Tag: LA Opera
This Weekend in LA (9/22-9/24)
Culture choices abound this weekend. Here are my picks as the best options:
A Little Night Music in Concert - Colony Theatre (Fri/Sat/Sun)
Any opportunity to...
How Soprano Ana María Martínez Becomes Carmen
Imagine being a six-year-old asked to watch an opera. Let’s be honest, how many six-year-olds want to do that? But if your mother is...
Can We Interest You in an Opera That Starts With an...
What opera comes with an advisory that the production features nudity, violence, mature themes and adult language? (Spoiler: it’s not The Magic Flute.) But...
The L.A. Chamber Orchestra is Trying Something Very Different to Create...
When you see “commissioned by” written on a concert program, you can bet that the name of a performing arts or philanthropic organization will...
Award-winning Composer John Corigliano Encounters The Ghosts of Versailles
The Figaro trilogy features three operas inspired by the works of Beaumarchais. Two of them are very well known: The Marriage of Figaro by...
Philip Glass Looks Backwards and Forwards on His 50-Year Career
“I never thought of myself being able to make a living by dying,” says Philip Glass. 50 years after 1964’s “Brass Sextet,” the prolific...
Broadway Star Audra McDonald Returns to LA Opera for One Night
Stephen Sondheim says he prefers actors who sing to singers who act. Five-time Tony Award winner Broadway star Audra McDonald responds, “I’m not what...