by Julie Riggott | Jun 25, 2019 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
David Grann, a journalist who writes nonfiction that reads like fiction, has written compelling books about a British explorer who disappeared in the Amazon looking for a lost ancient city and the Osage Indian murders that led to the creation of the FBI. In December...
by Julie Riggott | Jun 13, 2019 | Theater and Dance |
Sigrid Gilmer’s “Mama Metal” is a surreal take on the “mama drama,” the two most famous of which, Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” figure in this new play. Gilmer’s Humanitas-developed meta-theatrical...
by Henry Schlinger | May 21, 2019 | Classical Music and Opera |
On May 17, the LA Phil, conducted by Dudamel and joined by five well-known pianists, embarked on a week-long series of concerts featuring the five piano concertos by Beethoven. Sunday’s concert, surprisingly, was a very classical one, including Beethoven’s Egmont...
by Julie Riggott | Apr 9, 2019 | Classical Music and Opera |
The libretto for Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” is in Italian, but the characters are American and Japanese. What if, Pacific Opera Project asked, we rewrote this opera in English and Japanese? Sounds amazing, right? … Well, it is! On April 6, Pacific Opera Project and...
by Julie Riggott | Mar 6, 2019 | Classical Music and Opera |
Though commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II in Prague in 1791, and based on Titus Flavius Vespasianus who became emperor of Rome in 79 A.D., Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” speaks to our current state of affairs. The opera champions a merciful ruler...