Osvaldo Golijov’s beauteously strange “Ainadamar” has reached Los Angeles. The opera, one of this century’s most gratifying, portrays the 1936 political execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca ...

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Mourning is followed by celebration: dancers from Phoenix Dance Theatre and Jazzart Dance Theatre in After Tears: After a Requiem It's a double bill, in which the first part is danced to Mozart’s ...

Too grief-stricken to attend the funeral of Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi composed a memorial in the form of a requiem to honor his memory. Created for four soloists, ...

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Music is most powerful when it starts a conversation. When Damien Geter wrote An African American Requiem, he wanted to shine a perpetual light on those who lost their lives due to racial violence in ...