Concert and opera reviews from Southern California.
Sydney Mancasola gave the finest singing of the evening as Pamina…Her effortless, crystalline voice and clear, pellucid tone carried the words in the most musical and expressive way.
Read MoreThe production itself is a happy resurrection of the late Lee Blakeley's 2013 staging; it is handsome, well-crafted, sensitive, straightforward, and without an ounce of directorial pretention.
Read MoreCountertenor John Holiday as the titular pharaoh, an otherworldly figure both physically and vocally. Holiday's instrument is a marvel.
Read MoreThis new-to-L.A. production of Mozart’s rom-com Così fan tutte is at once serious, moving, and entertaining. It is also thought-provoking.
Read MoreThe large international cast are stylish in their French singing and idiomatic in conveying the French text despite not one singer is French…
Read MoreThe actions take place on a Burbank soundstage in the 1930’s,...everything appears glossy, glitzy and artfully designed, down to the Art Deco Tiffany panels that look more Hollywood than Nagasaki.
Read MoreRachel Willis-Sørensen, the Violetta, is a vivid and passionate artist, with a gleaming presence, a voice both flexible and lustrous, and strong musical and dramatic instincts.
Read MoreDelving deeper into the music and libretti, however, the connoisseur discovers both works are neither about the blackness nor the Jewishness of their respective subject matter.
Read MoreIn John Cox’ revisionist staging, portable heat lamps replaced campfire in “Fuoco di gioia”; a desk and chairs replaced Desdemona’s bed and pillows…
Read MoreRhiannon Giddens’ libretto successfully condenses Said’s book into a series of dramatic scenes that culminate in the unforgettable Act II slave auction scene…
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