Name: The Feast
Start: 2023-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Noguchi Gardens

Organization

Conductor

Andrew McIntosh

Stage director

James Darrah

Costume designer

Molly Irelan

Lighting designer

Pablo Santiago

Choreographer

Janet Eilber

Singer

Jakub Józef Orliński

Alexander the Great

Anna Schubert

Cleopatra

Carlis Shane Clark

Agamemnon

Xin Ying

Clytemnestra

Lloyd Knight

Medea

Leslie Andrea Williams

Theseus

Anne Souder

Cassandra of Troy

Long Beach Opera

Ballet

Martha Graham Company

Orchestra

Tesserae Baroque

The Feast

Costa Mesa

United States

Noguchi Gardens

The Feast: Poster

Public

Opera Gala

Approved

In its first collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company, LBO presents THE FEAST, a dance ritual and baroque banquet. James Darrah re-invents the baroque pastiche using vocal and instrumental music from several of Handel’s operas, including the seldom-heard Alessandro, to create a literal and figurative feast. Following an introduction of cocktails and activated performance spaces, audiences will be led by the Graham Company to a beautiful space where they will continue drinking and feasting to live music and dance performances that envelop and disrupt the banquet’s proceedings in surprising ways. 

THE FEAST features superstar Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orlinski, who makes his Southern California staged debut in this evening of Handel’s music presented with early music chamber orchestra accompaniment. Orlinski will sing and even dance with the Martha Graham Dance Company for the first time. The Graham Company will be working to activate a unique location with choreography that pays homage to Graham’s own deep sense of Greek ritual, mythology, and the sacred power of dance and early music to enchant and enthrall.

Food and drink are included in the banquet-level ticket-holder experience. Concert-only tickets are also available

English

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Cast

Crew

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