When an arts institution is faced with challenging times – as nearly every presenter has been, in the wake of the COVID pandemic and its slowly resolving aftermath – business sense dictates that the ...

International Contemporary Ensemble releases Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts by George Lewis out today on New Focus Recordings/TUNDRA. Lewis's first opera, Afterword premiered in 2015 at the Museum of ...

Founded in 1883, New York’s historic Metropolitan Opera, which hired its first-ever chief diversity officer in 2021, isn’t known for being of the times. But with his focus on new commissions dealing ...

Over the past 47 years, San Diego Opera has staged Mozart’s 1787 opera “Don Giovanni” five times. The last time was in 2015, when it was presented in a minimalist production dominated by oversize ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. We caught the June 8 performance of ...

Considered Giacomo Puccini’s finest musical masterpiece, Turandot transports audiences to a fantasy land based on a Western conception of China. What does it mean to produce an opera like Turandot ...