The composer and librettist Peter Sellars look at Christ's Passion through the eyes of women caregivers. It's 'The Gospel According to the Other Mary.'Many of John Adams' scores pursue the b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThe Los Angeles Philharmonic's new production of the Mozart opera is an extraordinary achievement, freshly illuminated and site-specific. Los Angeles Opera can stop worrying right now.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThe company trots out Herb Ross' popular 1993 production, not an ideal staging for the young cast, including Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello."La Bohème" is back. So too is Los Angeles Oper…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThe wow factor is considerable as the New Yorkers — podium in tow — blow out the L.A. venue with their powerful sound and virtuosity in a wide-ranging program.The New York Philha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:06PMMark Swed reviews Long Beach Opera's overly silly but marvelously performed Surrealist double bill of Martinu's "Tears of A Knife" and Poulenc's "The Breasts of Tiresias."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50PMThe music making, highlighted by James Conlon s vital conducting, is, for the most part, excellent.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:22PMMark Swed reviews Los Angeles Opera's sassy and well performed production of Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMMark Swed reviews the San Diego Opera production of Jake Heggie's "Moby-Dick."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:01PMMark Swed reviews Rinde Eckert's stunningly effective "Moby Dick" theater piece, "And God Created Great Whales" at REDCAT.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:25PMTechnology enables people with severe physical and mental disabilities to communicate and enjoy a more enriching life.There is a great deal of music in the world, and no one knows exactly wh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMTanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch troupe gives energetic performance of 'Danzón.' Too bad that, in light of its founder's death in 2009, its future is hardly secure.Tanztheater Wuppertal Pi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMPeter Sellars' "Desdemona" -- with text by Toni Morrison and music by Rokia Traoré -- is an incantatory new re-imagining of Shakespeare's "Othello," giving the missing voice to the women an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMTim Fain's "Portals" is a multi-media violin recital experiment which reached the West Coast Sunday at the Broad Stage and included the premiere of Philip Glass solo Partita. The experiment …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:51PMMark Swed reviews Los Angeles Opera's first production of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," which opened the company's 26th season at the Music Center.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMThe Soka Performing Arts Center, which opens Saturday night in Aliso Viejo, is a new acoustical jewel by star acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota. Mark Swed reports on a dress rehearsal by the Pacif…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PMSanta Fe Opera revives Berg's "Wozzeck" for the first time in a decade. David Robertson is the exceptional conductor.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMPoor Spidey got a raw deal. Mark Swed looks at the little of Julie Taymor's direction that is left in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the the Dark" in context of Peter Brook's "A Magic Flute" and the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMark Swed reviews a "Turandot" first for Gustavo Dudamel and Christine Brewer at the Hollywood Bowl
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:27PMMark Swed reviews Peter Brook's radical reduced "A Magic Flute"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:24PMMark Swed reviews the Southern California premiere of "Jerry Springer: The Opera."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMMark Swed reviews the Hollywood Bowl premiere of the film version of "West Side Story" with live orchestra
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:47PMMark Swed reviews a new recording of Pulitzer Prize winning scores from the 1940s.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMark Swed reviews the Eric Whitacre's "Paradise Lost" in a semi-staged performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMMark Swed reviews Francesca Zambello's new "Ring" cycle for San Francisco Opera, the first directed by American woman.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:19PM
