by Victoria Looseleaf | Oct 25, 2018 | Videos
LA Opera has another hit on its hands with Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, the term Mohandas K. Gandhi designated for nonviolent resistance, often translated as “truth force.” It was the composer’s first opera created for “traditional” operatic forces, and,...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Oct 19, 2018 | The DaVinci Questionnaire
The Los Angeles and Vancouver-based self-taught figurative and contemporary surrealist painter whose modified oil and egg tempera techniques originally used by the Old Masters, creates works of magical realism – her subjects are often young, hauntingly innocent and...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Oct 7, 2018 | The DaVinci Questionnaire
The Manhattan-born only child of Communist union organizers, and American guerilla poster artist whose gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures are immediately recognizable and have been printed and plastered across America – from the Iran-Contra...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Sep 25, 2018 | The DaVinci Questionnaire
The Philadelphia-born, Fresno-raised award-winning graphic designer and illustrator whose works stylistically balance cute with brute – all walking the fine line between comedy and tragedy while employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters and a seemingly...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Sep 24, 2018 | Videos
With rich orchestrations, thundering choruses and an endless flow of rapturous melodies, one of Verdi’s grandest and greatest works is an enthralling tale of morality and mortality. Mega-tenor turned baritone, Plácido Domingo, and maestro James Conlon joined forces...
