The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1968 with Neville Marriner as conductor, has played for most of its existence around and about, but never in town. Its venues have been Wallis Annenberg Center (Beverly […]
The Frenchman Francois-Xavier Roth has stopped conducting for the time being after being accused of sending indecent selfies to female members of an orchestra. Under current social norms, he has been globally cancelled. But Roth […]
When Giuseppe Verdi encountered the drama about the King of the Huns by the German Romantic poet Zacharias Werner, he saw its potential as opera. Although audiences and the press initially welcomed the premiere in […]