Free LAO Zoom Class / Rossini & Wagner
ZoomThis Week's Topic - A Tale of Two Opera Composers We will explore the careers of Rossini and Wagner up to 1850 in the context of European opera cultures—French, German, Find out more »
Da Camera Society Podcast / Ethel Smyth
PodcastPodcast forthcoming. Will announce when posted. This Da Camera Society-produced podcast explores the life and music Ethel Smyth, a composer, feminist activist and writer whose massive oratorio The Prison won the 2020 Find out more »
SFO Podcast / Cosi Fan Tutti
PodcastExploring Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutti This episode of San Francisco Opera's podcast North Stage Door takes listeners backstage to examine the dynamic 18th century duo of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Find out more »
LAO Podcast / Stravinsky’s Oedipus
PodcastIn this Behind the Curtain conversation, musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown Montesano and Dr. Arianne Helou, a dramaturg and French studies scholar, discuss "Oedipus Rex," composed by Igor Stravinsky to a Find out more »
Pre-Concert Livestream / Yefim Bronfman
LivestreamLa Jolla Music Society livestreams their featured artist, Yefim Bronfman presenting a program of Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin. As context for tonight's program, Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano presents a pre-concert lecture Find out more »
Zoom Course / Interwar Period Musical Culture
ZoomDr. Kristi Brown-Montesano will guide LA Opera Board members through an exploration of music from the interwar period (1919—1939), an era that witnessed an astonishing variety of aesthetic and stylistic Find out more »
LA Opera Blog / Women’s History Month
For Women's History Month this year, the LA Opera's community engagement theme is "Choose to Challenge." I am honored to announce LA Opera invited me to this important discussion a Find out more »
Zoom Course / Music Between the Wars
ZoomThe Colburn Community School invites you to join Colburn Conservatory of Music’s Chair of Music History and Literature Kristi Brown-Montesano in an exploration of music from the interwar period (1919—1939), Find out more »
LA Opera for Educators / Women of Don Giovanni
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United StatesDon Giovanni. This infamous rake poses interesting challenges for audiences in the #MeToo era. And certainly K-12 educators are conscious of those issues as they introduce this Mozart classic to Find out more »
Zoom Course / Exploring Beethoven’s Ninth
ZoomBeethoven's Ninth is iconic. But why does it persist as a cultural touchstone, well into the 21st century? This is my inaugural Zoom course for the Colburn Community School. So Find out more »