by David Maurer | Mar 1, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
Spring is coming and romance is in the air again, percolating through the hallowed halls of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Yes, The Barber of Seville is back at LA Opera and with it, its delightful troupe of lovers, schemers, bumblers and blowhards. It’s the same...
by David Maurer | Feb 27, 2015 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
“American Buffalo” is an example of what playwright and screenwriter David Mamet does best: lifting up the proverbial rock to inspect the lives, schemes — and especially language — of America’s shadier subcultures. Mamet’s characters unload a torrent of argot,...
by David Maurer | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
The chance to immerse oneself into a strange new world comes with some frequency in cinema, where filmmakers can and do take you virtually anywhere. But dramatic plays tend to explore the inner spaces of emotion and memory — and being human, this is more familiar...
by David Maurer | Dec 27, 2014 | Classical Music and Opera |
Whether camping it up with a debauched La Calisto, or playing it straight outdoors atop church rooftops in Tosca, Pacific Opera Project (POP) never fails to deliver surprising twists on the traditional. In the case of Puccini’s La Bohème, Director and Company Founder...
by David Maurer | Nov 26, 2014 | Classical Music and Opera |
I was reminded while watching LA Opera’s latest production, Florencia en el Amazonas, of the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog’s epic tale of a dreamer who wants to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Referring to the film’s infamous feat of...
