Thursday, July 16, 2026
The L.A. Phil began the first all-American week of the L.A. Phil Hollywood Bowl season with new works about soccer and Suffs led by Tito Munoz in his Bowl debut and Thomas Wilkins
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Gustavo Dudamel's final concerts at Disney Hall as L.A. Phil music and artistic director included send-offs from John Williams and John Adams.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2026
L.A. Opera reprises its inventive Barrie Kosky silent-movie production of Mozart's "Magic Flute" for James Conlon's farewell as the company's music director.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Gustavo Dudamel's penultimate week as L.A. Phil music director includes world premieres by Angelica Negron and Roberto Sierra with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2026
Taylor Mac and Lucinda Childs honored Philip Glass and his work with poets during a special performance, one of several celebrations ahead of the composer's upcoming 90th birthday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2026
As Gustavo Dudamel begins his final weeks in Walt Disney Concert Hall as L.A. Phil music director, he talks about what lies ahead and how he got there.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
For the first time since visionary artist Robert Wilson's death in July, his work is being produced simultaneously at Houston Grand Opera ('Messiah') and BAM ('Moby Dick').
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
James Conlon begins the final stretch of his 20th season as music director of L.A. Opera with a production of Verdi's 'Falstaff' and a special concert of opera excerpts.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Anna Handler, a rapidly rising young conductor, will be given the new title of conductor-in-residence for the next three seasons.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2026
Following two of the most brilliantly wacky operas of our time from Gerald Barry, the premiere of his 'Salome' promises to out-wacky the others.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The Los Angeles Philharmonic 2026-27 season is the first without Gustavo Dudamel as music director but remains a visionary leader of the pack
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2026
Los Angeles Opera revives its Phelim McDermott production of Philip Glass' 'Akhnaten' with a new cast headed by countertenor John Holiday and with Dalia Stasevska conducting.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Gustavo Dudamel conducts for the first time Beethoven's epic mass 'Missa Solemnis' for the second program in his Los Angeles Philharmonic Beethoven month.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
A look at what might be behind the closing of the Kennedy Center, which was created as a political act, and what that could mean.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:51PM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2026
Soprano Julia Bullock presents her song recital, 'From Ordinary Things,' with cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Connor Hanick at the UCLA Nimoy Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
Third Coast Percussion gives the L.A. premiere of Zakir Hussain's last major work, "Murmurs of Time," at the Nimoy, a final ode to the tabla great's vast range
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
From Gustavo Dudamel to Esa-Pekka Salonen to Claire Chase to Peter Sellars, classical music had many bright spots in 2025.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]We hang out with L.A. laptop composer Carl Stone in Tokyo as he prepares for the premiere of 'Daimatsu' at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Herbert Ross' beloved L.A. Opera production of Puccini's 'La Bohème,' first seen in 1993 and many times revived, is back with a new cast, conductor and director
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2025
"The Monkey King," a new opera by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang based on a popular Chinese folktale, has proved a major hit for San Francisco Opera.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Brahms' viola-infused string quintets and sextets have in them the essence of amber autumn, and three major L.A. institutions coincidentally turned to them over six November days.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2025
The Master Chorale performs the L.A. premiere of David Lang's 'before and after nature,' concerned with environmental sustainability and social justice
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Zubin Mehta, at 89 an L.A. icon, returns to the L.A. Phil, of which he is conductor emeritus, to conduct one of his specialties, Bruckner's massive 8th Symphony
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:46PM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2025
Gustavo Dudamel finished his final fall appearances with the L.A. Phil, including performances of massive works as well as with D Smoke at a YOLA street festival and finally at the "Gustavo'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2025
At a time when the art of memorializing has become touchy, Martha Graham Dance Co., along with Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil, show us how Leonard Bernstein did it with JFK.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
Gustavo Dudamel begins his official duties as music director designate by opening the New York Philharmonic's 2025-26 season in David Geffen Hall
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
A look at how Terry Riley, on the occasion of his 90th birthday celebration at the Ford, changed music with 'In C,' and what he's up to now in Japan.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Gustavo Dudamel begins his only week at the Hollywood Bowl this summer with a classical/jazz dialogue between Ellington and Ravel.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:59PM[SHARE]Robert Wilson, who changed everything he touched, was the most influential theater artist of our time. And for him all theater was opera.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
At the Bregenz Festival, the big attraction is opera spectacularly produced directly on Lake Constance, but there is more to surprise an Angeleno.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
"Swan Lake" in Costa Mesa, an Indian-Bach mix with Vijay Gupta in Sierra Madre and ballet on a makeshift Television City stage are all parts of June's dance explosion in and around L.A.
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