Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles

Arts|Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles

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Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Deaf West Theater are working on an innovative production conceived for both hearing and deaf operagoers.

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A new production of Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” will feature members of the White Hands Choir of Venezuela, which includes deaf and hard of hearing performers.Credit…Michael Tyrone Delaney for The New York Times

By Adam Nagourney

April 13, 2022

LOS ANGELES — DJ Kurs has been the artistic director of the Deaf West Theater, a theater company created here by deaf actors, for the past 10 years. But he had never seen the Los Angeles Philharmonic or been to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, its renowned home, even though he grew up in Southern California.

He will be there this week, though, leading seven actors from Deaf West in an [...]