by Kristi | Feb 23, 2022
Beatrice Rana, known for ferocious technique and musical intelligence, presents a program on laughter and lessons from the “City of Lights.” In her delightful La Jolla Music Society program, Rana explores the city where Chopin, Debussy, and Stravinsky all... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
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... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
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...