Invisible Cities isn’t your parents’ opera. There’s no orchestra pit. There’s no stage. There’s no front row. Instead, the production, which is based on an Italo Calvino novel about an imagined conversation between emperor Kublai Khan and explorer Marco...
“I have seen in the last 30 years a tremendous change happening in Los Angeles.”
“We decided that half of this season would be looking back at where we’ve been. The second half would be pointing the way forward with new works and commissions.”
"A lot of music today is on the surface. There is a same-ness, a mind-numbingly boring, clichéd repetition of chord structures that has dumbed it down to the point of destruction. "
The woman who originated the role of Glinda in Wicked and won a Tony Award for her performance as Sally in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, will finally make her debut as a Hollywood Bowl headliner. Sure, Kristin Chenoweth has performed...
"Genuine originality will come naturally if you are in love with the music. You will have something new to say without having to search in a self-conscious way.”