Pre-Show Lecture - one hour before the performance

Learn more about the opera and its composer with Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano, Chair of Music History at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and a LA Opera Connects affiliated scholar. Pre-show talks are complimentary for all ticket holders and held on the second floor of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (Note: there is no pre-show talk on September 17.)

Sung in Italian with English subtitles

The running time is approximately three hours and 15 minutes, including two intermissions.

This production uses lightning and gunshot effects.

A co-production with the Metropolitan Opera

Please note: This production contains adult subject matter and depictions of violence and drug use.

September 17 – October 9, 2022

Production new to Los Angeles

At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion