Passion play
Los Angeles Opera’s St. Matthew Passion was by equal parts challenging and hypnotic to watch.
60 pieces since 2008 — in 20 roles, at 12 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
3 pieces as LA Opera — stats above show all coverage for Susan Graham.
View allLos Angeles Opera’s St. Matthew Passion was by equal parts challenging and hypnotic to watch.
Last month in the New York Times Joshua Barone surveyed recent European streams of German works by Kurt Weill and pondered their relationship to his later Broadway successes; his piece prompted Trove Thursday to feature two versions of One Touch of Venus.
Saturday night I navigated the Music Center concourse, or what’s left of it with it’s seemingly eternal construction to the main plaza, wending my way to the Dorothy Chandler for the opening night of LA Opera’s Hansel and Gretel.
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