Culture Week!

Very excited about the coming week. Just got tickets for two cool shows at Red Cat and the Opera.

LA Opera: The Turk in Italy by Rossini

James Conlon conducts Rossini's zaniest comedy, which has been described as The Barber of Seville meets Così fan tutte. Nino Machaidze returns as Fiorilla, a woman determined to rid herself of the two men in her life - her exasperated husband (Paolo Gavanelli) and tedious admirer (Maxim Mironov) - in favor of a more exotic suitor, a pompously beguiling Turk (Simone Alberghini). The great Thomas Allenreturns in the part of the poet Prosdocimo.

• MUSIC

March 7

JOHN HOLLENBECK LARGE ENSEMBLE

John Hollenbeck is one of the rare artists who has mastered the tradition of big band composition while crossing aesthetic borders. 

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• FILM/VIDEO

March 8

THE BIRDWOMAN AND HER DREAMS: ANIMATED WORKS BY NANCY ANDREWS

With characters and stories synthesized from sources including history and autobiography, Nancy Andrews works in a hybrid form that combines research with storytelling, documentary, puppetry, vaudeville.

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