Los Angeles

The company is cutting back on contemporary offerings for now, canceling what would have been the world premiere of Mason Bates’s new opera.

In the Double Concerto, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and cellist Pablo Ferrández are inspired.

The music of composers Leilehua Lanzilotti and inti figgis-vizueta is featured in an outdoor setting.

From orchestras to soloists to chamber ensembles, the creme de la creme is on offer next season from the Philharmonic Society of OC.

Will the for-profit series, which arrives at the Colburn School this week, draw a different kind of listener?

Through The Healing Project, which lands in L.A. this week, the Berkeley-reared musician and artist has taken on the prison-industrial complex.

Spectacularly cast and flawlessly performed, the show is bound to leave any Wagnerite at Disney Hall begging for another Ring installment.

The famed choreographer says Shakespeare and Prokofiev are only the starting points for this modern telling, which arrives in L.A. next week.

The pianist, who’s known for her advocacy of underrepresented composers, gives commanding performances of modern classics as well.

Which came first, the Scherzo or the Andante?