moon People
- Theo Hoffman, Moon Man
- Clayton Farris, Professor Barbenfouillis
- Todd Strange, Nostradamus
- Kalean Ung, Alcofrisbas
- Jon Lee Keenan, Omega
- James Hayden, Micromegas
- Carolyn Michelle Smith, Parafaragaramus
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
- Los Angeles Children's Chorus
- Anne Tomlinson, Artistic Director
- Hoover Street Elementary School Chorus
- Paula Ludwig Van Houten, Music Director
- Members of YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles)
About this Performance
Inspired by Georges Méliès’ 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, Grawemeyer-winning composer Andrew Norman’s whimsical opera tells the story of a band of bumbling astronomers as they explore the moon, try to fix their broken rocket, and interact with a mysterious race of moon people who are facing a perilous threat of their own. Teddy Abrams also conducts Gustav Holst’s perennially popular suite The Planets, which was based on the characteristics/personalities of the Roman god-named planets of astrology, rather than the solar system orbiters we know from science. The results are colorful, powerful, mysterious, soaring and thoroughly memorable.
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