The Escondido opera company is known for its freeze-frame action, where sung recitative is replaced with spoken English explanations between sung numbers
Pacific Lyric Association, which has presented accessible opera productions for all ages in Escondido since 2013, opens its 2022 season this weekend with something familiar and something new.
After Sunday’s performance of the popular operatic tragedy, Pacific Lyric will move the production to the Joan B. Kroc Theatre in San Diego for a second weekend of shows. Gray said PLA’s leadership and board felt it was time the company expanded its audience base beyond Inland North County.“It’s thrilling to bring an iconic opera such as ‘Carmen’ to a brand new audience,” Gray said.
This production will be directed by Gabriel Reoyo Pazos featuring PLA’s unique “freeze frame” staging format, which was developed to make opera more accessible to a wide audience. “Continuing with our signature format, a narrator will help explain to our audience, many of whom are newcomers and youth, what is happening on stage,” Gray said. “We do this instead of supertitles, which we feel is distracting. For this production, our narrator will be the stage director, who will be playing the part of Don Jose in his later years as he looks back on his time with Carmen.”
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