John Adams is this year’s music director. (Alain Hanel)Sept. 18-Oct. 10Los Angeles Opera performs “Il Trovatore”Although it’s one of Verdi’s best-known operas, “Il Trovatore” is hardly his most performed. Clearly, Los Angeles Opera hopes to aim straight at an opera-starved audience’s gut with this season opener conducted by the company’s music director, James Conlon, an electrifying Verdian. The orchestra’s vibrant music director, Rafael Payare, is a former L.A. Phil Dudamel Fellow who also will become music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. Ambassador Auditorium will be the place to hear more when Goosby opens the Pasadena Symphony’s season as the soloist in the meaty Brahms Violin Concerto, conducted by Music Director David Lockington.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 23, 2021 16:39 UTC