Tag: LA Opera
Angel Blue Comes Home with “Tosca”
"Any woman who can put herself into Tosca's shoes, make it through the whole evening and come off stage with their head held high - you've done a great thing."
Jamez McCorkle Contemplates His Role in “Omar”
"I myself am very contemplative about everything. I don't necessarily wear my emotions on my sleeve, but when I'm on stage as an opera singer something just changes and I just become this extremely emotive person."
Conductor Lina González-Granados Considers “Lucia”…
"I honestly think that there is nothing more gaslighting than this opera. Even the orchestra speaks for her before she can."
Latonia Moore Once Again Faces Down Verdi’s “Aida”
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
Composer Du Yun Explores 21st Century Manhood
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
Grant Gershon: 20 Years with the Los Angeles Master Chorale
"I don't feel like we're a well-kept secret anymore. We're well kept and we're out in the world much more."
Soprano Tiffany Townsend Sings George Walker’s “Lilacs”
"Am I just here because I'm Black or am I here because I'm talented? I tend to be the only black person in the room. I see that changing."
Louisa Muller Dusts Off “Tannhaüser” for LA Opera
"I think my role as director is to unlock something specific, more specific, so there's a sort of universality to what you feel from the music."
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Leading this week's list are two concerts by jazz sensation Jazzmeia Horn
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Fourteen options to enjoy culture at home this weekend lead by a new work by Tyshawn Sorey