(Photo credit: The Valley Music Hall of Fame & Javier Armijo) LA Opera named soprano Audra McDonald and mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmán in the 2023-24 class of Legacy Ambassadors. Last season, LA Opera launched the Legacy Ambassador program, an initiative to forge deep, authentic and longstanding relationships with diverse communities and the key thought-leaders who influence them. The ambassadors chosen are {…}
The Latino Theater Company is set to present “La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin.” The production is an archival video, which has taken place annually since 2002 at Downtown L.A.’s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The archival recording stars renowned opera singer Suzanna Guzman as the Virgin and over 100 actors, singers, and indigenous Aztec dancers as well as children {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) With the exception of one opera, this weekend’s recommendations are a combination of rare works that are either being heard for the first time or rarely make the stages in the U.S. Rest in Pieces – Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program & The Orchestra Now Curated and directed by famed mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, {…}