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Review: Pacific Opera Project’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ at the Aratani Theatre

The libretto for Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” is in Italian, but the characters are American and Japanese. What if,...

On Sunday night the American organist Cameron Carpenter wowed and dazzled what one organ series subscriber called the...

Though commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II in Prague in 1791, and based on Titus Flavius...

This past weekend, Gustavo Dudamel undertook the Herculean task of conducting Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 in D...

One doesn’t often get the chance to hear a performance by a First Prize winner and Gold Medalist of the International...

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding) [Harmonia Mundi] – British conductor Daniel...

When desert island music is mentioned to us mere mortals, we think of music we’d like to hear. But not so for the...

Pacific Opera Project opens its 2019 season with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” as you’ve never seen it before — set in...

A Russian in Italy, a Hungarian in Florida and a Mexican in California. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s latest...