Opera
WATCH: 'Becoming Traviata' Official Trailer and Performance Footage
L.A. Phil Taps Jean Nouvel and Azzedine Alaia for Mozart's 'Figaro'
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has handed the reins over to star French architect Jean Nouvel and fashion designer Azzedine Alaia for an unorthodox take on what is sometimes called the most perfect opera. Wagner @ 200: The Pierre Boulez Project @ 8
Eight years ago now, man-with-a-plan Josh Ronsen destroyed more than 100 Pierre Boulez records, tapes, CDs and books--ironically enough--at Austin, Texas' Church of the Friendly Ghost. Somewhere in that heap was Logan K. Young's recording of Boulez's 'Parsifal' at Bayreuth. The following missive, printed here for the first time ever, is Young's 2005 letter to Ronsen.
