L A. Opera defies elitist label with 'La Traviata,' 'Noah's Flood' Los Angeles Times

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• Holy Trinity Church
• Robert MacNeil, the stately journalist who brought news to PBS, dies at 93
• Fore! Perfect your swing at these 9 pleasant L.A. public golf courses
• Documentary filmmaker and social activist Lourdes Portillo dies at 80
• Drone attack kills 4 people in Ukraine’s second-largest city as Russia builds its war strength
• Thomas J. Munn
• Eric Braeden of ‘Young and the Restless’ nominated for first Daytime Emmy in 20 years

Clustered in a dank, darkened corridor offstage, members of the chorus drew themselves up, preparing to burst into song. Kabanets’ next project — not even a full-fledged shop yet, he said — is in Izyum, occupied earlier in the war like Kupiansk and in likely danger if Russia, as expected, presses an offensive this spring. Inscribed on one of the pieces of particleboard covering a tall window is a verse by Maksym Kryvtsov, a well-known Ukrainian poet-soldier who was killed in January at the front. In roughly the span of the war, Kabanets’ business has grown to four branches in the city and a fifth in a nearby front-line town called Kupiansk, which was occupied by Russian troops early in the war and whose inhabitants fear it may fall again. The strikes are under scrutiny by war crimes investigators, adding to a backlog of thousands of alleged atrocities. Officials said some emergency response protocols were being revised in order to protect rescuers, but declined to give details for fear of aiding Russia.

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He began directing for the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 2004, receiving a faculty appointment in 2006. He was on staff at the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1993 and joined the faculty from 1997 until 2019. In 2022 he joins the faculty of University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music as Lecturer in Opera Studies and Stage Director. Mr. Conlon holds four honorary doctorates and has received numerous other awards. He was one of the first five recipients of the Opera News Awards, and was honored by the New York Public Library as a Library Lion.

Robert MacNeil, the stately journalist who brought news to PBS, dies at 93

Klaus Makela, appointed music director of the Chicago Symphony at the age of 28, has been likened to Gustavo Dudamel. Over twelve years now, the Marigny Opera House has been producing and presenting local artists to create shows that stay with you for a lifetime. This program commemorates this range of artists and their creative connections within and outside the Marigny Opera Ballet, in one seamless and striking evening.

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The Supreme Court, significantly expanding access to the courtroom, ruled Monday that the public has a constitutional right to attend pretrial hearings in criminal cases. Roughly two and a half years later, the paper won a second Supreme Court ruling affirming that preliminary hearings should be open to the public. That was after a challenge stemming from the case of Robert Diaz, a Riverside County nurse who had killed at least 12 patients by injecting them with lidocaine. In January 1984, the paper won the first of two Supreme Court rulings that are still often cited by attorneys seeking access to court proceedings. Albert Greenwood Brown Jr. was on trial for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 15-year-old Susan Jordan, whose body was found in an orange grove near her Riverside high school.

It was Hurricane Betsy that first damaged the Marigny church back in 1965, though the building was still functional and held church services until 1997. After the church closed its doors, it fell into further blight, which Hurricane Katrina and the storm only worsened, destroying the building's sacristy and damaging its roof. Blessed on July 18, 1848 (so says the plaque outside its doors) the first church was sadly destroyed by a fire in 1851. The current building that stands at 725 St Ferdinand St was designed by architect Theodore E Giraud, who also designed the regal, Venetian Gothic-inspired Immaculate Conception Church at 132 Baronne St in the CBD.

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At LA Opera, his popular pre-performance talks blend musicology, literary studies, history, and social sciences to discuss the enduring power and relevance of opera and classical music. He also frequently collaborates with universities, museums, and other cultural institutions and works with scholars, practitioners, and community members across disciplines. He frequently appears throughout the country as a speaker on a variety of cultural and educational topics. Mr. Conlon’s extensive discography and videography can be found on the Bridge, Capriccio, Decca, EMI, Erato, and Sony Classical labels.

Drone attack kills 4 people in Ukraine’s second-largest city as Russia builds its war strength

“Being here is a very specific choice,” said Alyona Udalova, a 34-year-old dance instructor walking her dog in the shrapnel-pocked city center. With Russian strikes often coming from so close by that they carry only seconds’ warning — air alarms sounding even as missiles are slamming home — that task is more difficult by the day. Ungainly though the tower may have been, the sight of its red-and-white upper mast plunging spearlike to the ground after a strike Monday by a Russian Kh-59 missile was a stinging affront to many in this city of 1.2 million people, only 25 miles from the Russian frontier. The plastered brick church was designed in the Romanesque style and features handsome paired towers whith onion-shaped domes which dominate the skyline of the area.

Playwright Eleanor Burgess began writing “Galilee, 34” in 2019, the year she became a mother. “Something about being pregnant and giving birth made me think about how the Virgin Mary was a real mom, who had a real son and had to watch him get killed by state violence,” she said. “It’s written with an enormous amount of care and thoughtfulness, and a searching curiosity about each of the characters and their quest to find what God wants from us,” said director Davis McCallum. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Many are still outside the country, but some remained, or returned for bare-bones productions such as this one. Cast members clad in jeans and puffer coats were rehearsing Bizet’s work in a chilly concrete basement, where a raised stage and a makeshift orchestra pit were installed late last year.

As Artistic Advisor, in addition to leading these performances, Mr. Conlon will help ensure the continued artistic quality of the orchestra and fill many duties off the podium, including those related to artistic personnel—such as filling important vacancies and attracting exceptional musicians. He also served as Artistic Advisor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2021–2023). He has conducted over 270 performances at the Metropolitan Opera since his 1976 debut. He has also conducted at leading opera houses and festivals such as the Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival, La Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Mariinsky Theatre, Covent Garden, Chicago Lyric Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Ashley Lee is a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes about theater, movies, television and the bustling intersection of the stage and the screen. An alum of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, she leads workshops on arts journalism at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She was previously a New York-based editor at the Hollywood Reporter and has written for the Washington Post, Backstage and American Theatre, among others.

A civilian was killed as well, and a dozen other people injured, local officials said. Generators roar and sputter on Kharkiv’s sidewalks, powering businesses and cafes during frequent outages. Schoolchildren holding fast to parents’ hands descend into classrooms constructed inside subway stations. First responders rush to the scene of daily strikes, despite deadly loss that has touched their ranks, even their own families. The wrecked tower probably couldn’t be repaired until after the war, Terekhov said. But by week’s end, engineers using terrestrial receivers had managed to restore a digital TV signal in Kharkiv.