FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 AND 3, 2011, AT 8 PM; SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2011, AT 2 PM

The world premiere of Shostakovich's Orango is supported by a grant from the Michael J. Connell Foundation

WHAT:

Los Angeles Philharmonic Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale and soloists in the world premiere of the Prologue to Orango, Shostakovich’s unfinished opera, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3, at 8 p.m., as well as Sunday, December 4, at 2 p.m. The satirical opera about a half-man, half-ape, was sketched in 1932, and discovered in 2006, at Moscow’s Glinka Museum by Russian musicologist Olga Digonskaya. At the request of Shostakovich’s widow and Digonskaya, British composer Gerard McBurney developed the orchestration of Orango in 2009.

The confirmed cast includes:



Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Peter Sellars, director

Ben Zamora, lighting designer

Ryan McKinny (The Entertainer), bass-baritone

Jordan Bisch (Voice from the Crowd/Bass), bass

Michael Fabiano (Zoologist), tenor

Eugene Brancoveanu (Orango), baritone

Yulia van Doren (Suzanna), soprano

Timur Bekbosunov (Paul Mâche), tenor

Adriana Manfredi (Renée), contralto

Abdiel Gonzalez (Armand Fleury), baritone

Daniel Chaney (Foreigner 1), tenor

Todd Strange (Foreigner 2), tenor

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Grant Gershon, music director

Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 (composed later that decade, but withheld by the composer until the early 1960s) completes the program.

WHO:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Los Angeles Master Chorale (Grant Gershon, music director)

Soloists as listed above



WHEN:

Friday, December 2, 2011, at 8 PM

Saturday, December 3, 2011, at 8 PM

Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 2 PM



WHERE:

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

TICKETS:

Subscriptions and single tickets for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2011/12 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall are currently available. To purchase, please visit LAPhil.com, the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office or any Ticketmaster outlet. To order by phone with credit card, please call the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office at 323.850.2000, or Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000. For more information, please call 323.850.2000.