Monthly Archives: February 2008

Total Immersion: Long Beach Opera's Orpheus and Euridice

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Alan Rich

The Devil in the Deep Blue Pool The lovers afloat There is this problem I have, trying to describe almost any production by the Long Beach Opera. Elektra in a Malibu beach house, Boris Godunov in a corporate boardroom … … Continue reading →

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Splendid Company at Disney Hall

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Alan Rich

Paradise Lost and Found Robert Millard Verdi’s Otello at the Music Center “We are not the sole owners of our past,” wrote Jordi Savall, music’s great and original spirit, in a note accompanying his marvelous appearance at Disney Hall last … Continue reading →

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Some Enchanted Evenings

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Alan Rich

Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is the elephant in the parlor, bedecked with garlands of roses. Its every dimension is wrong. From within the 85 minutes of Christoph Eschenbach’s performance with the Philharmonic last weekend, any composition student with an X-Acto … Continue reading →

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Itzhak Perlman and Olivier Latry at Disney Hall

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Alan Rich

Dutch Treat I envy anyone his first look at Amsterdam. You step out of Central Station and there is the perfect urban landscape: old buildings in grand array, trolleys in front, everything numbered so that you know exactly where to … Continue reading →

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