by David Maurer | May 11, 2012 | Classical Music and Opera |
With La Bohème, Puccini sought to write an opera in the fashionable verismo style that took as its subject everyday life and attempted to treat it in a realistic manner. While his opera dates from the mid-1890s, his source material was a series of stories written in...
by David Maurer | Mar 28, 2012 | Classical Music and Opera |
There’s something mystical going on at the Masonic Lodge in Culver City, and it has to do with the letter ‘O.’ The Woman in the Wall is a new Opera, composed by O-Lan Jones, with music director/conductor David O. Is it a well-rounded piece of avant-garde performance...
by David Maurer | Mar 10, 2012 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
Fair warning: You ought to disregard this review. Read it if you like, then forget it because it is likely to have little to do with “The Seagull” you may see at the Deaf West Theatre. That’s because director Andrew Traister has chosen to double cast each of the...
by David Maurer | Feb 28, 2012 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
“Imagine a boot stamping upon a human face—forever.” Indeed, you won’t have to do too much imagining in the current run of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ by The Actors’ Gang in Culver City; the brutality, rage and paranoia seething within the claustrophobic totalitarian world...
by David Maurer | Feb 13, 2012 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
It is said that history does not repeat itself, but it frequently rhymes. This adage is wonderfully demonstrated as you watch the events in Simon Boccanegra unfold. For composer Giuseppe Verdi, his 1857 opera dramatizing the struggle between the Guelphs and...
