Fire and Blue Sky at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center

The past doesn't control us. But it never leaves us. Tenor Russell Thomas, LA Opera's Artist in Residence, premieres a major new commission: a deeply personal, evening-length concert work created expressly for him by the Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Thompson with an original libretto by the celebrated poet Imani Tolliver. With Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados leading the LA Opera Orchestra, Fire and Blue Sky traces the origin story of an artist, a probing reflection on painful memories, deeply embedded, that reverberate into the present day. The concert will also feature an orchestral suite from Joel Thompson's opera, The Snowy Day.