Entertainment & Arts
As Macbeth’s fate begins to catch up with him, the king in Los Angeles Opera’s 31st season opener cannot look forward to having earned honor, love or compassion.
Sept. 18, 2016
Kirov Opera singers give a dramatic and dynamic performance in the expanded venue.
Oct. 18, 2006
Standing onstage on the Music Center Plaza, the L.A.
Sept. 19, 2016
Sept. 4, 2017
Music
Problems and complaints are quickly set aside. In Los Angeles Opera’s stagings of ‘Das Rheingold’ and ‘Die Walküre,’ the beauty and spectacle take over.
June 1, 2010
Critic’s Notebook: A fresh start for the ‘Ring’ cycle
Culture Monster Blog
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Sept. 18, 2011
Conducting 101
June 2, 2009
June 1, 2009
Books
In the manner of Pushkin beginning his “Golden Cockerel” (“Somewhere, some time long since gone/Lived the glorious Tsar Dadon. . . .”), Donald Harington lets us know from the first sentence that we are to be in a world where art is at least as important as reality: “Ekaterina you were, and you were not at all.
July 18, 1993