So my first large audience theatre experience since being fully vaccinated featured women sporting two-foot-long phalluses singing Liza Minnelli songs in a Greek amphitheater on the grounds of the Getty Villa. Perhaps...
Category - Classical
Terry Morgan
“Birds in the Moon” opera review
A haunting work, Birds in the Moon—the chamber opera by composer Mark Grey and librettist Júlia Canosa i Serra—made its West Coast Premiere last week, as presented by The Broad Stage. With its cunning, multi-level set...
Pauline Adamek
Free concerts!
The Philharmonie Berlin is closed until 19 April to help contain the coronavirus. But the orchestra will continue to play for you – in the Digital Concert Hall. The Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to visit their...
Free opera!
The New York City institution, The Metropolitan Opera, is now offering streaming of titles from its Live in HD series each night through the duration of the closure. The performances, originally captured as live...
Carlo Ponti and Red Hen Press: Facets of Fatherhood
Poetry combined with exquisite classical music–what a delightful combination! I interviewed Maestro Carlo Ponti in 2015, not long after he formed his Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra. The Los Angeles Virtuosi...