LA Opera Presents Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette Vittorio Grigolo and Nino Machaidze sing leading roles; Plácido Domingo conducts LA Opera will present Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, opening at 2pm on Sunday, November 6, 2011, and running for six performances through Saturday, November 26. “When we first presented this production of Roméo et Juliette in…

Celebrating 25 Years of LA Opera Los Angeles Opera celebrates its 25th anniversary with its first ever Open House which takes place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Music Center of Los Angeles County, from 9:30am to 5pm on Saturday, November 5, 2011. The day-long affair is open to people of all ages, with some events…

Jean-Yves Thibaudet opens San Diego Symphony’s 2011-2012 season September 30 with an unusual “double Ravel” program. Today’s foremost Ravel interpreter, he will play an unsually demanding program consisting of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Majorm which Thibaudet embraced with a passion rare for an 11-year old kid, and the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand,…

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME US ORCHESTRAS     LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC   “Each time I return to Los Angeles, I feel like I am coming home. In our third season together, working with my extended family on the music of Adams, Mahler and Mozart, music that is so personal to me, makes the next part of…

  With Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” theater broadcasts having been such a success, other major companies have embarked on similar projects. Today through digital technology, live performances are also broadcast internationally from such renowned opera houses as London’s Royal Opera House, Milan’s La Scala, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. Featured…