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Opera Review: Domingo Sings One More for the Road

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Bejun Mehta, Placido Domingo, Handel's Tamerlano, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

Creatures of creative habit -- say, Placido Domingo, Woody Allen, Philip Roth -- do not let numbers stand in their way. How many opera roles? How many movies? How many novels?

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Flowers for Florez

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pavarotti, Broad Stage, Los Angeles Opera, Juan Diego Florez, Recital, Entertainment News
Donna Perlmutter

Los Angeles's opera elite massed to the walls of the Broad Stage to hear Juan Diego Florez, the celebrated Peruvian tenor.

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A Demagogue In Full Cry

Ivan Katz | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Schumann, California Politics, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Los Angeles Opera, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Mike Antonovich, Richard Wagner, Politics News
Ivan Katz

Los Angeles Supervisor Mike Antonovich has earned a place of distinction in the Pantheon of Public Stupidity.

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The Fright At The Opera

Ivan Katz | Posted 03.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, First Rule of Holes, Connecticut Opera, Baltimore Opera, Concert Opera, Virginia Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Financial Crisis, Entertainment News
Ivan Katz

Is there anything that these small opera companies can do other than throw in the towel, close the doors and blame everyone and their cousin for the failure? Of course.

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The Lords of The Fly

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Puccini, Carmen, John Gardner, Woody Allen, Ruxandra Donose, Theatre Du Chatelet, John Goldenthal, Across the Universe, The Fly, Nicholas & Alexandra, Howard Shore, Vincent Price, Beowulf, Deborah Drattell, William Friedkin, The Fly II, Jeff Goldblum, Madame Butterfly, Dante Ferretti, Batman Forever, George Langelaan, The Lion King, Ann Bogart, The Magic Flute, Return of the Fly, Lost in Space, Michael Collins, Opera, The Phantom of the Opera, Verdi, Playboy, Placido Domingo, David Cronenberg, Mozart, David Henry Hwang, La Boehme, Il Trittico, Beethoven, Julie Tamor, Daniel Okulitch, Heat, Geena Davis, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, The Lord of the Rings, Grendel, Berlioz, Los Angeles Opera, Frida, Aida, Rasputin, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The production contained some pre-requisites for the medium -- a tragic storyline that centered around love, sex and three principles, making it a theoretical candidate for an operatic treatment.

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