Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera in three acts, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. First performed in 1904, in this ill-fated love story we meet Cio-Cio-San, a young...
The 2024-25 Season at The Soraya in Northridge is brimming with classical events, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Emanuel Ax, the Israel Philharmonic, LA’s own Colburn Orchestra with Conductor Stéphen...
Drácula, the 1931 Spanish-language film, is a notable adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel. It was produced by Universal Pictures and released concurrently with the more famous English-language version...
This Hallowe’en you can experience the very first (unauthorized) film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic tale Dracula – complete with live organ accompaniment – of F. W. Murnau‘s...
Thirty years ago, a group of gifted young pianists with a bent towards new music, gathered together to lick stamps. Led by the late pianist, scholar and Schoenberg associate Leonard Stein, they sat at his dining table...