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05/18/2013
LA Opera On Air Begins Saturday, May 18
For the eighth consecutive year Classical KUSC brings you LA Opera On Air , Saturdays at 10am. Each week you’ll hear a complete performance from LA Opera’s 2012/13 Season , recorded live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The series is hosted by KUSC’s Duff Murphy and continues to be made...
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05/12/2013
A Backstage Look at Day 3 of Scenery Assemble
The Tosca scenery arrived from Houston in three 53-foot trucks in thousands of small pieces. It normally takes our stage crew two or three days to assemble all of the pieces into a full stage setting. With rental or incoming productions, minor repairs often have to be made due to the stress of...
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04/30/2013
Floria Tosca and the Freedom of the Artist
By John Caird Tosca is one of the greatest works of music theater ever written and its importance is undiminished a century after Puccini wrote it. Its narrative is deceptively simple. It involves the lives of three principal characters. Cavaradossi is a talented young painter earning his living ...
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04/29/2013
A Celebration with Domingo
On June 7, LA Opera will present An Evening of Spanish Zarzuela and Latin American Music , followed by the presentation of Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera’s annual Plácido Domingo Award. Plácido Domingo will perform as both singer and as conductor of the LA Opera Orchestra. Soloists include Janai...
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04/24/2013
Tosca La Latina
By William Berger Tosca drives people crazy. The opera brings out venom in people—even in people who normally digest the outrageousness of other operas with ease. Composer Benjamin Britten said he was “sickened” by the music’s “cheapness and emptiness,” and the astute critic Joseph Kerman famousl...
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