Ainadamar
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 […]
Photo by Corey Weaver
Photo by Cory Weaver.
Cosi Fan Tutte
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 […]
Kim, Edris. Photo by Cory Weaver.
Romeo and Juliet
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 […]
The Dwarf/Highway 1, USA
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 […]
Cast at the McCadden
Gunfight at the Not-So-OK Saloon
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 […]
Shelton.
Sinatra: Raw
After playing venues across the world, Richard Shelton brings his extraordinary performance as Frank Sinatra in SINATRA: RAW to the LA Fringe Festival. The setting is the Purple Room in […]