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 […]
Kim, Edris. Photo by Cory Weaver.
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 […]
Photo Credit Cory Weaver/LA Opera
Otello
It is no surprise that Giuseppe Verdi revered Shakespeare; one master dramatist recognizing that genius in another. The young Verdi had written an operatic adaptation of MACBETH but stayed away […]
Mason, Rorrer, Lam, Wright, Boek, Edemodi, Lane, Ferri. Photo by Jenny Graham.
The Pilot Who Crashed the Party
Paul Sand’s new play, THE PILOT WHO CRASHED THE PARTY, boasts an intriguing title. And the description, which hints at an homage/satire of drawing room dramas, conjures images of well-dressed […]