A world premiere musical comedy about Elinor Benton who is pregnant, unmarried, and living in 19th-century England. What’s a young woman to do? Facing certain ruin, she gathers up her best friends and sets off on the ultimate road trip to find the one woman who might offer a chance to change her fate.
An amateur theater group in Dublin is determined to stage a version of Oscar Wilde’s Salome at their leader’s church despite the objections of church authorities in this intimate musical, a queer coming-out story inspired by the 1994 film starring Albert Finney.
Direct from Broadway, Life of Pi is based on a novel that sold more than 15 million copies—a tale about a sixteen-year-old boy who survives on a lifeboat with his four furry companions.
Composer/conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen contrasts two iconic French composers, Boulez and Debussy as he leads the LA Phil and the Fantasie with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Babak Tafreshi, photojournalist, cinematographer and National Geographic Explorer spent his career documenting the unbelievable beauty of the night sky and working to connect people through the shared experience of simply looking up.
The minimalist composer Max Richter celebrates his 2004 album The Blue Notebooks and presents new material
Grammy-Award winning ensemble Chanticleer takes the Main Stage for a program that will include music from Renaissance masterworks to Romantic part-songs, contemporary commissions, vocal jazz and everything in between.
George Bernard Shaw’s high-flying comedy about eight marriage proposals and a plane crash that take place all in one afternoon. What should have been a celebration of upcoming nuptials into aristocracy becomes wildly unexpected upon the unexpected arrival of uninvited guests.
Experience big performances on a more intimate scale when musicians from the LA Phil perform chamber music in small ensembles.
Bold, satisfying, and packed with razor-sharp twists, Lucas Hnath’s Tony-nominated play dives into the messy reality of what it means to be a woman living on your own terms.
Renowned French conductor Ludovic Morlot leads Spanish dance-inspired symphonic poems with the LA Phil, plus a world premiere cello concerto from Julia Adolphe.
Continuing the Future Sounds of Jazz series curated by Stanley Clarke, BroadStage presents jazz pianist, drummer, and composer, Julius Rodriguez.
LA Philharmonic hosts an interactive concert that introduces young audiences to symphonic music. Families are invited to participate in hands-on arts workshops.
Renowned pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet shines in Gershwin’s joyful Concerto in F and Teddy Abrams leads Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra made famous by Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Cameron Carpenter, a celebrated gamechanger in the world of organ, performs an extravagant program of Bach, Franck and Mussorgsky.
Two siblings from one of Britain’s most talented musical families performs cello sonatas by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Fauré as well as a new work by British composer and violinist Natalie Klouda.
It’s been half a century since Hamlet was produced at the Taper. Tony Award® nominated visionary, Robert O’Hara, who directed the landmark box office hit Slave Play, returns to stage one of the most famous tales ever told in a new, Hitchcockian noir adaptation.
Percussionist-turned-conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads the symphony after guiding the orchestra through the suspenseful brass-filled suite of love and obsession from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo before a world premiere spotlighting two of the LA Phil’s own when Principal Percussionist Matthew Howard performs the new concerto by Principal Timpanist and composer Joseph Pereira.
Gustavo Gimeno leads the LA Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony which opens with a fate motif in the woodwinds and low strings, making its way through the orchestra only to be interrupted by a rich and tender horn solo.
When the decadent Duke of Mantua sets his sights on Rigoletto’s young daughter, it’s enough to send the carefree court jester into a deadly rage. But revenge comes at a price. Verdi master James Conlon conducts one of the most heartbreaking operas of them all.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 60th Anniversary season concludes with a spectacular mash-up of music from the English Tudor period and the new choral Renaissance happening right here in L.A. The second part of the program points toward the future with works by several influential L.A. based composers who are particularly close to the Chorale, […]
