CARMEN SEMINAR WITH DR. KRISTI BROWN-MONTESANO

CARMEN SEMINAR WITH DR. KRISTI BROWN-MONTESANO

Few operas captivate, provoke and thrill quite like Georges Bizet’s CARMEN. Whether it is your first time hearing the Habanera or your fiftieth, there is always more to discover beneath the surface of this fiery classic. Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano will take you beyond the castanets with her talk “Saving Carmen from CARMEN.”

Sunday, September 27

11:30 AM – Reception with Light Bites

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM – Presentation

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles.

4th Floor Rehearsal Room

Use Artists Entrance.

Opera League Member Price: $25

Non-member Price: $35.00

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 About our Speaker:

A faculty member at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music from 2003–22, Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano served as Chair of Music History and helped shape the institution’s degree programs. Today, Brown-Montesano is an Lecturer in Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She also enjoys ongoing relationships with many of Southern California’s most distinguished musical organizations, including the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, La Jolla Music Society, and Philharmonic Society of Orange County. You can read her full bio here.