After their monumental work on distilling E.L. Doctorow’s RAGTIME into a cohesive stage musical, playwright/librettist Terrence McNally approached Composer Stephen Flaherty and Lyricist Lynn Ahrens about a more intimate story from another […]
The life of Federico Garcia Lorca, poet, playwright, and martyr could easily be the subject of a conventional biographical opera. But, with AINADAMAR, composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry […]
I have never experienced being targeted for so much online advertising with any opera production than I was with than the COSI FAN TUTTE currently playing at LA Opera. Having never watched LOVE […]
Charles Gounod’s operas were enormously popular during the second half of the Nineteenth Century. FAUST, his most famous work, was a staple for all opera companies well into the Twentieth […]
James Conlon, LA Opera’s music director, has long championed a group of composers, silenced by the rise of the Third Reich in Germany. To shine a light on these unjustly […]
Gilbert and Sullivan were the premiere purveyors of comic opera in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. (Jacques Offenbach was really their only rival). Despite, or perhaps because of […]
