Continuing their exploration of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle—in semi-staged presentation—the LA Philharmonic presents the second opera of the massive tetralogy, Die Walküre. Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and stage director Alberto Arvelo lead the production, which features...
Continuing their exploration of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle—in semi-staged presentation—the LA Philharmonic presents the second opera of the massive tetralogy, Die Walküre. Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and stage director Alberto Arvelo lead the...
I return to familiar stomping grounds—in terms of my research area—for this session of “Exploring Opera,” where I will offer an in-depth exploration of one of my fave characters: The Queen of the Night! Is she really just the typical evil woman of Disney...
Verdi’s long journey to his final opera—his only successful comic work—is a lesson in perseverance and reinvention. He was 80 years old when Falstaff premiered at La Scala in Milan, Italy—the same house where Verdi’s first work, Oberto, Count of Boniface,...
My kickoff lecture for this terrific FREE series of public lectures from LA Opera Connects will look into the musical idiom commonly labeled “minimalism” and more specifically Philip Glass’s Ahknaten, the third opera in this “Portrait...
