The Fairies: Wagner's First Completed Opera at Pasadena Playhouse
The Pasadena Playhouse (39 S. El Molino Ave. Pasadena, CA 91101)
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The last date listed for Die Feen (The Fairies) was Saturday June 19, 2010 / 7:30pm.
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8 Goldstar Member Reviews
Mark Marcus
This production of "Die Feen" presented by the fledgling Lyric Opera of Los Angeles (LOLA) in conjunction with the Ring Festival L.A., gave us an incredibly rare opportunity to attend a live performance of Wagner's first opera. We were at the final performance on June 19th. In the central role of Ada, soprano VanNessa Hulme was the standout. Conductor Robert Sage did a fine job leading a small chamber orchestra of just 31 musicians, with stage direction by Aleta Braxton in this little jewel from Wagner. According to the program notes, this was an all volunteer production, a real labor of love. It was a pleasure to be in the audience to see "Die Feen" become part of the great history of the Pasadena Playhouse.Written on Jun 26 2010
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lindadq
The cast was very talented and the female lead was fantastic. More work with the subtitles was necessary-words were cut off and it jumped about.Written on Jun 14 2010
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James King
It was an enjoyable evening. The Pasadena Playhouse is a superb venue. All of the female performers were good and the lead was particularly good. The orchestra was competent but the male performers generally were not quite as good as the rest of the performance. Staging was not elaborate but was more than adquate for a group without extensive financing.Written on Jun 22 2010
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Theatre Lover
Wonderful seats! Enjoyed the performance, although it was a long 3 acts. Very creative.Written on Jun 22 2010
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Lyric Opera of Los Angeles, an official partner with LA Opera in the Ring Festival presents Richard Wagner's first completed opera (at the age of 20), Die Feen (The Fairies) at the Pasadena Playhouse.
This production is a US staged premiere as the opera has only had one concert performance here in the early 1980’s by New York City Opera. It’s a unique opportunity to see and hear an opera that is rarely done outside of Europe, and even there infrequently
With some of the finest young singers and orchestra players in the area, audiences are sure to enjoy this early Wagner work which has primary musical influences from the composers of the day – especially Weber, Heinrich Marschner, and even Beethoven.
In The Fairies, Ada, half fairy, half mortal, marries Arindal, King of Tramond, who is told not to ask her name. He asks, however, and her magic kingdom disappears. To rejoin him, she must try him in a series of tests in which he is unsuccessful, leaving her turned to stone for a hundred years. Like Orpheus he brings her to life from the underworld by the power of music and lives with her thereafter in fairyland.
Wagner's first opera follows the tradition of German romantic magic opera, established by Weber and Marschner, successfully enough, although this was not a path that he was to pursue. The work was first performed in Munich five years after his death.
About the Ticket Supplier: Lyric Opera of Los Angeles
Lyric Opera of Los Angeles was founded in 2002 by Laura Sage in order to bring lost operatic gems back to the stage. After an initial production of Mozart's "die Entfürung aus dem Serail" (which hadn't been being performed very often in the area at the time), LOLA put on the West Coast premiere staged production of Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr". The production met with great success and marked the beginning of a series of premiere production put on by the company.