This post was updated Sept. 30 at 9:49 p.m. Warning: spoilers ahead. The LA Opera’s “West Side Story” is in the right place at the right time. Originally brought to Broadway in 1957 by a legendary ...
West Side Story is a reimagined Romeo and Juliet, set on the streets of Manhattan in the 1950s. The original work is by playwright Arthur Laurents, composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen ...
Los Angeles Opera opens James Conlon's final season as music director with 'West Side Story' in Francesca Zambello's well-traveled production.
The production, created specifically for grand opera houses, has its West Coast premiere Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: “Restoring the original scale and glory to certain pieces … is what ...