by David Maurer | Oct 8, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera |
What, you may be wondering, is uCarmen? As you might guess, it is a version of Bizet’s popular opera Carmen, but what’s with the prefix? If it was eCarmen, we might suspect an Internet-based version of the opera; or if iCarmen, it would suggest a sleek, new redesign...
by David Maurer | Sep 20, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
If you’ve never been up to Glendale’s Forest Lawn cemetery, you should go. There aren’t any tombstones, only grave plaques set into the ground, so the setting has the appearance of a verdant mountainous park. Not even a spot of burned-out, drought-parched grass here...
by David Maurer | Sep 19, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera |
We don’t hear much these days about the Seven Deadly Sins, the classification of vices handed down by early church teachings. While today’s standards of morality elicit barely a shrug for most offenses, LA Opera’s current pair of short operas reminds us of the former...
by David Maurer | Aug 5, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera |
You’ve got to admire the chutzpah of a guy who decides to stake his entire musical career on the mandolin. Avi Avital is a 37-year-old Israeli who has been studying his chosen instrument since the age of 8. His focus has been on contemporary classical and Baroque...
by David Maurer | Jul 20, 2015 | Theater and Dance, Uncategorized |
As part of their “Americana” series of productions this summer, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum is offering up Green Grow the Lilacs, a 1931 play by Lynn Riggs that, while rarely performed itself, was the inspiration for the mega-hit musical Oklahoma!. If you like...
