by Wendy Kikkert | Jun 13, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
The Pasadena Master Chorale presented one of the finest performances of Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem I have ever heard. Jeffrey Bernstein, PMC artistic director and conductor, chose the composer’s arrangement of the work accompanied by piano four-hands. In...
by Wendy Kikkert | May 12, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
On May 9, I attended the West Coast premiere of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy, based on the novel by Theodore Dreiser, libretto by Gene Scheer. The opera was presented by the Santa Monica College Opera Theater at the beautiful SMC Performing Arts Center:...
by Wendy Kikkert | Apr 28, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
Once in a while a little-known work is presented and turns out to be a pleasant surprise. Such was the case with Das Liebesverbot, an early comic opera of Richard Wagner, presented by the USC Thornton Opera as part of the LA Ring Festival. I had the opportunity to see...
by Wendy Kikkert | Mar 24, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
After a few seasons of scaled-back projects in more intimate venues, Long Beach Opera took a gamble and scored a success last weekend, opening John Adams’ first opera, Nixon in China, at the Long Beach Terrace Theater on March 20. The production boasts a...
by Wendy Kikkert | Mar 3, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
The last weekend of February I attended three different opera performances with varying degrees of scope and competency. As an opera impresario myself, let me preface my remarks by saying I believe each performance must be judged within its own context, not with the...
