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…
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' "…
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…
The Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky at Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Gustavo Dudamel.Orchestras everywhere play a lot of Tchaikovsky. The Simón BolÃvar Sy…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Notes 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
The Los Angeles Public Library has been obsessing over “Moby Dick” lately, with celebrity readings, discussions, scientific studies, family days, film screenings and whatnot.
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…
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…
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…
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 …
'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…
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…
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 …
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.
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…