With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival
Superstar Plácido Domingo pushes the company closer to worldwide acclaim and financial collapse
​Robert Millard​Finally, someone got it right. For the past year and a half, I've seen operatic and balletic love stories featuring mature performers in roles that suggest, if not emphasize, relative youth: The Giselles and the Juliets, for instance, or the hot and lusty Carmen's Don Jose, pla ... More >>
Plus, PaleyFest09 and other events to make you forget you fucked up over Leonard Cohen, April 10-16
Plus some high-brow stuff to do, February 27-March 5
David Cronenberg and Howard Shore's insect opera repels
L.A. Phil's Music from Hesperia; L.A. Opera's high C's
Messiaen's Canyons,
And Esa-Pekka Salonens final season
The best classical events of 2007
Art thou not Kent?
Czech Mates
L.A. Opera's Fidelio, Salome on DVD and Salonen’s return to the Bowl
School productions of Les Mis and Kurt Weill's Street Scene
Alfred Brendel at Disney Hall - and Alan Rich honored at City Hall
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth conducted by Stéphane Denève
Resurrecting the music of composers affected by the Holocaust
Brecht and Weill's Mahagonny returns to Los Angeles
Karl Zeller’s Der Obersteiger , Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, and Benjamin Britten’s Noah's Flood
