The Los Angeles Opera performs Walter Braunfels' The Birds, a work based on the play The Birds by Greek playwright Aristophanes.

Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon continues the Recovered Voices project--which showcases the works of composers affected by the Holocaust--with this staging of The Birds.

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Cast:

NIGHTINGALE:     Désirée Rancatore

GOOD HOPE:       Brandon Jovanovich

LOYAL FRIEND:    James Johnson

HOOPOE:            Martin Gantner

WREN:                Stacey Tappan

PROMETHEUS:     Brian Mulligan

EAGLE/ZEUS:       Matthew Moore

CONDUCTOR:      James Conlon

DIRECTOR:         Darko Tresnjak

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