Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
For all the work’s virtues, the main reason that Los Angeles Opera has mounted a production of Handel’s “Tamerlano” is that tenor Plácido Domingo recently added the role of Bajazet to his repertory. Bajazet is not the title character, but...
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
REVIEW: Placido Domingo takes on the tenor role in Handel’s showpiece. The Orange County Register, Nov. 22, 2009. SEE SLIDE SHOW One’s heart sinks a little when the curtain is raised on Los Angeles Opera’s production of Handel’s “Tamerlano,” which opened Saturday for five performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. It’s one of those minimalist, modernist...
Aria Serious? (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The LA Times Culture Monster is reporting the Los Angeles Opera has commissioned a new opera called the "11o Project" - an opera inspired by the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles.According to the Monster:"The 110 Project" tells the story of four central characters as it travels through 70 years of L.A. history starting with the birth of the space program in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco in 1939...
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
White House ready to showcase classical music (AP) WASHINGTON — “After showcasing jazz, country and Latin music, the White House is going classical next week. The Nov. 4 lineup for an evening concert in the East Room includes Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell, Grammy-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Awadagin Pratt. Earlier in the day, the White House...
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The lobby of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center downtown stood in for the Rome Hilton, circa early 1960s, on a recent episode of "Mad Men." Spotted by...
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
By Thoreau We just got back from seeing Siegfried at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. I can’t claim to have discriminating taste in music, I wasn’t one of the guys walking out critiquing the different vocalists. I just know that I liked the singing OK and the orchestra a lot, and it was visually appealing. More importantly, [...]
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
LA Live has been home to a music awards show (the American Music Awards), a television awards show (the Emmys), and the ESPYs, but now it's finally nabbed the big prize--a movie awards show. Los Angeles Business Journal reports the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards will be held in a tent on the downtown site's event deck, For several years the indie movie awards have been held in a tent on the beach...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
David Arrieta, 14, snuggled up in a sleeping bag outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion just after 6 p.m. There was no time to waste. He was hurriedly trying to finish his algebra homework before Gustavo Dudamel appeared on the screen...
The Opera Tattler (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
One could not help but notice that the Rome of the television series Mad Men took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the home of Los Angeles Opera. Culture Monster | Music Center | LA Opera
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Just in time for Halloween, the Los Angeles Opera distributed a press release today announcing their first ever costume sale. Over 2500 costume pieces will go sale this Saturday, October 10 from 10:00AM to 6:00PM. Pieces for sale will include everything ranging from complete “merry peasant” and “medieval courtier” costumes to individual pieces such as capes, hats, shoes [...]...
The Opera Tattler (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Los Angeles Opera is having a costume sale this Saturday from 10am until 6pm. The sale will be in the parking lot of Costume Shop at 330 South Alameda Street in Los Angeles. San Francisco Opera is having a similar...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The title hero of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" is often described as a Nietzschean Superman, but the singer who plays him is only human. During Sunday's matinee performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, British tenor John Treleaven twisted his ankle while...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
American baritone Thomas Hampson is singing of a “dusky woman,” with a “woolly-white and turban’d head, and bare bony feet.” That woman is not the usual Romantic figure extolled in lieder recitals, and that’s Hampson’s point. The woman is a...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Even across town from the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel was the focus of attention. On the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, baritone Thomas Hampson led into the final encore of his 24-Lieder and American song recital thanking the audience...
Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Composer Unsuk Chin will have a U.S. Premiere with the L.A. PhilharmonicOctober’s performing arts calendar is packed full with all kinds of interesting tidbits. But before we get started I should note two shows that opened in September, which are still running and should be high on your priority list if you haven’t seen them yet. The first is Los Angeles Opera’s new production of...
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