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PandoraJax (Priscilla Quin-
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the Esa-Pekka Salonens or
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want.
This was Domingo’s first
public appearance since the
Associated Press reported
that eight singers and one
dancer had accused one of
opera’s greatest, oldest and
most beloved stars of un-
wanted sexual advances. The
accusations, all but one
anonymous, led the Philadel-
phia Orchestra and San
Francisco Opera to immedi-
ately cancel Domingo’s ap-
pearances next month. The
Los Angeles Opera, where
Domingo is general director,
has begun an investigation.
But as in other parts of
Europe, here in this green
Austrian town at the foot of
towering Alps, where people
look askance at the U.S. over
our environmental, econo-
mic, immigration and diplo-
matic policies, the divide now
encompasses both politics
and Plácido. His support ap-
pears to come from his fellow
performers, institutions and
the public. None of Domin-
go’s European engagements
have been canceled. In many
ways his Salzburg reception
was an ironic, over-the-top
statement. Domingo wasn’t
in the best of voice, his tone
raspy at first, although ever
the old trouper, he was pow-
erful and always winning. His
defiance made for great thea-
ter when the Miller, an old
soldier, called on God to
spare his daughter the fate of
being prey to a seducer.
Even so, he was hardly
what made this a terrific per-
formance overall. Were it not
for the #MeToo controversy,
the real news would not be
about the 78-year-old Do-
mingo but what this “Luisa
Miller” says about L.A. Op-
era. And what this year’s ven-
turesome Salzburg Festival
— the world most extrava-
gant and ambitious perform-
ing arts festival — says about
L.A. Opera.
Under different circum-
stances, the news might well
have been the belated
Salzburg debut of James
Conlon, L.A. Opera’s music
director. Conducting his
500th Verdi opera, he had as
much, if not more, to prove as
Domingo.
He didn’t get the full
Salzburg treatment. No stag-
ing, just singers in their tails
and gowns standing and
often awkwardly singing with
minimal enactment. The or-
chestra wasn’t the plush Vi-
enna Philharmonic, which
plays in the pit for most of the
operas, but the less splashy
Mozarteum Orchestra
Salzburg. The cast featured
the fiery Georgian soprano
Nino Machaidze, a regular
with L.A. Opera, and other-
wise maybe an only slightlymore impressive cast than
would be typical in the Doro-
thy Chandler Pavilion.
Yet from first to last, Con-
lon carried the drama for-
ward with extraordinary vig-
or and dramatic pacing. The
Mozarteum sounded spec-
tacular. Machaidze as Luisa
and tenor Piotr Beczala as
her lover, Rodolfo, were com-
manding. Even without stag-
ing — at one point Machaidze
did put her head on Domin-
go’s shoulder as an obvious
sign of affection — the impact
of this performance was
vastly more powerful than
any Verdi in the Dorothy
Chandler. The only thing that
made it so was acoustics.
With the orchestra onstage
and in a hall (nearly as big as
the Chandler) with direct and
immediate sound, everything
changes. Two decades ago,
when the building of Walt Dis-
ney Concert Hall had stalled,
the Los Angeles Philhar-
monic played Stravinsky in a
hall in Paris where every note
made a vivid impression.Members of the orchestra
board and L.A. patrons went
along on the trip and heard
what this ensemble could do
under Salonen. After this, it
was certain that Disney had
to go forward.
Sadly, there was no show
of L.A. Opera-ites here, pre-
sumably because of a need to
distance the company from
Domingo during the investi-
gation. (Read what you will
into Conlon’s continued de-
votion to this performance.)
But there is more to L.A. Op-
era than Domingo. Had the
Music Center brass and L.A.
County supervisors been less
occupied with a new plaza
and not what matters most,
the theaters, maybe a trip to
Salzburg could have done the
trick for the long-delayed
renovation of the Chandler.
In fact, L.A. Opera con-
nections are bookending this
99th edition of the Salzburg
Festival. It began on July 20
with L.A. Opera resident con-
ductor Grant Gershon con-
ducting his Los Angeles Mas-ter Chorale in Peter Sellars’
profoundly spiritual produc-
tion of Orlando di Lasso’s
end-of-time “Lagrime di San
Pietro.” A repeat perform-
ance of “Luisa Miller” on Sun-
day night will be the last per-
formance of the festival.
In between, there have
been such reminders of the
L.A. Opera as Mozart’s
“Idomeneo,” also directed by
Sellars, who worked with L.A.
Opera in the 1990s (though
now is principally connected
with the L.A. Phil).
The most talked-about di-
rector this summer in
Salzburg has been Barrie
Kosky for his wondrously out-
landish production of Offen-
bach’s “Orpheus in the
Underworld.” Kosky opens
the L.A. Opera season next
month with his production of
“La Bohème.”
The revelation of the sum-
mer for many was discovering
George Enescu’s early 20th
century opera, “Oedipé,”
which was designed and di-
rected by Achim Freyer, notseen in L.A. since his fanciful,
historic Wagner “Ring”
production. It just so hap-
pens that Lawrence Foster, a
native Angeleno, was respon-
sible for the modern revival of
“Oedipé” some years ago. It
also just so happens that
Foster conducted the first
performance of L.A. Opera in
1986, Verdi’s “Otello,” starring
one Domingo. At intermis-
sion of “Oedipé,” Freyer told
me he loved L.A., sounding as
though his bags are packed
and he’s waiting for a phone
call.
The lesson in all this is
not complicated. Whatever
housecleaning may wind up
being necessary at L.A. Op-
era, we must not let Domingo
be an all-consuming, burn-
the-house-down distraction.
Instead, we need to set sights
on the way forward. A week in
Salzburg is all it takes to wit-
ness just the kind of great-
ness, night after night, that is
within our reach, whether or
not Domingo remains in the
picture.THE AUDIENCEat the Salzburg Festival begins rising for Plácido Domingo, second from front-left, and the “Luisa Miller” cast Sunday.Marco BorrelliAustria
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