LA Opera goes Broadway musical with ‘Light in the Piazza’

The banners on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion say Los Angeles Opera. But the company’s current production of Adam Guettel’s “The Light in the Piazza” is a Broadway musical through and through.
Based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the show (direct from its London engagement at the Royal Festival Hall) is as light and airy as a spring day in Florence with a few dark family secrets held in reserve for suspense and conflict.
It may not be an opera, but the cast does feat