![]() ![]() ![]() Now that's really starting at the top! It was the Welsh National Opera touring in the eastern provincial capital of Norwich, where I grew up. The first opera I ever saw was Mozart’s Don Giovanni. What was your first experience with opera? ![]() This seemed to go very well and I have since done a couple a couple more events-including a talk on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, following a performance of the Gluck opera. ![]() Maestro Conlon asked if I might talk to a group of special friends, patrons and supporters of the house about the genesis of Strauss’s Salome, since I have studied (and indeed had the pleasure of playing) Oscar Wilde, on whose play the opera is of course based. I spend a fair amount of my time when I can at my Hollywood home and have become a great admirer of LA Opera. Oedipus Rex marks your LA Opera debut, but it isn’t the first time you’ve been inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Meet Stephen Fry, who makes his LA Opera debut as the Narrator of Oedipus Rex. (Not to mention that he's a screenwriter, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, broadcaster, podcaster and film director, too.) And now he's about to become an opera star. Not only is he a beloved actor, he's the author of three books retelling Greek myths from the creation to the aftermath of the Trojan War. ![]()
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