Some of the ensembles he had performed with include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, the Long Beach Opera, the New West Symphony.
Michael Milenski, formerly of the San Francisco Opera and San Jose Opera, was tapped to mount the first production in March, 1979, Verdi’s La Traviata starring Metropolitan Opera stars Benita Valente and Louis Quilico.
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Significant LBO productions during Milenski's tenure included Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, Richard Strauss’ Elektra (which was televised in Germany), Janáček's From the House of the Dead, The Beaumarchais Trilogy and the complete operas of Claudio Monteverdi.
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Several American premieres have been presented on the LBO stage, including King Roger by Karol Szymanowski, Mozart’s, Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter, Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Turning, I Saw Great Injustice and John Cage’s Europeras 3&4 (issued in a commercial recording).
opera | Long Island | Metropolitan Opera | Royal Opera House | The Beach Boys | Long Beach, California | Sydney Opera House | Palm Beach, Florida | Vienna State Opera | Miami Beach, Florida | San Francisco Opera | New York City Opera | Palm Beach | The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) | Miami Beach | The Threepenny Opera | Opera | Daytona Beach, Florida | Long Beach | beach volleyball | Doctors (soap opera) | Falstaff (opera) | Paris Opera | Huey Long | West Palm Beach, Florida | Virginia Beach, Virginia | Royal Swedish Opera | Opera Australia | Virginia Beach | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Recently, he appeared in San Francisco as the title (and sole) character in Erling Wold's Mordake, and as the Captain in the new chamber-orchestra version of Alban Berg's Wozzeck and for Long Beach Opera, reprising the role of Mao Tse-Tung in Nixon in China.