LA Opera

Where “dazzling” pretty much sums it up “The Magic Flute” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by Bondo Wyszpolski I’m a latecomer, but from today a convert, to the Suzanne Andrade, Paul Barritt, and Barrie Kosky-inspired production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” which has now circled back for the fourth or fifth time to LA Opera. […]

The tragic tale of Federico García Lorca Pools of sorrow at LA Opera’s “Ainadamar” by Bondo Wyszpolski Osvaldo Golijov’s funereal opera, which leans heavily towards dance-theater, is also something of a memory play, in which an aging actress, Margarita Xirgu (soprano Ana María Martinez), recalls her friend and collaborator, the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico […]