Los Angeles Opera revives its Phelim McDermott production of Philip Glass' 'Akhnaten' with a new cast headed by countertenor ...

As an audience member accurately put it, “Akhnaten” is quite a trip. Curtains rose on the LA Opera’s newest masterpiece at ...

It’s one thing to be a multi-disciplinary artist tackling traditional and experimental works and your own creations. That’s impressive but happens. It’s quite another to craft wildly diverse opera ...

When Dalia Stasevska heard opera music for the first time, it was a moment of profound self-revelation. She was 13, growing ...

In celebration of composer Philip Glass' 85th birthday, the LSU's Turner-Fischer Center for Opera will perform his opera, "Orphée" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in the ...

A surprising statement about Philip Glass’ “La Belle et la Bête” (Beauty and the Beast): “When it begins and you see the film and hear the singing, you don’t know where to look, you don’t understand ...

If you think opera is static and stodgy, head to the top of the parking garage at 2nd and PCH in Long Beach. There, from May 21 to May 23, director James Darrah is staging an experimental (and ...

Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) was long considered a masterpiece before Philip Glass decided to write an opera that would meld with the classic 1946 film on stage. Glass’ ...

Philip Glass began his operatic career in the 1970s and ’80s with a trilogy focused on great visionaries of history: “Einstein on the Beach”; “Satyagraha,” a meditation on Gandhi’s early activism; and ...