185 stories by "Mark Swed"
The 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…
Santa Fe Opera revives Berg's "Wozzeck" for the first time in a decade. David Robertson is the exceptional conductor.
Poor 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 …
Mark Swed reviews a "Turandot" first for Gustavo Dudamel and Christine Brewer at the Hollywood Bowl
Mark Swed reviews Peter Brook's radical reduced "A Magic Flute"
Mark Swed reviews the Southern California premiere of "Jerry Springer: The Opera."
Mark Swed reviews the Hollywood Bowl premiere of the film version of "West Side Story" with live orchestra
Mark Swed reviews a new recording of Pulitzer Prize winning scores from the 1940s.
Mark Swed reviews the Eric Whitacre's "Paradise Lost" in a semi-staged performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Mark Swed reviews Francesca Zambello's new "Ring" cycle for San Francisco Opera, the first directed by American woman.