LA OPERA asks “Why should you see Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti’s darkly romantic tale of honor, betrayal, ...
GOING MAD FOR LUCIA
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A Susanne Mentzer-led benefit concert for typhoon victims in the Philippines
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MARCH MADNESS @ LA OPERA
And Benjamin Franklin had something to do with it! An unwitting star hidden in the orchestra pit makes its company ...
A CONCERT HALL FOR ALL SEASONS
FanFaire celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA’s most famous millennium landmark
CELEBRATING VERDI ON DISC
New Catalog Releases Celebrate Verdi Bicentennial The year-long celebration of Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th ...
200 YEARS OF RICHARD WAGNER
FanFaire guest contributor Spencer Kashmanian ruminates on "one of art history's most colorful--and ...
MUSIC “APPRENTICESHIP” A BIG +
FanFaire contributor Missy McTamney writes about musical apprenticeships with top artists as a catalyst for ...
LET’S GO ROCK SOME OPERA
If rock can go opera, can opera go rock? WHY NOT? asks vocal pedagogue Charles Moulton who proposes changing the ...
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
"Einstein", the 1976 groundbreaking work of the imagination by Wilson and Glass is opera as we don't know it - ...
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LA PHIL MUSIC 101
"Washed" or "unwashed", you're sure to learn something new when you come to LA PHIL MUSIC 101 - and in one of the ...
LA OPERA CELEBRATES BRITTEN 100
Yearlong BRITTEN 100/LA Celebration continues with county-wide performances led by LA Opera Music Director James Conlon
MUSIC FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Mezzo Susanne Mentzer spearheads San Francisco benefit concert for Philippine typhoon victims; SF Opera Chorus and ...
CELEBRATING VERDI
The yearlong Verdi bicentenary celebration continues. LA Opera celebrates Verdi with a new production of Falstaff. ...
CELEBRATING WAGNER
A spectacular new production of Richard Wagner's short opera, " The Flying Dutchman" - the mythic tale of a ...
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER RESIDENCY
La Jolla Music Society presents "Romantic Epicenter" November 8, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's ...
LANG LANG: UN MESSENGER OF PEACE
Chinese pianist Lang Lang has been designated United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on global ...
“EINSTEIN” HEADS TO LA OPERA
Rarely performed work by Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs that revolutionized opera in 1976 makes ...
GIVEAWAYS
A FanFaire-Kultur Holiday CELEBRATION THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL MUSIC DVD GIVEAWAY, BAR NONE! And for many good reasons! 1. This is a pricey, extraordinary 9-disc DVD set – THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT for the special people in your life or for yourself, and there are five such sets to be given away. That should…
Another Special FANFAIRE-KULTUR DVD GIVEAWAY! In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall, FanFaire proudly partners yet again with KULTUR in a DVD GIVEAWAY of the documentary film “András Schiff Plays Chopin” Ten (10) copies of the DVD will be given away to FanFaire viewers who fill in the form below. The…
Another Special FANFAIRE-KULTUR DVD GIVEAWAY! In celebration of NATIONAL ARTS MONTH, FanFaire proudly partners once again with KULTUR in multiple DVD GIVEAWAYS throughout the month of October 2013. The first is a DVD documentary about the legendary Maria Callas, opera’s best known diva, and arguably one of the greatest opera singers of all time. Ten…
