The LA Opera — not particularly known for Broadway or Hollywood adaptations — is about to put its own ambitious stamp on this masterwork, which was originally conceived by Broadway great Jerome Robbins as a modern-day (1950s) take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.
Interest in the show, piqued by hundreds of Wss banners waving across Los Angeles since June, prompted Lao to add extra performances before anyone had heard a note. The show opens Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where it will run for the next four weekends.
“I wanted to create something that an opera house could give it, that other mediums couldn’t,…
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