Los Angeles

Under guest conductor Matthias Pintscher, LACO plays standards by French composers with the requisite elegance and lyricism.

Composer Michael Abels’s searing setting of poetry by Nikky Finney expertly balances string playing, choral singing, and recitation.

Choreographer Ohad Naharin’s 2022 masterpiece is filled with hypnotic imagery co-created by company members.

The two stations have been partnered since 2011, but starting this summer, they’ll put out just one main audio feed.

This new work by composer Daniel Kessner and librettist Lionelle Hamanaka is set to take the stage at Los Angeles’ Aratani Theatre.

The company’s longtime music director will bid adieu with productions of West Side Story, Falstaff, and The Magic Flute.

Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian’s adaptation of this film about intergenerational trauma comes to LA Opera.

Conductor Xian Zhang returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall with this rarity, and pianist George Li plays Tchaikovsky.

Executives at the LA Phil, LA Opera, and more talk about their work going forward following the devastation left by last month’s blazes.

The conductor and composer is sticking around in California even as he’s set to depart the SF Symphony at the end of this season.