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A Peek Into The Life Of Opera Tenor Vittorio Grigolo

Rehema Trimiew | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Video, Romeo and Juliet, Tenor, Vittorio Grigolo, Opera, LA Opera, You've Got, Vittorio, Los Angeles Opera, Arts News

Even though Vittorio Grigolo's new album is titled "Arrivederci," we're just getting to know him. He stopped by the studios and introduced us to anoth...

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Review: Così Fan Tutte at L.A. Opera

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Opera Review, Los Angeles Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart Opera, Mozart, LA Opera, La Around Town, James Conlon, Ashley Dean, Los Angeles News
Marc Porter Zasada

The current L.A. Opera production of Così Fan Tutte, Mozart's exquisitely problematic farce, is a special joy, and should be added it to the opera lover's not-to-be-missed list for the fall season.

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Legendary Music Man Milt Okun -- Belafonte to John Denver to Placido

Jay Weston | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Peter Paul & Mary, John Denver, Placido Domingo, Milt Okun, Harry Belafonte, Richard Sparks, Opera, Book Reviews, LA Opera, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

Along the Cherry Lane chronicles Milt Okun's life from his music school teaching days to singing and writing folk songs to working with some of the biggest names in music.

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Plan ForYourArt: May 6-10

Bettina Korek | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Britt Salvesen, Lacma, Art Catalogues, Walead Beshty, Hammer Museum, Charline Von Heyl, 1301pe, LA Opera, Orange County Museum of Art, Chris Burden, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Julie Deamer, The Island Hotel, Neutra, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

The LA Opera is presenting a city-wide musical "thank you" to Los Angeles in celebration of the quarter-century since the LA Opera's first season.

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Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patricia Racette, Benjamin Britten, Glyndebourne, Opera, LA Opera, Mark Henderson, La Around Town, Paul Brown, The Turn of the Screw, Henry James, Same-Sex Relationships, Jonathan Kent, William Burden, James Conlon, Francesca Gilpin, RODNEY PUNT, Arts News
Rodney Punt

The Turn of the Screw's LA Opera production is a game-changer. Its musical realization is first rate, allowing the work to shine as a towering masterpiece.

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Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britten, L.A. Opera, Turn of the Screw, James Conlon, Opera, Racette, LA Culture, Los Angeles News
Marc Porter Zasada

Benjamin Britten's 1954 The Turn of the Screw perfectly captured the ambiguous sexuality and perverse supernaturalism of Henry James' 1898 novel.

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Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Jonas Kaufmann, HELMUT DEUTSCH, RODNEY PUNT, LA Opera, Arts News, Dichterliebe, Arts News
Rodney Punt

Sometimes you get the impression that Jonas Kaufmann is a tenor working his way into a Heldenbaritone. OK, that's an exaggeration.

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WATCH: What To Watch: Top Operas To See Before They Close

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera Nixon in China, Nixon in China Opera, German Opera, Boris Godunov, Italian Opera, Dallas Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Washington National Opera, Slidepollajax, LA Opera, Nixon in China, Hercules, Arts News

Around the country, opera companies are looking to the end of their 2010 - 2011 seasons and have begun announcing their 2011-2012 slates. But, before ...

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Rigoletto With a Touch of the Surreal

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Conlon, LA Opera, GIANLUCA TERRANOVA, Mark Lamos, MARK MCCULLOUGH, George Gagnidze, RODNEY PUNT, Michael Yeargan, SARAH COBURN, Arts News
Rodney Punt

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Highlights This Week: Simpsons, Smithson, and Sopranos

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Il Postino, Zapokane Poland, Art World, Flight of the Conchords, Slidepollajax, LA Opera, Placido Domingo, The Simpsons, Spiral Jetty, Chamber Music, Arts News

This week, HuffPost's Arts page watched as Flight of the Conchords and The Simpsons came together for some deserved art-world-mockery, our bloggers se...

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LA Opera's World Premiere Of Il Postino: Domingo's Enduring, Endearing Dominion

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JENNIFER TIPTON, Il Postino, CHARLES CASTRONOVO, DANIEL CATÁN, PLÁCIDO DOMINGO, Ron Daniels, GRANT GERSHON, RODNEY PUNT, AMANDA SQUITIERI, LA Opera, Los-Angeles-Culture, Arts News
Rodney Punt

Photo: Robert Millard Il Postino (The Postman) Music and libretto by Daniel Catán Conductor, Grant Gershon Director, Ron Daniels Scenery and costum...

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Clap Between Movements: Poland, LA and Vienna

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruckner, Music Festivals, Daniel Catan, Vienna Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka-Salonen, Classical Music, Chamber Music Festival, Poland, Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, Gustavo Dudamel, Chamber Music, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

Zakopane, Poland, September 19-25 On the Heights: A Chamber Music Festival Dedicated to the memory of Mieczysław Karłowicz whose music resides alo...

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Sing To Me: Opera In Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, And London

Nicole Campoy-Leffler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Il Postino, Mozart, Teatro Colon, Opera, Royal Opera House, LA Opera, Placido Domingo, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Buenos Aires, Cosi Fan Tutte, Jules Massenet, London, Manon, Arts News
Nicole Campoy-Leffler

IL POSTINO WHO: LA Opera WHAT:Il Postino, music by Daniel Catan WHEN: September 23 - October 16, 2010 WHERE: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Gran...

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Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Wilson Kabuki, Opera, Drama, Sante Fe, Theater, John Crosby, Puccini, LA Opera, Madame Butterfly, Santa-Fe-Opera, Arts News
Rodney Punt

The plot could not be simpler: American naval officer jilts Japanese wife who later commits suicide. But Puccini's Madame Butterfly was not at all easy to compose, nor initially to stage.

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Bassoonist Steinmetz Tells All About LA Opera's Ring

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Steinmetz, Achim Freyer, Bassoon, LA Opera, James Conlon, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

In keeping with their appearance, bassoonists are among the most intellectual members of the modern symphony orchestra.

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Ring Festival LA: The Legacy

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: c3, Youth Chamber Orchestra, Gangsta Wagner, Ring Festival LA, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, LA Opera, Barry Sanders, Arts News
Barry A. Sanders

This is my final post on Ring Festival LA, a festival that gave birth to a spirit of community collaboration that will continue for years to enliven Los Angeles' cultural scene.

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Festivals Within a Festival

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Opera, Ring, Barry Sanders, Events, Verdi Chorus, Ring Festival LA, Das Liebesverbot, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles News
Barry A. Sanders

Ring Festival LA is in swing. Cinephiles and connoisseurs of the unusual will not be disappointed in upcoming Festival events.

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Buy LA Opera Stock

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Achim Freyer, LA Opera, Placido Domingo, James Conlon, Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

Just about the time the Lakers hit training camp this fall, LA Opera will return from the outer space of Achim Freyer's Ring cycle and launch a blockbuster new season.

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VOICES THIS WEEK: Marina Cashdan, Barry A. Sanders, Victoria Lautman, Carine Fabius

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obituaries, Obituary, LA Opera, La-Opera-Ring-Cycle, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Public Art, Wagner's "Ring, Chicago Art, Arts News

THE TWILIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL by Barry A. Sanders The final notes of Gotterdammerung sounded on Saturday evening. Fittingly, the Wagner Society of Sou...

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LA's Ring, the Whole Thing: Going for the Gold and Then Some

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contemporary Pop Culture, Neo-Expressionism, LA Opera, Avant-Garde Puppetry, Bertolt Brecht, Wagner's "Ring, Protest Rallies, " Achim Freyer, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

It's all over now, including the shouting. Three cycles of Wagner's tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen, performed over a month of marathons, courtesy of the Los Angeles Opera.

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The Twilight of the Festival

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Achim Freyer, Goethe Institute, LA Opera, Lacma, The Ring, Ring Festival LA, Gotterdammerung, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Barry A. Sanders

The final Ring Festival LA symposium and performance concluded on Sunday. The Opera's performances were as beautiful and exciting as we had hoped during all the years of their preparation.

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A Different Kind of Festival

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ring, Classical, Rich Capparela, Ring Festival LA, Plácido Domingo, Kusc, Achim Freyer, LA Opera, Barry Sanders, Los Angeles News
Barry A. Sanders

It only makes sense that a celebration such as Ring Festival LA would put a creatively different twist on festivities taking place in the "Creative Capital of the World."

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Ring Around Los Angeles

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Die Walkure, Gotterdammerung, Ring Festival LA, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, Richard Wagner, Arts, LA Opera, Barry Sanders, Los Angeles News
Barry A. Sanders

LA Opera's visionary production of The Ring in June not only marks the first time this monumental masterpiece will be presented in LA, but it also creates a great opportunity.

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OPERA: Pop Critic Takes On The 'Ring'

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Opera, The Ring, Gotterdammerung, Arts News

"Singing is physical elasticity, nothing else," wrote the German vocal teacher Franzisca Martienssen-Lohmann in 1923. Her description was prosaic, mea...

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Plan ForYourArt June 17-19

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, Judy Fiskin, Billboards, Urban Planning, ACE Gallery, Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Achim Freyer, L.A. Opera, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Architecture, Mak Center, Dingbat, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

THURSDAY, JUNE 17 How Many Billboards? Closing Reception MAK Center (West Hollywood) 7-9pm The closing reception for How Many Billboards? the public ...

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