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Emmanuelle Haïm Leads a Memorable Performance of Three Baroque Masters

02/12/201726/11/2017 by Douglas Dutton

United StatesUnited States Purcell, Bach, Pergolesi: Laura Claycomb (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (countertenor), Los Angeles Philharmonic / Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 17.11.2017. (DLD)

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Time Considered in William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour

28/11/201721/11/2017 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Philip Miller, Refuse the Hour: Various soloists, performers and musicians / Adam Howard (conductor), UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 18.11.2017. (JRo)

Refuse the Hour (c) John Hodgkiss

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Les Arts Florissants’ Chaste, Glorious Beauties Lost at Disney Hall

11/11/201708/11/2017 by Laurence Vittes

United StatesUnited States Charpentier, Purcell: Laureates of Le Jardin des Voix, Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (harpsichord and conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 7.11.2017. (LV)

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Muti’s Chicagoans Deliver Superb Brahms in Walt Disney Concert Hall

30/10/201727/10/2017 by Douglas Dutton

United StatesUnited States Brahms: Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Muti (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 22.10.2017. (DD)

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Dazzling Sounds from South of the Border

27/10/201723/10/2017 by Douglas Dutton

United StatesUnited States CDMX: New Music from Mexico – Guzmán, Waller, Castaños, Naranjo, Syrse: LA Phil New Music Group / Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 17.10.2017. (DLD)

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Akram Kahn’s Mythic World Unfolds in Until the Lions

25/10/201720/10/2017 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Vincenzo Lamagna, Until the Lions: Akram Kahn (choreographer) and dancers, Culver Studios, Los Angeles, 18.10.2017. (JRo)

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Until the Lions (c) Jean Louis Fernandez

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LA Opera at Its Finest: Verdi’s Nabucco

18/10/201716/10/2017 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Verdi, Nabucco: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera/James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 14.10.2017. (JRo)

 Liudmyla Monastyrska as Abigaille in Nabucco. Photo: Ken Howard/LA Opera.
Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille) (c) Ken Howard/LA Opera

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The Pearl Fishers Reimagined

12/10/201709/10/2017 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Bizet, The Pearl Fishers: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / Plácido Domingo (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 7.10.2017. (JRo)

The Pearl Fishers  Photo Ken Howard
The Pearl Fishers (c) Ken Howard

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