A couple of others, like Kihun Yoon, who portrays Hercules, and Frederick Ballentine, as Theseus, have more than enough to keep them busy with just one character. Rafael Moras is Telemachus, a City Man, and a Palace Attendant. Several of them take on multiple roles for example, Summer Hassan sings the parts for Dianara, Hesperide, a Peasant Woman, and a City Woman. Molecules”) is conducted by Christopher Allen and features a cast of nine singers, dressed in black, who sit below the screen. Vampires” (I’d have titled it “Hercules vs. We’ve seen comedy troupes ad lib dialogue to motion pictures, and on a somewhat higher cultural plane Philip Glass created operas to be sung and heard while audiences watched films by Jean Cocteau, notable “La Belle et la Bête.” Vampires” premiered locally last night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

And so it came to pass that “Hercules vs. Compared to the usual lavish productions with stellar casts, these works have short runs and are relatively inexpensive.

Morganelli pitched his creation to LA Opera a year or two ago and it was decided that it would fit in with the company’s “LA Opera off Grand” series, in which contemporary and often offbeat new works could be presented under the LA Opera banner. Film, television, and now opera composer Patrick Morganelli

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