My presentation for this special Turandot seminar—an initiative of LA Opera Connects—will set the opera in the context of Puccini’s Italy and highlight significant stylistic elements in the composer’s final work, still incomplete when he died. Crafted...
Part of the LAO’s “Opera for Educators” seminars, this particular event aims to educate—and inspire—K-12 teachers about ways to incorporate opera into their lesson plans. My presentation, “Fairy Tales, Opera, and the Art of Retelling,” will consider...
Los Angeles Opera presents a double feature of neglected one-act operas : Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (The Dwarf, 1922) and William Grant Still’s Highway 1, USA, which was first completed in 1946, but had to wait nearly two decades for its premiere. My...
Presented by Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the evening is an exciting introduction for the 2024 Laguna Beach Music Festival which will feature esteemed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. I will be acting as musicological co-host with...
I’m delighted to be an Invited Speaker at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego! And I’m revisiting one of my favorite topics: Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. When Bach published the “Goldberg” Variations in...
