Thursday, 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 08:15AMMonday, March 10, 2014
An 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 11:40PMFriday, February 28, 2014
The 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 08:30AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
L.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 09:30AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Attending 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 12:00PMMonday, February 3, 2014
With 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 08:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Long 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 08:30AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
A 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 09:35AMFriday, December 20, 2013
Kronos 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 11:30AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Los 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 08:30AMMonday, October 21, 2013
In '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 03:29PMSunday, October 13, 2013
From 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 10:05PMSaturday, October 5, 2013
As 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 12:00PMThursday, October 3, 2013
The 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 12:30PMThursday, September 12, 2013
The 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 11:30AMThursday, August 15, 2013
You 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 12:40PMMonday, August 12, 2013
The 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 07:40PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Mark 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 07:05PMThursday, June 13, 2013
'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 07:50PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Promising 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 08:00AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Critic'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 08:00AMSaturday, March 30, 2013
The 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 11:00AMMonday, March 25, 2013
A 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 08:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2013
John 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 
