Monthly Archives: June 1990

GETTY

There is a certain shock value in hearing the music of the distant past, as there often is with music of today. Our most familiar repertory stems from a time (Bach, say, through Debussy) when certain stated or implied rules … Continue reading

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MOZART

Elsewhere the drought took its toll, but the UCLA campus has been richly awash these last four days — inundated, that is, with magical Mozart, much of it unfamiliar, all of it beautifully done. Perhaps the limitations suggested by the … Continue reading

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HAPPY END

Just before the happy end of “Happy End,” the 1929 Bert Brecht/Kurt Weill musical that began a five week run at Costa Mesa’s South Coast Repertory on Friday night — the ringleader of the bandit gang delivers a ringing speech. … Continue reading

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FANCIULLA

By general agreement, “The Girl of the Golden West” is Puccini’s problem opera. Maybe so, but the Music Center Opera’s new production, unveiled Wednesday night in an out-of-town tryout at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, presents … Continue reading

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