Jim Farber

In the second installment of the Ciudad de la Mexico Festival, Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil celebrate a “Noche de Cine.”

Gustavo Dudamel’s CDMX: Music from Mexico City enchants with big ideas and small details.

Women film composers are banding together to have their voices and their music heard.

The lauded film derives much of its power from an intricate tapestry of music, sound, and effects.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic explores the phenomenon that is contemporary Icelandic music.

Long Beach Opera’s The Perfect American examines the life of the visionary animator.

New music may be suddenly hip but keeping an arts nonprofit afloat is still challenging.

Where will the expanding universe of emerging artists and presenters find the support they need?

Phelim McDermott, the wizard behind the 2007 English National Opera production of Satyagraha, comes through again with a spectacular staging of a brilliant but difficult show.

Artist in residence Matthew Aucoin created and conducted a new pastiche score for F.W. Murnau’s classic film that was surprisingly moving.