Overview They’re back! After an astonishing debut with Alcina in 2021, conductor Harry Bicket and his sensational orchestra, The English Concert, return with another dazzling baroque masterpiece performed in concert. This time, it’s Handel’s Solomon.  A magnificent song of celebration (sung in English!), Solomon celebrates the famously wise king in action: as a devoted husband to his beloved queen (never mind the 699 other wives or the 300 concubines), as a sage dispenser of justice (remember the two mothers laying claiming […]

Overview Internationally acclaimed chamber orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields returns to Los Angeles with “explosively charismatic” (The New York Times) superstar mandolinist Avi Avital. The Academy has become a BroadStage favorite for their unrivaled live performances. Together, their fresh interpretations of the world’s greatest orchestral music, including Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1, […]

About this Performance Igor Levit, who made such a powerful impression playing Beethoven’s C-minor Piano Concerto during the 2021/22 season, makes a welcome return in recital, sharing his insights into the final three masterpieces of Beethoven’s sonatas for solo piano. Program BEETHOVEN     -Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109 BEETHOVEN   -Piano […]

About this Performance As part of his 75th birthday celebrations, LA Phil John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair John Adams leads a Green Umbrella concert—from the series he watches over so carefully—that features the world premiere of an LA Phil commission from Anthony Cheung, whose music has been described as “gritty, inventive and wonderfully assured” […]

About this Performance The beloved American violinist, who has grown up with us, returns to her roots with a solo Bach recital. Her purity of tone and intonation even in the most complex of Bach makes hearing these small monuments an ever greater joy. Wednesday, at  8:00PM

"It’s Little Shop meets Sweeney Toddmeets Avenue Q!" A New Beatnik Horror Comedy Musical. Dig this, hepcats! When a struggling beatnik sculptor in San Francisco stumbles upon a new style of art that thrusts him into fame, fortune, and perhaps some big trouble, well – you’ll just have to see what Walter Paisley did today. […]

About this Performance It's a night showcasing the long and fruitful collaboration between the uncompromising filmmaker and the brilliant trumpeter and bandleader whose lush scores augment the humanitarian spirit and political heart of Lee’s movies. This incredible music comes to life at the hands of Blanchard’s sensational quintet and guest vocalists, with specially curated images […]