The Battered Brides
Ina Kringelborn and Vincent Wolfsteiner Photo: Wolfgang Silveri/Komishe Oper Berlin 2011With so much of the standard opera repertory consisting of works composed over a century ago, the omnipresence of...
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Richard Chamberlin stars in The Exorcist Photo: Michael Lamont/Geffen Playhouse 2012William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel The Exorcist and the subsequent 1973 film adaptation by William Friedkin is perhaps...
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Brigitte Geller, Dmitry Ivashchenko, Karolina Gumos Photo: Forster/Komische Opera Berlin 2012The 20th-century revival of interest in Baroque operas has, more or less, resulted in two types of...
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Robert Foxworth as Henry Drummond, Bob Pescovitz as Judge and Adrian Sparks as Matthew Harrison Brady Photo by Henry DiRocco/Old Globe 2012The summer theater season is in full swing in San Diego where...
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Mariusz Kwiecien and William Burden Photo by Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera 2012Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger is one of those operas that upon hearing it for the first time you are perplexed as to why you...
View ArticleNOW Voyagers
From Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad Photo: Poor Dog GroupAttention! There is life for live performance in Los Angeles outside of the Hollywood Bowl. So get out of the heat and get ready for three...
View ArticleBig Ideas. Now.
Jessica Emmanuel in Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad Photo: Steven Gunther/REDCAT 2012The ninth edition of REDCAT’s New Original Works festival kicked off on Thursday. And if the opening weekend of...
View ArticleOn Second Thought
Luca Pisaroni as Maometto II Photo : Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera 2012Which are more important: first thoughts or last words? It’s a question opera lovers pore over with glee in regards to many of the art...
View ArticleGreyscale
Erin Wall and Mark Delavan Photo: Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera 2012Santa Fe Opera premiered the fifth and final production of its 2012 summer festival season on Saturday, Strauss’ Arabella. Strauss’...
View ArticleDance to Remember
Jinku Kim's Untitled Photo: Steven Gunther/REDCAT 2012The second week of REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival arrived last weekend with a lot of dance on its mind. Of course given the venue and the...
View ArticleWhat You Will
Erika Rolfsrud, Caitlin Muelder, T. Ryder Smith and Lucas Caleb Rooney in God of Carnage Photo by Henry DiRocco/Old Globe 2012Summer is turning out to be the season for comedies in San Diego....
View ArticleDuking it Out
Željko Lucic as Rigoletto in a promotional photo for The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming new porduction for the 2012-2013 season Photo: Nick Heavican/Met Oper The always sluggish Hollywood Bowl summer...
View ArticleBrighten the Corners
Heather Woodbury Photo: Steven Gunther/REDCAT 2012The final week of REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival was perhaps the strongest evening of this year’s shows, all of which featured the newest and...
View ArticleThose 60s Shows
Jack Willis and LBJ and Kenajuan Bentley as MLK. Photo by Jenny Graham/OSF 2012It was rather a perfect weekend in Ashland, Oregon, with comfortable, clear summer weather and a slate of particularly...
View ArticleBrush Up Your Shakespeare
Gina Daniels and David Kelly in The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa. Photo by T. Charles Erickson/OSF 2012So how is Shakespeare faring these days up in Oregon? His name is still comfortably wedged in...
View ArticleBig Night Out
Denis Matsuev. Photo by V VyatkinClassical music at the bowl never benefits from subtlety. The world-class acoustics of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s home at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the...
View ArticleIn the Wings - Sep '12
Placido Domingo stars in LA Opera's I due FoscariSeptember is already fully upon us and the Fall season is raging our way. After a particularly lazy summer here at Out West Arts, things are heating up...
View ArticleOnce Again With Feeling
Rachel Sorsa, Jayme Lake, Arsene Delay, and Melody Butiu Photo: 2012 Craig Schwartz/Getty Villa 2012Euripides’ Helen is one of those reminders that there hasn’t been anything new since antiquity. It is...
View ArticleIt Takes Two
Placido DOmingo and Marina Poplavskaya Photo: Robert Millard/LAO 2012How many Foscari does it take to screw in a light bulb? This is just one of dozens of questions left unanswered in Verdi’s I due...
View ArticleImitation of Life
Bastian Trost, Sean Patten, and Berit Stumpf; in front: Simon WillPhoto by Steven Gunther/REDCAT 2012CalArts’ downtown black box theater, REDCAT, kicked off its Fall season this weekend with another of...
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