LBO is thrilled to follow in Oliveros’ footsteps with our own reconstruction of Bye Bye Butterfly – a first-ever live staging and production of the piece surrounded by stagings of five additional Oliveros-composed and smaller operatic experiences. These will all be interpreted and responded to by a diverse subset of formidable artists using primarily her text scores and life’s work instead of traditional notation.

Oliveros’ operatic experiments will be newly arranged and led by Music Director Darian Donovan Thomas in his LBO debut. Thomas is a lauded composer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist with credits that include appearances on NPR’s Tiny Desk and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Director, producer and East Los Angeles native McCall Cadenas serves as Visual Director–guiding Oliveros’ work as a staged experience leading an award winning design team all collaborating to create an immersive staged production in the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC).

The show will be brought to life through a unique process between the entire cohort of artists, with leaders Thomas and Cadenas drawing inspiration from interviews with Oliveros on her own processes during her initial recording of Bye Bye Butterfly. It promises celebration of the power of collective art-making and showcase LBO's bold new focus on empowering genre-shifting teams of next-gen creatives that work together to merge and transcend genres.