The Misread City

THERE’s a phrase of John Cage’s I think about once in a while, despite having radically mixed feelings about the man and his wor...

For my latest Influences column, I speak to left-of-the-dial opera soprano Juliana Snapper , who will be part of a festival of new work at R...

WHAT would it look like if Hurricane Katrina blew across an Italo Calvino fable? We might be able to find out when Crescent City , whose cre...

THIS week my Influences column looks at opera soprano Ana Maria Martinez , who started out as a West Side Story loving kid in Puerto Rico a...

FOUNDER of the Los Angeles avant-gartde performance group Early Morning Opera, Lars Jan is a polymath interested in a lot of things, especia...

WHEN you do what I do, you hear a lot of arts advocates and administrators talk about "reaching out," finding "new audiences,...