12 stories 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
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
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 und L…
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:
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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 Alexa…
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 labor…
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 in …
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 part …
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's '…
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 Real M…
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…
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 …
