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 08:15AMAn appreciation: Los Angeles owes much to the late Gerard Mortier, who revolutionized the Salzburg Festival and helped give Esa-Pekka Salonen and the L.A. Philharmonic an international stage…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:40PMThe Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky at Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Gustavo Dudamel.Orchestras everywhere play a lot of Tchaikovsky. The Simón Bolívar Symphony O…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AML.A. Philharmonic maestro Gustavo Dudamel disputes news reports and tries to distance himself from political unrest and violence in his native Venezuela.Wherever he goes, Los Angeles Philhar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMAttending the opera was once straighforward. Buy a ticket and go. But that was before the information age. A little more can be involved these days.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMWith Andrey Boreyko conducting, the L.A. Phil touches down in the Baltic for an absorbing evening of Anders Hillborg's 'King Tide,' Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto and Sibelius' Second Sympho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMLong Beach Opera makes the most ambitious effort yet on a Duke Ellington opera-in-the-making, and it has an electrifying cast to work with.Did Duke Ellington want to write an opera? Absolute…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMA young company assembles a strong cast of emerging singers for the production of the Benjamin Britten work, its most ambitious offering, at an arts district venue.Pacific Opera Project, a y…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:35AMKronos Quartet, George Benjamin's 'Written on Skin,' Christopher Cerrone's 'Invisible Cities' and more.In this time when news is disseminated ever more quickly, we asked our critics to list …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMNotes on the Year: The Philip Glass opera 'The Perfect American' does more for the image of Walt Disney as an artist than Disney's own film 'Saving Mr. Banks.'Philip Glass, who turned 76 the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMLos Angeles Opera's new production leans too often on jokey shtick, but music director James Conlon deftly handles Verdi's magical score.Los Angeles finally has its first new "Falstaff" in d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMIn 'Invisible Cities,' audiences roam Union Station to experience Christopher Cerrone's new opera based on Italo Calvino's novel. But much of this fascinating tale is meant to be imagined.If…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:29PMFrom the first counts to the last four ecstatic hours later, Los Angeles Opera's heroic mounting of the experimental Philip Glass and Robert Wilson work 'Einstein on the Beach' is a rapturou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PMAs Los Angeles Opera prepares to present 'Einstein on the Beach,' composer Philip Glass discusses the 37-year-old work's creation.NEW YORK — What opera launched a legendarily prolific …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMThe Los Angeles Public Library has been obsessing over “Moby Dick” lately, with celebrity readings, discussions, scientific studies, family days, film screenings and whatnot.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30PMThe late American composer Peter Lieberson imagined he was creating a campfire opera, a Tibetan Buddhist legend told by a narrator, who recites, scats and sings, backed by a small instrument…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMYou can’t seemingly find a more insider composer than David Del Tredici, whose “Bullycide” was commissioned by La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest and will have its p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:40PMThe Los Angeles Philharmonic's Gustavo Dudamel conducts a roller-coaster thrill ride at the Hollywood Bowl.I wonder whether the 9,985 who showed up at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday to hear Gu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:40PMMark Adamo may have invented a biblical Broadway/opera hybrid in the memorable 'Gospel of Mary Magdalene.'SAN FRANCISCO — There have been, in modern times, three Marilyns, a couple of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PM'Spring, Spring, Spring,' from the choreographer with an arrangement by the Bad Plus, reverses trends in performing Stravinksy's 'Rite of Spring.'BERKELEY — "The Rite of Spring" is a b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50PMPromising great things in the First Take at the Hammer are Mohammed Fairouz's 'Pierrot' and Pauline Oliveros' 'The Nubian Word for Flower.'Opera, in our parts, has embarked upon an exception…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMCritic's Notebook: Stanford's 'brain-like' Bing Concert Hall tends to engulf its audience, making it perhaps the perfect setting for the premiere of 'Visitations,' Jonathan Berger's chamber …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThe Royal Opera and English National Opera may be in flux, but what they're putting on stage is instructive for American companies.LONDON — The editor of Opera is worried.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMA whimsical production of the Rossini work that has been imported by L.A. Opera offers satire, class warfare — and lovable rats. Definitely bring the kids.The romanticized image Los An…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMJohn Adams has reworked his Passion/oratorio, Peter Sellars staged it and Gustavo Dudamel really brings it to life."The Gospel According to the Other Mary" is now another "Other Mary," the "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM"The Death of Klinghoffer," the controversial 1991 opera by John Adams, is scheduled to make its much-belated Los Angeles-area debut in 2014. But the producing company won't be L.A. Opera, w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMA river and a dragon shaped by writhing performers. A budget nearly one-eighth of L.A.'s. In Munich, the beast is inventively and economically tackled.MUNICH, Germany — Wagner's "The R…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMIn the new Philip Glass opera, 'The Perfect American,' the visionary is a flawed, dying man who, even so, makes magic.MADRID — Walt Disney was hardly a perfect American.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMGavin Bryars' 'Paper Nautilus' makes its American debut in a splendid, fluid performance at the Aquarium of the Pacific.Eight Summer Olympics ago, it was Los Angeles' turn. We did well with …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30AMSan Francisco Opera's staging of 'Nixon in China' features a capable cast. But exaggerated makeup and wigs, and silly dances detract from the production.SAN FRANCISCO — A production he…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThe 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…
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