It is remarkable that Claude Debussy’s PELLEAS ET MELISANDE remains sui generis 121 years after the opera’s premiere. Despite aggressively modern works by Schoenberg, Tippett, Berio, and Glass, it remains, in its […]
Audiences have long had a love affair with the dashing hero of Edmond Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Theatre creators also succumbed to the charms of the man with the generous […]
A show curtain for the current LA Opera production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (The Marriage of Figaro) prominently features Commedia del Arte characters. Was this an indication that […]
The always ambitious Pacific Opera Project (POP) is presenting the American premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s ERCOLE SU’L TERMONDONTE (Hercules on the Thermodon) along with an interactive theatrical history lesson. The […]
For those of us who came of artistic age in Los Angeles during the 1980’s and 90’s, the CAST Theatre was a vibrant home to a wide range of plays […]
John Wuchte’s 2019 Hollywood Fringe show Scarlett Fever, a physical theatre exploration of the legendary search for Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind,” was certainly the highlight of that last pre-pandemic Fringe […]
