Jim Farber

The Next on Grand festival offers a wide window into contemporary American music.

Patrick Morganelli’s operatic adaptation of the B-movie turns Italio-Grecian kitsch into modern American opera.

Netia Jones, David Henry Hwang, and composer Unsuk Chin combined to make L.A. Philharmonic's Alice a theatrical thrill ride.

Los Angeles Opera breathes new life into John Corigliano’s brilliant, if overlong, opera.

Tobias Picker's opera is revived by the adventurous, if shoestring-budgeted, Los Angeles company.

The Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series harbors a Frankenstein and other offbeat works conducted by John Adams.

Dylan Mattingly, local product and fast-rising composer, talks about the independent

film he has just scored.

A program from Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic titled “in/Sight” features an inaugurate a five-concert series of video artist collaborations shakes the Disney Hall Rafters.

At the Cal Arts REDCAT theater in Los Angeles, David Rosenboom and percussionist William Winant performed a technologically updated version of Zones of Influence.

From vampires to a neglected John Corigliano work, this season at L.A. Opera bears the stamp of the companyʼs advenurous CEO.