Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Unlike the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony, which have outdoor summer homes, the New York Philharmonic wanders when the weather gets hot. In …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
On a day in which this city ecstatically celebrated the Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage, "Two Women," you might think, could mean only one thing Sunday afternoon.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:06PMMonday, June 22, 2015
On April 19, 1943, a Swiss chemist in Basel treated himself to a small sample of a fungi-based substance, LSD-25, and rode his bicycle home, taking the first acid trip. A month earlier, a on…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:53PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Berlioz' "Les Troyens" -- a five-hour epic opera after Virgil's "Aeneid" with touches of Homer, Shakespeare and music like none ever written before for the lyric stage -- is the grandest Fre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:21AMSunday, June 7, 2015
The idea of reviving a 32-year-old collaboration between composer John Adams, choreographer Lucinda Childs and architect Frank Gehry that had been commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:12PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Could “Anna” come home to America? I would like to think that with the example of John Adams and Peter Sellars, Americans might object to the opera's lack of a woman’s poin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PMMonday, May 4, 2015
John Zorn is a defiant, protean musician, inescapable on the American scene everywhere it would seem except Los Angeles. But after a 25-year absence, he was back this weekend to proteate.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45AMFriday, April 24, 2015
From the day it opened, Lincoln Center, one of the world's grandest arts complexes, has struggled to get it right. That first night in 1962 in Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall and so…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMMonday, April 6, 2015
Claire Chase, a flutist and MacArthur "genius," on Saturday afternoon did what only a brilliant flutist and MacArthur "genius" could do: She turned UCLA's Schoenberg Hall into a giant lung.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMMonday, March 16, 2015
"We live in unsettled times," the president sings at the beginning of John Adams' opera "Nixon in China." He has just arrived in Peking (now Beijing) for his 1972 meeting with Chairman Mao, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15AMSunday, March 1, 2015
I have not seen so happy an audience at Los Angeles Opera this season as the crowd in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night. The company revived its slapstick 2009 production of Ro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:09PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Opera as an art form about investigation might seem a radical idea in a modern world where so much about contemporary arts and entertainment is defined by conventional narrative. But such wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:40PMThursday, February 12, 2015
In Tchaikovsky's last opera, "Iolanta," a blind princess who knows nothing of sight learns to embrace threatening light. In Bartók's early opera, "Bluebeard's Castle," a young bride seeking…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PMSunday, January 25, 2015
Tobias Picker, whose "Thérèse Raquin" was revived by Long Beach Opera on Saturday night at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, is a New Yorker with a melodramatic style that seems to su…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40PMMonday, October 27, 2014
Four cautious years after staging Achim Freyer's cutting-edge but coffer-draining "Ring" cycle, Los Angeles Opera has once more sharpened its edge, and dangerously so. On Saturday night, it …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
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Cav and Pag. Coming to the Hollywood Bowl as they did Sunday night, these might have sounded like the names of a pair of sitcom slackers. And there they were, generating laughs from a good-s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25AMFriday, July 25, 2014
Wilfried Souly, Rosanna Gamson and O-Lan Jones' Overtone Industries launch the 2014 New Original Works Festival with dance and musical theater that evoke a sense of dislocation.Wilfried Soul…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:03PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Long Beach Opera’s most memorable production of the past three years was David Lang’s “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field.” It is about little more than a plantation owner in 1854 wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:08PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
I don’t know to what extent this city practices religious tolerance. But the two noble and awe-inspiring architectural landmarks in the tony, leafy, popular Central West End are the beauti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:14PMThursday, June 12, 2014
The fact that modern dance was born in Los Angeles is well known, and it is not. Dance texts are not uncertain on the subject. In 1915, the pioneer Ruth St. Denis -- who took inspiration fro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:11PMThursday, May 15, 2014
Thaïs, the sexiest woman in Alexandria during the Byzantine era, and Blanche DuBois, the steamy Southern belle slipping past her prime in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,”…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:19PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Movement mimics activity in the 'Acis and Galatea' score as the love story of a shepherd and a nymph is made into a lively, unpredictable hybrid of opera and dance. BERKELEY — Acis, a …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Frederica von Stade compellingly stars as a wealthy and remorseful Texas widow in Ricky Ian Gordon's opera 'A Coffin in Egypt' at the Wallis in Beverly Hills.As an art form with a specialty …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Critic's Notebook: Is irony getting old? It may feel that way in a look at two dances that deal with brotherly ties: 'Rocco' at REDCAT and 'Pavement' at UCSB.Bar business wasn't so hot at RE…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Death in Peter Brook’s elusive, essential production of “The Suit,” which closes this weekend at UCLA, is not losing your balance. Falling and picking yourself up again mea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:49PMFriday, March 21, 2014
Critic's Notebook: The performance of Verdi's Requiem ahead of San Diego Opera's closing is a rousing rebuke to that disturbing decision.SAN DIEGO — On the first page of the program bo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
John Adams' controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' gets a spirited Southern California premiere by Long Beach Opera.Long Beach Opera is the latest company with bragging rights to John Adams' "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:15AM 
