Resonate

Metropolitan Opera alumna Elizabeth Futral took to the pool this weekend with clarinettist Todd Palmer in a world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Orpheus and Euridice.”

The new opera, performed by the Long Beach Opera, is staged — well, not really staged — not in a concert hall but at and in an Olympic-sized pool.

The pool idea was inspired by the libretto’s focus on water. (Orpheus crosses the River Styx to find his lost love.)

The Long Beach Opera has a history of taking big risks and thinking outside of the concert hall. Last year the company staged Grigori Frid’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” in two parking garages.