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London opera companies' 'crisis' is others' envy
LONDON — The editor of Opera is worried. The March editorial of Britain's leading opera monthly describes this city's opera scene as being in crisis. The city's major companies — Royal Opera and English National Opera — are in a...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Culture, Concerts, Arts
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Looking for opera inspiration
Like every other form of art, operas can be inspired by just about anything — historical events, myths, epic poems, plays, even movies. Often, such operas go on to eclipse their inspiration. Puccini's "Tosca," derived from a play by Victorien...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Music, Doubt (movie), Arts and Culture, Meryl Streep
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Review: 'Fallen Angels' an irresistible romp at Pasadena Playhouse
Shrug off that fur, have a cocktail and dish the dirt with “Fallen Angels,” Art Manke’s irresistible production of a rarely seen Noel Coward comedy, now at the Pasadena Playhouse. Given the play’s fascination with female...
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Classical music's spring brings festivals and much more
Spring is, as always, a season for festivals. The big one in Los Angeles this year is the ongoing celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, initiated by Los Angeles Opera. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's weeklong Brooklyn Festival in...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Jean Nouvel, Duke Ellington, Culture
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L.A. Phil announces 2013-14 season: From Amadeus to Zappa
The music will range from A to Z -- Amadeus to Zappa, that is -- when the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates its 10th anniversary season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2013-14. In marking the occasion, the Phil also will attempt both to look back at...
Tags: Ceremonies, Music, Arts and Culture, Jean Nouvel, Pritzker Architecture Prize
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James Conlon plans to stay at the Los Angeles Opera through 2018
James Conlon is a born and bred New Yorker but sunny Los Angeles apparently agrees with him. The 62-year-old conductor has renewed his contract with the Los Angeles Opera for five more years, and will remain music director at least through the end of the...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Queens (New York City), James Conlon
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I yam what I yam -- but is it art?
One of the biggest problems in our politics is that people don't think for themselves. We let radio and television hosts, pundits and politicians tell us what to believe. And one of the biggest problems in our arts is that people don't enjoy for...
Tags: Philosophy, Arts and Culture, Arts, Religion and Belief, Vin Diesel
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For David Henry Hwang's 'Chinglish,' a case of bad timing in China
David Henry Hwang knows firsthand about the difficulties Westerners can face while doing business in China. His latest play, "Chinglish," a comedy that opened on Broadway in 2011 and is now having its local premiere at South Coast Repertory through Feb....
Tags: Bo Xilai, Arts and Culture, Hong Kong, China, Gu Kailai
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Review: Caravaggio is boldly painted with music at LACMA
Caravaggio is a great subject for music. There are fascinating parallels between the way the artist helped usher in modern painting at the turn of the 17th century and the way his Italian contemporaries Monteverdi and Gesualdo laid the foundations for...
Tags: Music, Artists, Arts and Culture, Italy, Fine Artists
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Review: 'Walking the Tightrope' a delicate balance of life's stages
Delicately poised between children’s fable and adult reverie at once, only to become another transcendent thing altogether, “Walking the Tightrope” at 24th Street Theatre delivers the evocative, cathartic goods. In its pitch-perfect...
Tags: Literature, Andrew Rannells
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