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Italian opera festival launches at Aliso Viejo's Soka arts center
A two-year effort to bring Italian opera to south Orange County will come to fruition Wednesday with the opening of the three-night Tuscia Operafestival at the Soka Performing Arts Center in Aliso Viejo. Organizers of the festival, an annual summer event...
Tags: Culture, Concerts, Politics, Arts, Orange County High School of the Arts
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Kurt Sanderling dies at 98; admired conductor under Soviets
Kurt Sanderling, who led the Leningrad Philharmonic and the East Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Soviet rule and won admirers in the West later in his career as a guest conductor for orchestras in London, Los Angeles and elsewhere, has died. He was 98....Tags: Concerts, Obituaries, Berlin (Germany), Arts, Johannes Brahms
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U.S. champion Alissa Czisny leads ladies at Skate America
The Fabulous ForumWearing heart-shaped earrings and a sparkling rose-colored dress, perfect accessories for her music from La Vie En Rose, American Alissa Czisny skated into the lead after the ladies short program at Skate America on Saturday night. The 24-year-old, who... -
L.A. Phil, Salonen to premiere 'lost' Shostakovich opera 'Orango'
Culture MonsterEsa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the world premiere of the long-lost Shostakovich opera "Orango" at Walt Disney Concert Hall.... -
'Music Makes a City': A film about a little orchestra that could
Culture MonsterIn "Music Makes a City," a feature-length documentary opening on Friday, co-directors Owsley Brown III and Jerome Hiler offer a stirring antidote to all the negative news about struggling American orchestras. The documentary tells the dramatic and... -
'Moscow, Cherry Town': A Shostakovich to sing about
Culture MonsterDmitri Shostakovich and "wild romp" are not usually uttered in the same sentence. Yet when Long Beach Opera is talking about its next mounting, the composer's "Moscow, Cherry Town," here you have it: “This is the company's first Shostakovich,”... -
Los Angeles plays host to Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina
Culture MonsterA conversation with Soviet-born composer Sofia Gubaidulina during a break from preparations for a mini-festival in her honor in downtown L.A.... -
Long Beach Opera ends 2010 in the black -- and unveils 2011 lineup that offers 'more of the unexpected'
Culture MonsterLong Beach Opera is ending its 2010 season with a double splash. The company, which is staging Ricky Ian Gordon's swimming pool-based "Orpheus and Euridice" this weekend, is also finishing in the black -- with a 35% increase in subscribers....... -
Monster Mash: new MOCA trustees; Frick Collection expands; Indian painting sets record
Culture Monster-- Money bags: L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art gains three new trustees, including a billionaire diamond merchant. (Los Angeles Times) -- Expanding: The Frick Collection is adding a new gallery to its building. (New York Times) -- Big bucks: Christie's.... -
Ojai music director George Benjamin in a familiar spot
George Benjamin undertook his first visit to Ojai last January, but in some ways, the trip must have seemed like a homecoming for the celebrated British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. The freak storms that pounded the normally bucolic...Tags: Frank Zappa, Classical Music (genre), BBC, Germany, Arnold Schoenberg
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Dissident or not, Ismail Kadare is one of the greats
Ismail Kadare is, in many ways, among the most problematic of major writers in contemporary Western letters. But that shouldn't prevent readers from savoring "The Siege" for what it is, a significant work by an important, fascinating author. Though he...Tags: Politics, Death, Poetry, Communist Party, Albania
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This opera's drama isn't only onstage
Onstage in a UCLA auditorium, tenor Rickard Roudebush intones the solemn words of the Episcopal funeral rite: "I am the resurrection and the life. . . . He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Amen!"
A chamber opera called "The...Tags: Chubby Checker, Tito Schipa, Maria Callas, Science and Technology, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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