Adolescent angst and sexual exploration — with music by Duncan Sheik, and book and lyrics by Steven Sater, Spring Awakening is a feisty rock musical adaptation of a controversial German play. Written in 1892 by Frank...
Category - Performance
Pauline Adamek
Le Salon de Musiques, June – “Russian and Czech Masters” – Los Angeles musical concert review
This season’s final concert features an exquisite Russian and Czech Masters program, with works by Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Gnesin, Iosif Andriasov, and one Czech Composer, Vitezslav Novak. The program includes two...
Le Salon de Musiques, May – “Masters Rediscovered” – Los Angeles musical concert review
“From the city of Oranienbaum-Russia, where he was born in 1882, until his last journey to the Island of San Michele-Venice in Italy where he was buried in 1971, Igor Stravinsky spent almost 28 years in Los Angeles...
Interview with Carlo Ponti about LA Virtuosi – his new Chamber Orchestra – Los Angeles classical music interview
The Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra envisions a world in which every young person has access to music education. LA Virtuosi is Carlo Ponti’s totally non-profit orchestra supporting arts education in the schools. Maestro...
Guignol de Lyon “Le pot de confiture” – Los Angeles puppet theater report
The “Pot de confiture” is the most performed play of Laurent Mourguet, Guignol’s creator. Collectif Zonzons refreshes this classic and modernizes the ancient art of hand puppetry. Guignol is an impish French hand...