Falstaff was Verdi’s last operatic composition. As a comedy, it was not the favorite genre of his contemporary audiences. Those…
Karen Weinstein
Weinstein is a clinical psychologist who teaches in the medical school at UCLA. She also holds a master's degree in Urban Studies and has a strong interest in history and architecture, as well as the theater.
I have to get it off my chest, I’m no fan of Phillip Glass. That said, I love the current…
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, …” and here I depart from…
If your tastes run to the horror genre just the title, “Paranormal Activity,” will bring to mind the Paramount Pictures…
If the LA Times is your principle source of cultural information you might have missed the fact LA Opera is…
It is a rare treat to be able to critique an opera from a straight forwardly dramatic point of view….
You’ve gotta have a gimmick, or so goes the song. Pianist Hershey Felder has his. Over twenty years ago he…
Here is the challenge: Is it possible for a self-described “mass of undesirable, unlovable, unemployable, unacceptable fat, Black homosexual molecules…
Right at the start, a gurney with a body draped in a coroner’s sheet; no question where the next two…
If it seems like everyone in the opera world is performing Turandot, you are right. Not only is Turandot a…
I love La Traviata. It may not be the most sophisticated opera passion, but Verdi’s score and his heroine Violeta,…
True confessions of a theater critic: I saw neither the original production, nor have I seen the movie, Funny Girl….
Chances are you have not heard of these two one act operas. You are forgiven but may regret it. Recovered…