The opera world is turning its attention to L.A. with World Opera Forum and Opera America conferences, but they're missing much of the city's best work.
Los Angeles is not, historically, an opera city. Only in 1986 did it finally found a resident company, Music Center Opera, now Los Angeles Opera. Nor do we boast an actual opera house. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is a multipurpose theater. Dorothy Buffum Chandler disliked opera. Yet before we became Tinseltown, we had, count 'em, three major opera houses downtown. At 1st and Main streets, on the site of the Caltrans building, sat the Grand Opera House.
The feisty small company regularly attracts young audiences drawn to the informality of its performances, which might be in a club, garden or cemetery. The director Josh Shaw, who founded POP in 2011, has a flair for comedy and goofy productions. His “Butterfly,” which is staged at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center's Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo, is utterly traditional but nonetheless revisionist and enlightening.
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