Chromatic Produdction Company Chromatic is a new Los Angeles-based production company led by director James Darrah, whose collective of interdisciplinary artists collaborate to create aesthetic theatrical experiences across blurring mediums. Comprised of directors, production designers, illustrators, fine artists, photographers, writers, and performers, the group combines their prismatic skills for original projects within the realms of theater, opera, film, design, special events, and visual curation. With work ranging from art installation events to national advertising photo campaigns and upcoming studio films, the members of Chromatic have recently collaborated on projects with Relativity Media, Beth Morrison Projects and the Prototype Festival NYC, Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Industry, Pacific Symphony, Disney Channel, LA Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard School, PBS Network, Opera Omaha, Opera Philadelphia, wildUp, Pacific Musicworks, Trinity Wall Street, LA Opera, Los Angeles Theater Center, HBO, Bay Chamber Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Sundance Institute, San Francisco Opera, and the San Francisco Symphony, with whom Chromatic’s full production of Britten’s Peter Grimes was described as “one of the strongest, most theatrically imaginative, musically and dramatically compelling productions of the work” by the Wall Street Journal. This current season has included Chromatic’s design and curation of the concert Pulp at Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures on the grounds of the Music Academy of the West. Hailed as “the future of classical music” by the Los An-
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geles Times, Pulp is the first in a series of planned collaborations between the collective and the orchestra wildUp. Chromatic also partnered on two projects with the Los Angeles Philharmonic this season — an installation for the concert Theater of the Outrageous, featuring a United States premiere by Olga Neuwirth with John Adams conducting, and the scenic design and staging of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in partnership with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in a co-production with the San Francisco Symphony, where they will install the piece this June. Additional projects have included Chromatic’s return to their annual Opera Omaha residency and a new production of John Adams’s A Flowering Tree and the company’s production design and direction debut in the inaugural season of Opera San Antonio with a double bill featuring Poulenc’s La voix humaine. Chromatic is currently continuing development on the new play The Ballad of Haint Blue by Sundance playwright fellow Roxie Perkins. The group is also designing and directing a new Così fan tutte with conductor Edo de Waart, Handel’s Semele in a co-production with Opera Omaha and Opera Philadelphia starting in the 2015-16 season, and two world premieres with composer Missy Mazzoli and writer Royce Vavrek: Breaking the Waves, an opera based on the film from Lars von Trier, in 2016, and Proving Up in 2018. This coming summer, they will curate an installation featuring Jonathan Dove's L'altra Euridice for the August Bay Chamber Festival in Maine. For more information, please visit www.chromatic.la.
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