Los Angeles, a town that knows how to party, dubbed the third Saturday of February 2011 as the first day of an All-Star Weekend, because the City of the Angels was chosen as the site of the 2011 National Basketball Association All-Star Game. The Big Game was to be played at the Staples Center, just [...]
Entries from February 2011
Partying in L. A.: Machaidze, Gavanelli Romp in All-Star “Turco in Italia” – Los Angeles Opera, February 19, 2011
February 21st, 2011
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Best Bet Revivals of Opera Productions in California – 2011
February 14th, 2011
Over the past five and half years, in my reviews of opera performances, I have identified certain productions as particularly worthy of revival, and periodically list opera companies that have scheduled such revivals (in many cases, the first time the production has been mounted at that company). In the past I identified seven productions as [...]
Tags: Quests and Anticipations
Pharoah Akhnaten, King Tut’s Dad, Flees Egypt and Lands at Long Beach Opera
February 11th, 2011
Southern California opera lovers are in for a real treat coming up March 19 and 27, 2011 at Long Beach Opera which presented a smashing “Nixon in China” a year before its much heralded debut at the Met this month in New York City ! [Below: the Pharoah Akhnaten; resized image, based on a photograph of [...]
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