Gabriella Reyes and Duke Kim Bridge Disciplines in a Bold New ‘West Side Story’ in L.A.

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It had a big impact on me,” soprano Gabriella Reyes tells Observer about seeing the movie for the first time. The daughter of immigrants, she’s singing Maria in LA Opera’s season opener through Oct. 12. It has escalated.”Making her LA Opera debut, Reyes is familiar to New York fans from the Met’s 2024-2025 season as Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. ‘Tony’ to her ‘Maria’ is tenor Duke Kim, who brought the house down last season as Romeo in LA Opera’s production of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Reyes and Kim are the only two opera singers in the cast, with musical theater performers filling out the rest.