Those familiar with the Oscar-winning film Amadeus will remember the beginning where aging composer Antonio Salieri...
Review: LA Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’
Watching virtually any production of Madame Butterfly outside of high school productions requires some suspension of...
Review: Pacific Opera Project’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Ebell Club of Highland Park
Can a two-horse mining town in the Old West peopled with provincial rubes stand in for the rarified world of Parisian...
Review: Yundi Plays an All-Chopin Program at Disney Hall
Yundi, formerly known as Yundi Li, propelled to stardom in 2000 after being the youngest (and the first Chinese)...
Review: ‘Tempest Redux’ at Odyssey Theatre
It is said that Shakespeare’s The Tempest is one of the most adaptable of the Bard’s works. Indeed, some 46 operas...
Review: Daniil Trifonov at Walt Disney Concert Hall
The young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov returned to Los Angeles on Friday night, this time in a solo recital at Walt...
Pianist Fuzjko Hemming Performs Benefit Recital at Zipper Concert Hall
Japanese-Swedish pianist Fuzjko Hemming, whose debut album at the age of 69 sold more than 2 million copies, will...
Review: Daniel Harding and Emanuel Ax With the LA Phil
Apparently, there are a lot of very promising young conductors on the classical music scene; and the LA Phil certainly...
CD Review: Honeck and the PSO Perform Beethoven
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have done it again. They have produced fresh and exciting...