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Jane Rosenberg

Madame Butterfly meets Hollywood film set at the LA Opera

26/10/202423/09/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Puccini, Madame Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 21.9.2024. (JRo)

Jonathan Tetelman (Pinkerton) and Karah Son (Cio-Cio-San) © Cory Weaver

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In Los Angeles, Ballet Hispánico’s Doña Perón traces the life of Evita

17/07/202417/07/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Salem, Ochoa, Doña Perón: Dancers of Ballet Hispánico / Ahmed Alon (conductor). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 14.7.2024. (JRo)

Ballet Hispánico’s Doña Perón © Paula Lobo

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An eye-popping Turandot at the LA Opera 

04/06/202420/05/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 18.5.2024. (JRo)

Ryan Wolfe (Ping), Terrence Chin-Loy (Pang) and Julius Ahn (Pong) © Cory Weaver

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James Conlon conducts a ravishing La traviata in Los Angeles

23/04/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 21.4.2024. (JRo)

Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Violetta) and Lipartit Avetisyan (Alfredo) © Cory Weaver

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Book of Mountains and Seas – a poetic evocation of Chinese creation myths in Los Angeles

15/04/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Huang Ruo, Book of Mountains and Seas: Artists of Ars Nova Copenhagen / Miles Lallemant (conductor). BroadStage, Santa Monica, 13.4.2024. (JRo)

A scene from Book of Mountains and Seas © Steven Pisano

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Two rarely performed works at LA Opera: Highway 1, USA and The Dwarf

06/03/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States William Grant Still, Highway 1, USA & Alexander Zemlinsky, The Dwarf: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 3.3.2024. (JRo)

LA Opera’s 2024 production of Highway 1, USA © Cory Weaver

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A startling re-creation of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring in Los Angeles

13/02/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring and Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo’s common ground[s]: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 11.2.2024. (JRo)

Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring © Maarten Vanden Abeele

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Christmas is All Around: Love Actually Live in Beverly Hills

19/12/2023 by Jim Pritchard

United StatesUnited States Love Actually Live (after the movie by Richard Curtis, adapted by Anderson Davis): The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 17.12.2023. (JRo)

Rex Smith (Billy Mack) © Rob Latour

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