The privileged class, to say the least, hated it. France’s Louis XVI banned if for three year, stating, […]
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It’s no wonder that Puccini’s legendary three-act Tosca is of the most performed operas in the world. The […]
LA Opera’s audacious new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor rockets the Bel Canto masterpiece from 18th-century […]
Who would have thought that Elizabeth Taylor and Verdi had something in common? Apparently, both demanded an exorbitant […]
Music and theater traditions blend in a unique production of St Matthew Passion at the LA Opera. Conducted […]
What, you may ask, would the classic Cinderella tale be without the Fairy Godmother, pumpkin carriage, midnight curfew, […]
Richard Wagner’s epic opera about the timeless struggle between profane and sacred love unfurled at the L.A. Opera […]
Verdi’s Il Trovatore proves there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing. After a painful […]
When Gaetano Donizetti composed Roberto Devereux — the third and last of his operas featuring Queen Elizabeth I […]
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice fits nicely into the most conventional plot line of all: Boy meets […]
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