Concert and opera reviews from Southern California.
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s “unique interpretation” of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s explosive The Rite of Spring.
Read MoreHélène Grimaud was the soloist in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G-Major. She brought her own individual stamp of crisp articulation and unsentimental phrasing to the piece
Read MoreVisually, the LA Opera production is a stunner. The grand mise-en-scène of Thaddeus Strassberger, dramatic lighting of JAX Messenger, and brilliant costumes by Mattie Ullrich all come together to evoke the classical grandeur of Ancient Rome.
Read MoreKorean lyric soprano Yunah Lee is a touching, detailed and delicate Cio-Cio-San, more adapt, perhaps, in emotional force and tragic power of Acts II and III than as a fifteen-year-old Geisha girl of Act I.
Read MoreTo Los Angeles, conductor Simone Young brought her keen sense of drama and theatricality to the music of Britten and Strauss.
Read MoreBeyond all the pomp, comedy and magic, John Williams’ music is also capable of great emotion, as evidenced in the Theme from Schindler’s Lis, played poignantly by violinist Simone Porter.
Read MoreOn January 27, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, in co-partnership with Classical KUSC, presented an evening of new and old “Mozart + Beethoven’s Fifth featuring a world premiere by Sara Gibson” at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Read MoreHubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Third Coast Percussion premiered excerpts from their collaborative works at Wallis Annenberg Center.
Read MoreZubin Mehta, still ailing in body but very much alert in spirits, gave hugely vital accounts of Brahms Symphonies No. 3 and 4.
Read MoreAvi Avital showed a dazzling exhibition of perfect pitch, precision in fretboard work and pick-strumming tremolos in a unique interpretation of the work.
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