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May is Opera Month in Los Angeles From the traditional to the avant-garde The operas playing in Southern California include: LA Opera’s Herb Ross production of La Bohème opening May 12 starring Stephen Costello and Ailyn Perez Conducted by Patrick Summers LA Opera. 135 North Grand Ave. Los…
Read MoreBackstage 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…
Read MoreMikhail 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…
Read MoreMikhail 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…
Read MoreHerb 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…
Read MoreAPHRODITE 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 MoreBallet 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…
Read MoreAhh.. 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…
Read MoreLos 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…
Read Moreby 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…
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