Woody Allen to direct Los Angeles opera
‘I have no idea what I am doing,’ says the filmmaker
![]() Manu Fernandez / AP (file) Woody Allen will direct "Gianni Schicchi," part of Puccini's "Il Trittico," as part of the 2008 season. |
LOS ANGELES - Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles?
It will happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera.
The New York-based filmmaker will make his operatic directorial debut with the opening event of the L.A. Opera’s 2008-09 season.
“I have no idea what I am doing,” Allen said in a statement Thursday. “But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.”
Allen is scheduled to direct “Gianni Schicchi,” part of Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” a trio of one-act operas.
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Domingo stated that he had often pursued movie directors to try their hand at opera. It took him four years, his longest such pursuit, to get Allen to say yes.
“Gianni Schicchi,” set in medieval Florence, is Puccini’s only comedy, according to an LA Opera press release.
“To have Woody Allen direct ‘Gianni Schicchi’ is a match made in heaven,” said Friedkin in a statement.
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