Joe Cadagin

A new recording showcases the composer’s latest opera, a dark amalgamation of two literary works.

In Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the composer teases out connections to jazz, surrealist film, and Ruth Asawa.

The composer talks about the perception and reality of Latin American music and about a new work getting its world premiere with the LA Phil this week.

The first opera in Cerise Lim Jacobs’s The Ouroboros Trilogy borrows heavily from Eastern lore and legends.

A new recording reveals the composer’s intriguing mesh of ideas, influences, and techniques.

David Hertzberg’s The Wake World is a sumptuous pleasure house of music.

The semistaged opera highlights the orchestra’s season finale.

Kaminsky’s strong music is the focal point of Opera Parallèle’s world-premiere production.

The vibrant 1977 opera shines on this lovingly rendered CD reissue.

Jake Heggie’s operatic adaptation of a singular holiday classic has its West Coast premiere.