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Los Angeles Opera
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Movie magic, please
Entertainment |
August 31, 2008
IN DIRECTOR David Cronenberg’s 1986 movie “The Fly” – remember “Be afraid. Read more
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Accidentally Puccini
Entertainment |
June 7, 2008
WHEN Los Angeles Opera opens its final offering of the season, Puccini’s seldom-heard “La Rondine,” tonight at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the offstage creative team will represent a curious coincidence. Read more
Friday, May 16, 2008
The ideal accessory
Entertainment |
May 16, 2008
HOW DO you add sparkle to a fatigued operatic war horse? Read more
Friday, December 14, 2007
QUICK TAKES - FINALLY
Entertainment |
December 14, 2007
Free performance: Los Angeles Opera will present a one-hour, fully
staged performance of Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” on Jan. Read more
Monday, December 10, 2007
New kids on the bohemian block
Entertainment |
December 10, 2007
A new cast of promising Bohemians took the stage in Los Angeles
Opera’s production of Puccini’s “La Boheme” on Saturday at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Read more
Saturday, November 17, 2007
QUICK TAKES - Gala will mark Domingo’s debut
Entertainment |
November 17, 2007
Los Angeles Opera will celebrate the 40th anniversary of company
general manager Placido Domingo’s first appearance at the company’s
home, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with an April 18 gala concert at the
theater at which Domingo is expected to perform. Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
QUICK TAKES - L.A. Opera comes to DVD
Entertainment |
October 26, 2007
Those who missed Broadway stars Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone in
Los Angeles Opera’s February production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt
Brecht’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” have two chances to
catch up. Read more
Monday, September 10, 2007
Breakout role
Entertainment |
September 10, 2007
Beethoven wrote only one opera, but he wrote it twice. Read more
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Here, God really is in the details
Entertainment |
September 8, 2007
Rehearsing the Los Angeles Opera chorus, conductor Plácido Domingo
was trying to get the hushed effect he wanted for part of the dreaded
“Dies irae” (Day of Judgment) in Verdi’s Requiem, a work he will
conduct Sunday afternoon as part of the company’s season-opening weekend. Read more
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Fear of a false note
Entertainment |
September 2, 2007
Next weekend, KUSC-FM (91.5) is scheduled to air live the two
opening productions of Los Angeles Opera’s 2007-08 season:
Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” led by company music director
James Conlon at 6 p.m. Read more
Monday, August 27, 2007
Live opera broadcasts set
Entertainment |
August 27, 2007
The first two productions of L.A. Opera’s 2007-08 season will be
broadcast live on KUSC-FM (91.5). Read more
Thursday, August 23, 2007
QUICK TAKES - Tenor leaves ‘Jenufa’ for Met
News |
August 23, 2007
Los Angeles Opera has released tenor Joseph Kaiser, who was slated
to sing in Janácek’s “Jenufa” from Sept. Read more
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
QUICK TAKES - Opera director to join project
Entertainment |
July 3, 2007
Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon will embark on a
two-year project with New York’s Juilliard School in the fall,
examining the relationship between the classical arts and society,
the school announced Monday. Read more
Friday, June 22, 2007
Woody Allen is taking an operatic turn
Entertainment |
June 22, 2007
Filmmaker Woody Allen will make his opera directing debut with
Puccini’s comedy “Gianni Schicchi” to open the Los Angeles Opera’s
2008-09 season, the company announced Thursday. Read more
Friday, May 25, 2007
Domingo to kick off opera season
Entertainment |
May 25, 2007
Los Angeles Opera has changed the plans for its season-opening weekend. Read more
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
L.A. Opera taps Master Chorale’s Grant Gershon
Entertainment |
May 22, 2007
Los Angeles Master Chorale music director Grant Gershon has been
appointed to the new position of associate conductor and chorus
master of Los Angeles Opera, the company announced Monday. Read more
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Opera tickets discounted
Entertainment |
April 25, 2007
Los Angeles Opera will offer specially priced $20 tickets for all
seats available at the May 18 performance of George Gershwin’s “Porgy
and Bess” and the May 20 performance of Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow.” Read more
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
He had Valkyrie by the horns
Entertainment |
March 14, 2007
Edgar Baitzel, who died Sunday of cancer, was the chief operating
officer of Los Angeles Opera. Read more
