Photo Flash: First Look at DESERT IN Operatic Miniseries
by A.A. Cristi
- May 4, 2021
“Desert in” is a groundbreaking new television miniseries that combines the talents of eight extraordinary, award-winning composers and interlocking stories from rising and veteran screenwriters.
Jessie Montgomery Curates Two LACO Close Quarters Episodes
by A.A. Cristi
- Apr 12, 2021
Jessie Montgomery, one of America's most relevant and sought-after composers, provides musical curation for two back-to-back episodes of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's lauded CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series that melds musical and visual arts premiering on Fridays, April 23 and May 7, 2021, 6:30 pm.
Long Beach Opera Announces Revised 2021 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 31, 2021
Long Beach Opera has announced a revised 2021 Season, which will include an exciting return to live opera performance in May with an immersive drive-in Phillip Glass opera, the company’s first venture into longform digital content with a world premiere operatic television series in June, and an outdoor live performance of two operas in August.
Violinist Gil Shaham Makes LACO Debut on CLOSE QUARTERS Digital Series
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 12, 2021
Gil Shaham makes a special guest appearance with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra performing Boulogne’s virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 9 in G major, on the Orchestra’s groundbreaking CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series that melds musical and visual arts.
LACO CLOSE QUARTERS Features Stravinsky's 'The Soldier's Tale'
by A.A. Cristi
- Mar 2, 2021
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's lauded digital CLOSE QUARTERS series continues with a musically and visually rich take on Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (“The Soldier's Tale”), interpreted by the musicians of LACO for 2021 and conducted by Music Director Jaime Martín.
LACO Announces 2nd Half Of CLOSE QUARTERS, Free Interdisciplinary Digital Series
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 25, 2021
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director Jaime Martín, announces the second half of its highly successful all-digital 2020-21 Season, CLOSE QUARTERS, an interdisciplinary series that melds musical and visual arts in “digitally native” programs created specifically for streaming that have garnered nearly 1 million streaming views since the series debuted last fall.
BWW Review: LUMEE'S DREAM at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin
- Jan 30, 2021
Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’ Lumee’s Dream, is the expansion of Lumee’s Act II short monologue sung while smoking outside a nightclub in p r i s m. She says she “hurls herself out the window” into the blue from which she eventually returns tired and wet. In the Dream, Lumee speaks of her favorite dream, her imagined reality.
LA Opera LUMEE'S DREAM Premieres Today
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 29, 2021
This month, LA Opera presents the premieres of new Digital Shorts from two of today's most prominent female composers, Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid. Part of the company's On Now platform of online programming, offered free of charge to viewers, Digital Shorts are new commissions which pair gifted composers and visual artists.
BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR No.43 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin
- Jan 30, 2021
The unforgettable world of Ellen Reid’s p r i s m returns to LA Opera for two weeks. This time, the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is streaming on your home screen. Composer Reid and librettist Roxie Perkins' sobering story follows a mother and daughter as they explore the trauma of sexual abuse and the elasticity of memory that follows.
BWW Review: P R I S M at Los Angeles Opera
by Maria Nockin
- Jan 29, 2021
On January 28, 2021, Los Angeles Opera streamed a newly filmed version of Roxie Perkins and Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m. An operatic tapestry, p r i s m tells of the psychological dreams, desires and struggles of Bibi, a sexual assault survivor.
BWW Review: David T. Little's Chilling Opera SOLDIER SONGS Is Reinvented for Opera Philadelphia Film
by Richard Sasanow
- Jan 24, 2021
When I interviewed David T. Little several years ago, he told me he told me that he “didn't even realize [SOLDIER SONGS] was an opera until [opera entrepreneur] Beth Morrison clued him in.” He probably didn’t realize it was a film either, until Singer-Director Johnathan McCullough brought him the idea--and Opera Philadelphia raised the funds to make it over for its new opera channel. The results are painfully spectacular.
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