LAO Podcast / Stravinsky’s Oedipus

LAO Podcast / Stravinsky’s Oedipus

In 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 libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the ancient Greek...
Zoom Course / Interwar Period Musical Culture

Zoom Course / Interwar Period Musical Culture

Dr. 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 developments in western Classical music. Lectures will delve into...