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...
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Pauline Adamek
THIS WEEKEND – The 37th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival – Los Angeles jazz concert review
From Miles Davis to Ella Fitzgerald, the Playboy Jazz Festival has hosted the biggest names in jazz during its three-decade history. Now in its 37th year, this coming weekend will be dominated by Jazz artists of all...
“Spring Awakening” at the Wallis – Los Angeles theater review
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...
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...