by David Maurer | Apr 27, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
With the recent closing of LA Opera’s Götterdämmerung, the circus has packed up and left town. But like a classic rocker’s farewell tour, this motley crew will soon be back for an encore performance — despite the grumbles of ‘good riddance’ that lately have been...
by David Maurer | Mar 13, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
For some years now, the Da Camera Society has been presenting Chamber Music in Historic Sites, where pre-modern music is performed in distinctive venues from Pasadena to the Westside. On March 10, Angelenos were treated to Catalan violist extraordinaire Jordi Savall...
by David Maurer | Nov 30, 2009 | Classical Music and Opera |
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” is undoubtedly the most popular comic opera of all time. Gioachino Rossini’s 1816 Bel Canto-style opera buffa was the first Italian opera ever performed in America (in New York in 1825) and made its composer into a...
by David Maurer | Sep 30, 2009 | Classical Music and Opera |
Scheming dwarves, obscene fertility goddesses, floating eyeballs and comic book heroes — what more could one ask for in an evening of light entertainment? Just kidding about the light entertainment part. “Siegfried” is the third of four operas in...
by David Maurer | Sep 20, 2009 | Classical Music and Opera |
The beginning of another opera season is upon us, and LA Opera has just the thing to banish those end-of-summer, mid-recession blues — its 2009/10 season opener, “The Elixir of Love,” is a frothy funfest that is as refreshing as a lemon gelato on a...
