How to Design an L.A. Opera Production
L.A. Opera's current production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (aka Cinderella) has no glass slippers, no coach that turns into a pumpkin, no evil stepmother and absolutely no bippity boppity boo.
LA Opera The evil stepsisters (Ronnita Nicole Miller, Stacey Tappan) flank their evil father (Alessandro Corbelli)
But it is a fun visual feast, a comic opera in cartoon colors, thanks largely to the work of set and costume designer Joan Guillén. Guillén, who has taught set design in Barcelona for 40 years, makes his L.A. Opera debut with La Cenerentola, which opened to a sold-out house at the Dorothy Chandler on March 23.
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