Nov 12th, 2008 · Concha Buika's sultry voice and varied musical influences have earned her worldwide acclaim. Her latest album, La Nina de Fuego, fuses the musical traditions of Africa and Spain with jazz, soul and dance and has been nominated for the Latin Grammy Album of the Year.
Oct 17th, 2008 · Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of the busiest musicians around, complete with new recordings, new pieces to premiere and seemingly endless concert tours. But when she's relaxing at home in Germany, she lists Ella Fitzgerald and La Bohème among her musical favorites.
Oct 10th, 2008 · Electric passion becomes lasting love, and ends with desperate tragedy, in Puccini's La Boheme — maybe the greatest "date opera" in history — in a racy new production from the Washington National Opera.
Aug 9th, 2008 · La Passion de Simone, by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, make its New York debut Wednesday. The oratorio explores the life and work of the French philosopher Simone Weil. Director Peter Sellars calls it a challenging work about a difficult human being.
Aug 8th, 2008 · French composers Jules Massenet and Francis Poulenc provide a potent reminder that love isn't always what it's cracked up to be in their one-act operas Portrait of Manon and La Voix Humaine, produced by Glimmerglass Opera.
Apr 9th, 2008 · Five years ago, Baghdad fell to forces led by the United States. But according to an oft-forgotten L.A. Times report, the crystallizing moment when a statue of Saddam Hussein came down in Baghdad was not the spontaneous event it appeared to be.
Aug 30th, 2006 · Rossini's opera, La Scala di Seta, is full of secret marriages, whispered conversations and lots of climbing out of windows. This is the very beginning of that story: the Overture, performed by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductor Jakub Hrusa.