Until now, Jules Massenet’s “Thaïs” had never been staged by LA Opera. The production that opened May 16 is such a...
Review: Gustavo Dudamel and Joshua Bell Perform Mozart and Sibelius
Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil served up a lunchtime plate of musical treats by Mozart and Sibelius on May 16....
Review: Chamber Music Palisades Premieres Adrienne Albert’s ‘Cuban Stories’
Chamber Music Palisades celebrated the conclusion of its 17th season on May 6 with a world premiere of its newly...
Review: Pacific Opera Project’s ‘La Calisto’
Ribald is the single word I would choose to describe Pacific Opera Project’s latest undertaking, a reworking of the...
Review: Lang Lang Performs Prokofiev With Dudamel and the LA Phil
On Saturday night, Gustavo Dudamel led the LA Phil in a concert featuring four works: Valses nobles et sentimentales...
Review: Dudamel Conducts Emanuel Ax in Brahms and Andrew Norman World Premiere
On Saturday night, Emanuel Ax concluded his five-month-long Brahms Project with a performance of Brahms’ Piano...
Review: LA Phil Chamber Music Society Performs Mozart
The April 29 closing program of the LA Phil Chamber Music Society cut across a wide range of Mozart styles and...
Review: LACO Westside Connections With Richard Montoya
Performance artist and satirist Richard Montoya brought his pointed history of Chavez Ravine and Dodger Stadium to the...
Review: LA Opera’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’
To composer Gaetano Donizetti, Scotland was a mysterious realm of forbidding landscapes and fierce tribes, no less...