The LA Opera has just launched a new initiative, 30/30/30, to celebrate the company’s 30th Anniversary Season. They have crafted some creative ways for newcomers to enjoy the opera experience, and the main one is...
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Pauline Adamek
Cast shines in Hollywood Bowl “La Traviata” – Los Angeles opera review
The LA Philharmonic stages an opera performance in concert at the Hollywood Bowl every summer. This year, that opera was Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata (“The Fallen Woman”). Based on Alexandre Dumas’ “La dame aux...
Ash Revell
“The Trojans” – San Francisco Opera mounts spectacular production of Berlioz masterpiece – Opera review
Hector Berlioz felt a strong connection to Virgil’s epic poem Aeneid and so when he began to compose his opera The Trojans / Les Troyens, based on Books 2 & 4 of the poem, it was a labor of love. Berlioz wrote the...
“Dog Days” LA Opera at REDCAT – Los Angeles opera interview
Opening tonight, and making its West Coast Premiere, is Dog Days, a deeply unsettling 2012 operatic work that blends classical vocalism with dark, heavy metal influences. In the aftermath of an unimaginable catastrophe...
La Opera’s ‘Figaro Unbound’ season draws to a close: Another “Barber Of Seville” – Los Angeles opera review
LA Opera’s season-long Figaro Unbound tribute to the characters created by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais is drawing to a close, but its latest event is among the most interesting in the season long program:...