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Alan's Poppies and Sage, photographed by Paul Cabanis, Spring 2010.
Monthly Archives: September 2000
Plácidalia: The Empire Strikes Ahead
Photo by Peter Mountain First there was the promise: “Operalia,†Plácido Domingo’s contest teeming with enough spectacular young singing talent to run half a dozen opera companies. Then there was fulfillment: Aïda at long last, imperfectly sung but strongly led; … Continue reading
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The Grandeur That Was (Or Might Have Been) Egypt
Finally Aida, worth the wait if not quite worth the weight. The auspices are splendid: the 15th opening night for a company that some had predicted wouldn’t reach its second; the inaugural effort for a new artistic director, and, for … Continue reading
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Domingo/Wagner
Los Angeles, September 11. To the small but ardent hordes of compleat Wagnerites hereabouts, denied sustenance over the years – a mere two productions in 14 seasons – by the Los Angeles Opera’s favoring glances toward other repertories, this past … Continue reading
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LA OPERA “AIDAâ€
Any opera company worth its music stands, or so you’d think, would honor “Aida†as a the crown jewel in its repertory; no other opera, after all, so fully epitomizes everything embraced under the term “operatic.†Still, it has taken … Continue reading
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OPERALIA 2000
Along about nine o’clock on Tuesday night, a slender young soprano with the tongue-twisting name of Isabel Bayrakdarian – Lebanese-born, now Canadian — came onto the stage at UCLA’s Royce Hall, wrapped her honey-textured voice around the equally tongue-twisting divisions … Continue reading
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Fourth Right
By late August, most of my crack-pot enthusiasm about the Hollywood Bowl and its contents has worn pretty thin. On Tuesday of last week, for example, I took it as a reprieve that the day of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony dawned … Continue reading
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