Long Beach Opera Season to Open Nov. 1

Works by Bizet, Schoenberg, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Monteverdi will be performed both in Center Theater and Terrace Theater at the Long Beach Convention Center on the 1992-93 Long Beach Opera season.

A new production of Bizet’s “Carmen,” sung in English, opens the season Nov. 1 in Center Theater, staged by Brian Kulick and designed by Mark Wendland, who collaborated on the company’s 1991 production of “Pelleas and Melisande.”

A double bill of oratorios, Schoenberg’s “Jakobsleiter” and Zimmermann’s “Ecclesiastic Action,” sung in German, will be performed in Terrace Theater, Feb. 11-14, as part of the festival “Aufbrechen Amerika,” sponsored by the City of Bochum, Germany. Werner Schroeter will be stage director, and Eberhard Kloke the conductor, leading the Bochum Symphony Orchestra.

Monteverdi’s “Orfeo,” sung in English, will close Long Beach Opera’s 15th season, April 4-10, 1993, in Center Theater. Steven Sloan, who led the company’s recent “Simon Boccanegra,” as well as its 1990 “Rape of Lucretia,” will return as conductor of the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra; the stage director will be Christopher Alden.

Information: (310) 596-5556.