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Girls of the golden west seattle3/29/2024 Three of the ten productions in LA Opera’s 2017-8 season are opera from the present decade SF Opera’s season was focused on a world première from John Adams Seattle Opera’s 2018-9 season will feature Mason Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (a no-brainer to have coproducers including Seattle and San Francisco, the two cities at the heart of the tech boom). The first thing to strike one is the proportion of new operas in their repertoire. I spoke to CEO/General Directors from the four big West Coast opera companies – Christopher Koelsch in Los Angeles, Matthew Shilvock in San Francisco, Aidan Lang in Seattle and David Bennett in San Diego – to learn about their audiences and about the way forward for their companies. But there’s more to the US than New York, and there’s more to US opera than the Met: 3,000 miles away on the Pacific coast, younger companies are taking fresh approaches to the medium. When the world thinks about American opera, it thinks first about the behemoth that is the Met: the house that stages 30 operas per year and whose 3,800 seat capacity permits it to bring in the top box-office-busting names from across the opera world.
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