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Backstage at LA Opera: the scene behind the scene….
Backstage at LA Opera: Sneak Preview of La Bohème By Leticia Marie Sanchez All text and photography ©2012 Life Imitates Art, and art imitates life in LA Opera’s upcoming production of La Bohème. In Puccini’s opera about bohemian Paris, the two young lovers, Rodolfo and Mimi, will be played by real life married couple Stephen Costello and Ailyn Pérez.The operatic…
Read MoreCultural Picks- the best of ballet in LA this April
Mikhail Baryshnikov! The choreographer from Black Swan! This week, LA gets a double-dose of ballet Enjoy this week’s Cultural Cocktail Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève April 13-15 Dorothy Chandler Pavillion North American premieres of Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose as well as Amoveo, Choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, former New York City Ballet principal dancer and…
Read MoreCultural Cocktail Hour’s- Top 3 picks for August in LA
Mikhail Baryshnikov! The choreographer from Black Swan! This week, LA gets a double-dose of ballet Enjoy this week’s Cultural Cocktail Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève April 13-15 Dorothy Chandler Pavillion North American premieres of Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose as well as Amoveo, Choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, former New York City Ballet principal dancer and…
Read MoreCultural Picks LA: April 7-8
Herb Ritts: L.A. Style April 3-Aug 26 Getty Center. West Pavillion 1200 Getty Center Drive. LA, CA. 90049. (310) 440-7300 http://www.getty.edu/ Cellist John Walz & Pianist Robert Thies—Free Concert Sun, April 8th 6 pm Brahms: Sonata in F major; Debussy: Sonata for Cello & Piano. Bing Theater. No reservations needed. LACMA. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles…
Read MoreCultural Pick for LA- weekend of March 30th
APHRODITE and the Gods of Love opens March 28 Getty Villa. 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA. (310) 440-7300 http://www.getty.edu/
Read MoreLA Cultural Pick: March 23-25
Ballet Preljocaj – Snow WhiteMarch 23-25Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 135 North Grand Ave. LA, CA, 90012 With costumes by Jean Paul Gautier and the music of Gustav Mahler, this performance is likely to sell out soon. For information on tickets, please call (213) 972-0711 or visit http://www.musiccenter.org/
Read MoreIn the news: Riccardo Muti’s eyes “threw daggers” after fisticuffs erupted at the Chicago Symphony
Ahh.. Brahms.. The music of soothing lullabies, sleeping babies, and…fist fights? This month, while the illustrious Riccardo Muti conducted Brahms Symphony No. 2 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a young man turned the exclusive box seats into a tawdry Fight Club. The 30-ish man punched a 67-year-old man in the face, in an apparent dispute over the correct…
Read MoreCultural Events LA: Weekend of March 17th
Los Angeles Ballet presents Swan Lake March 17. 7:30 p.m. Alex Theatre. 216 North Brand Boulevard.Glendale, CA 91203 310.998.7782 http://www.losangelesballet.org PIATIGORSKY INTERNATIONAL CELLO FESTIVAL: Maisky plays Shostakovich March 17 8:00 PM Los Angeles Philharmonic. Neeme Järvi, conductor;Mischa Maisky, cello. Dvorák: Carnival Overture; Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Walt Disney Concert Hall. 111 S. Grand Ave. LA, CA USA…
Read MoreIn the news: Art detectives possibly discover lost mural by…Leonardo Da Vinci?
by Leticia Marie Sanchez Art researchers in Florence claim to have found a strong clue that a mural entitled The Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo Da Vinci lies hidden in a wall of Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Art detectives, led by Maurizio Seracini, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, drilled tiny holes in a fresco by Giorgio Vasari…
Read MoreCultural Events LA weekend of March 10
LA. Theatre Works & The James Bridges Theater present a National Theatre Live broadcast Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors HD film Screening at UCLA Sun.March 11, 4 pm Stand up-comedian Lenny Henry stars as Antipholus of Syracuse.James Bridges Theater. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television 235 Charles E. Young Dr. LA, CA 90095. For information on purchasing tickets, please call 310-827-0889 or…
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