It was also turned in an opera, Il Postino, by Daniel Catán, with Plácido Domingo portraying Pablo Neruda (premiered at the Los Angeles Opera, 2010).
From 1992 he has also been the German diction coach of the Los Angeles Opera, helping to give performers a better understanding of the relationship between text and music in German operas.
In spring 2010 Die Gezeichneten had its American premiere at the Los Angeles Opera, while Der ferne Klang enjoyed its first staged American performance at the Bard Summerscape Festival.
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.
Protopapas has also been an Assistant Conductor for the Los Angeles Opera and has served as Assistant Conductor at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Santa Fe Opera.
His opera Die Vögel, based on the play The Birds by Aristophanes, was recorded by Decca in 1996 and has been successfully revived (for example, by the Los Angeles Opera in 2009).
Los Angeles | opera | Los Angeles Times | Metropolitan Opera | Los Angeles Dodgers | Royal Opera House | Los Angeles Lakers | Sydney Opera House | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Vienna State Opera | San Francisco Opera | Los Angeles Philharmonic | New York City Opera | Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim | Los Angeles International Airport | Los Alamos National Laboratory | The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) | Los Angeles Police Department | The Threepenny Opera | Opera | Los Angeles County | Los Angeles County, California | Los Angeles Kings | Los Lobos | Doctors (soap opera) | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Falstaff (opera) | Paris Opera | Royal Swedish Opera | Opera Australia |
Before creation of the Los Angeles Opera company, the New York City Opera came regularly on tour and performed in the Pavilion.
They have also performed at the Los Angeles Opera House with Plácido Domingo, and were the first British classical act to perform in Las Vegas.