by Julie Riggott | Oct 28, 2016 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
“Art music” is a coded phrase for music that most people would consider strange, offbeat or eccentric. Mark Abel’s first opera, Home Is a Harbor is all those things, but in a good way, mostly. This California-based composer has a unique sound that blends many...
by Julie Riggott | Oct 17, 2016 | Theater and Dance |
What’s enra, you ask? Enra is a visual/dance ensemble from Japan that creates stunning digital animation-based performances. The members are experts in martial arts, gymnastics, ballet, animation dance, juggling and street dance. They’re not exactly obscure: enra...
by Julie Riggott | Oct 14, 2016 | Classical Music and Opera |
How perfect that LA Opera programmed “Macbeth” during the Halloween season. (I say season because we all know that Halloween is not relegated to just one day in Los Angeles; it’s an event on the scale of Christmas.) Shakespeare and Verdi gave us the witches and...
by Julie Riggott | Oct 12, 2016 | Theater and Dance |
Madeline Leavitt’s Voices Carry Inc. will present the world premiere of Strings Attached. Strings Attached is a multidisciplinary project, involving contemporary dance, abstract puppetry, an original score and performance art. Strings Attached continues...
by Julie Riggott | Sep 30, 2016 | Classical Music and Opera |
The Lyris Quartet will perform four world premieres by Billy Childs, Bruce Broughton, Kurt Rohde and Peter Knell alongside the work that inspired them — Leoš Janáček’s Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” — at a concert for the enterprising contemporary music series...
