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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert holds 32nd Annual Voice Competition by Jeffrey Roberts

Last weekend, the Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert held its 32nd Annual Voice Competition at the Helene Galen Performing Arts Center at Rancho Mirage

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:30PM

Friday, December 4, 2015

“Norma” LA Opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma arrived at the LA Opera last week for six performances through December 13th. Norma is set during the Roman Empire and tells

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:38PM

Thursday, September 24, 2015

“Luisa Miller” – Opera review of the San Francisco Opera production by Jeffrey Roberts

The 2015/16 San Francisco opera season opened on September 11th with a revival of Francesca Zambello’s production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Luisa Miller, based on the play “Kabale u…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:22PM

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

“Gianni Schicchi” and “Pagliacci” – LA Opera opens its 2015-16 season – Los Angeles opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

LA Opera opened its 2015-16 season with a double bill of Puccini’s comedy Gianni Schicchi and Leoncavallo’s melodrama Pagliacci. Here follow two reviews by Jeffrey Roberts: Gia…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:28PM

Monday, August 10, 2015

Cast shines in Hollywood Bowl “La Traviata” – Los Angeles opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

The LA Philharmonic stages an opera performance in concert at the Hollywood Bowl every summer. This year, that opera was Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata (“The Fallen Woman”). Based on A…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:51PM

Monday, June 29, 2015

“The Trojans” – San Francisco Opera mounts spectacular production of Berlioz masterpiece – Opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

Hector Berlioz felt a strong connection to Virgil’s epic poem Aeneid and so when he began to compose his opera The Trojans / Les Troyens, based on Books 2 & 4 of the poem, it was a lab…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:03PM

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

La Opera’s ‘Figaro Unbound’ season draws to a close: Another “Barber Of Seville” – Los Angeles opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

LA Opera’s season-long Figaro Unbound tribute to the characters created by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais is drawing to a close, but its latest event is among the most interesting i…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:26PM

Friday, March 27, 2015

The other “Barber of Seville” offering – Los Angeles opera report by Jeffrey Roberts

In my recent review of LA Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro, I lamented that the company had missed an opportunity by not doing Giovanni Paisiello’s adaptation of The Barber of Seville as p…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:07PM

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

LA Opera’s “The Marriage of Figaro” – Los Angeles opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

LA Opera’s Figaro Trilogy came to a triumphant conclusion Saturday night with the opening of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. The trilogy began earlier this season with Corigliano…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:12PM

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

“The Barber of Seville” – LA Opera – Los Angeles opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

Los Angeles Opera’s inventive Figaro Trilogy continued last Saturday night with the opening of Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in a revival of the production from the Teatro Re…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:45PM

Friday, November 14, 2014

Sondra Radvanovsky in recital – Los Angeles Opera review by Jeffrey Roberts

American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky returned Saturday evening to Los Angeles Opera for a one night only recital of songs and arias by Beethoven, Verdi, Rachmaninov, Duparc, Massenet, and Cop…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:41PM

Monday, October 13, 2014

Los Angeles Philharmonic – Beethoven concert review by Jeffrey Roberts

It has been almost a year since I last attended a concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yesterday’s concert of Beethoven and John Adams reminds me (as if I needed reminding) that I …

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:42PM

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