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LAist has a pair of tickets for the April 18th complete showing of the opera, Tristan & Isolde at the Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring the LA Phil, Peter Sellers and video artist Bill Viola. This is no regular opera, this something else: "Tristan und Isolde is a tale of a love so overwhelming and intense it transcends mortal bounds. This project represents an exciting opportunity to collaborate with fellow artists Peter Sellars and Esa-Pekka Salonen, to explore and draw fresh inspiration from both the story and the great creative work of Richard Wagner, and to re-tell this medieval myth of timeless significance and universal relevance," Bill Viola says.
Maybe you are familiar with Viola because he had an exhibit at the Getty a few years ago; maybe you are not. In any case, his video art is quite amazing.
This is a long opera and begins at 6:00 p.m. on April 18th with an optional Upbeat Live discussion at 5:00 p.m. Nevertheless, it is going to be amazing and anyone who likes performance art, opera and classical music will love this. Other dates for the project are April 12th - 14th (a three night affairs with one act per night starting at 8 p.m.) and another complete showing on April 24th at 6:00 p.m.
To enter to win, leave a comment with your name, e-mail (not published) and who your favorite classical composer is. Deadline is 12:00 a.m. Wednesday (that's tomorrow night!).
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"I enclose two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
-- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
-- Winston Churchill, in response.
ack! i forgot!
wagner!
xoxo
I'm dying for tickets to T&I. Pick me!
Justin
my favorite composer is rachmaninov
I've been trying to get these tickets for weeks, but they've been sadly sold out!
My favorite composer is Beethoven, but my favorite living composer is Steve Reich.
I want this! and Wagner is certainly my favorite composer, (I own the scores to The Ring (the cost a lot but who cares)
Clementi is my fav
No, pick me! pick me!! May favorite is Debussy, Claire de Lune is my all time favorite!!
i LOVE bill viola. his exhibit at the getty blew my mind! i saw it twice! oh mannnn. anyways my fav classic composer is mozart.
Holst is my favorite classical composer, but Richie W. is my favorite opera composer and I've never seen/heard his work in person. Thanks.
My favorite composer is Arvo Part.
Wow, I am terribly boring compared to this crowd...but I love me some bombastic Mozart, a la Requiem.
My favorite is Debussy...
I'm partial to J.S. Bach.
@ Lisa J: don't worry, i love Tchaikovsky even after music theory.
many thanks for contest - i can't afford opera tickets!!
Franz Liszt! pick me!
@ Lisa J: don't worry i love tchaikovsky - even after music theory.
poor people say thank you.
I'm the second guy who's favorite composer is Arvo Part. Go Arvo!!!
another for tchaikovsky!! you should pick me b/c i'm desperate to see quality entertainment!!
rachmaninov
Mozart.
My favorite is Antonio Vivaldi.
Pick me! Pick me! Pretty please?
Giuseppe Verdi. I lived a block from the concert hall for years but never had a chance to go see a show... that's the type of a tragic irony urban operas are made of.
Rachmaninov's one of my favs.
The ex-dancer in me says Tchaikovsky! I'm dying to see the inside of the Disney Hall.
who to choose...verdi? my boy rachmaninov? playboy tchai-k?
whatever just pass along those tickets please
Shostakovich. Hands down.
My favorite is Gyorgi Ligeti.
My favorite Gyorgy Ligeti
I want free opera tix! And it's Rachmaninoff all the way baby!
now: boulez; then: bach.
Favorite composer: Stravinsky
I always find something new when I listen to Stravinsky; there's a powerful drama and fascinating rhythm there.
it's too hard to pick just one! my (current) favorite by era: medieval - Guillaume de Machaut. renaissance - Gesualdo, baroque - Bach, classical - Beethoven, romantic - Elgar, 20th century - Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, experimental - Partch ...oh, but so many others...
Current favorite is Satie
Bartok
Rimsky-Korsakov, definitely.
Current favorite: Haydn
Current favorite work: Nelson Mass
Mozart
monteverdi
puccini!
Purcell
Stravinsky
Chopin (favorite, but actually considered romantic not classic)
i feel lame, but if i was stuck on an island i would really bring Beethoven.
Vivaldi
Stockhausen, you bitchezzz!
Helicopter String Quartet (1992/93)
for string quartet
4 helicopters with pilots and 4 sound technicians
4 television transmitters, 4 x 3 sound transmitters
auditorium with 4 columns of televisions and 4 columns of loudspeakers
sound projectionist with mixing console
/ moderator (ad lib.)
holst!
i spent my youth in drum corps and marching bands =\
I'll second the Holst. Wagner is megaawesome, though. Also, Satie owns.
My favorite (at the moment) is Debussy, but I reserve the right to change my mind next week. :)
What an amazing offer.
You have a lot of favorites at different times, but when you're listening to Tristan, I think you decide then and there that Wagner is your favorite.
My favorite composer is Leonard Bernstein, Chopin, or Bach, depending on the day.
Wouldn't you simply die without Mahler?
I'm going to have to say Shostakovich
close calls are rachmaninoff, mahler, wagner, tchaikovsky, brahms, kodaly, ligeti
too many tochoose from! so many good ones
ok my comment didn't go through...but im going to say shostakovich
although I really really love Taneyev, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, ligeti, kodaly, brahms, and mahler
favorite composer hands down:
gyorgy ligeti
favorite composer hands down:
gyorgy ligeti
wagner
J.S. Bach, hands down.
J.S. Bach, hands down.
It'd be great to surprise my lover with tickets for a Viola collaboration.
It's difficult to name a favorite; but right now, perhaps Ravel.
It'd be great to surprise my lover with tickets for a Viola collaboration.
It's difficult to name a favorite; but right now, perhaps Ravel.
Verdi, dude!
its all about Verdi.
I'll say Wagner for this contest.
how about frog mechanics? Two tickets, please!
She walks in beauty like the light .....
chopin rocks!!!
tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique
whoo-hoo!
Gustav Mahler is my hero!
Mahler and Rachmaninov are simply divine. It's all about the adagios.
That's why I'd love to experience Wagner live--different energy all together.
so - who won this damn giveaway!!
I haven't been notified - and I'm trying to coordinate.