Isabel Allende

On-the-go Placido Domingo has a busy month of May, and June too

2013-05-21 09:00:00

Pl�cido Domingo has two simultaneous engagements in Los Angeles in May and early June, conducting productions of Puccini's "Tosca" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the new "Dulce Rosa" at the Broad Stage. But his demanding schedule isn't preventing...

Metropolitan Opera disbands ballet company, gives dancers buyouts

2013-05-21 08:00:00

It’s the end of an artistic era: After more than a century, the Metropolitan Opera has disbanded its ballet with a modern-day buyout. The eight remaining members of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, down from 16 in 2011, agreed Monday to leave the...

Review: With 'Dulce Rosa,' L.A. Opera takes its show on the road

2013-05-20 14:01:00

While the proposed “subway to the sea” may be decades away if it ever comes, Los Angeles Opera isn’t waiting for it to happen. � The company is making the trek from downtown right now, launching L.A. Opera Off Grand on the Broad...

'Dulce Rosa': An Isabel Allende tale turns operatic

2013-05-14 05:00:00

Composer Lee Holdridge says his new opera, "Dulce Rosa," hits "very close to home" for him in several ways. First, as a native Latin American. Second, as the son of a passionate, indomitable woman. And, third, as a lifelong aficionado of stage drama...

LeaLA aims high and wide in 2013 Spanish book festival

2013-04-30 14:13:00

The organizers of the L�aLA Spanish-language book fair want to make the annual event in Los Angeles one of the biggest book gatherings in the United States. The schedule announced Tuesday for this year’s event makes the organizers’ ambitions...

Isabel Allende, a life of letters

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Somewhere between her Chilean family's life-or-death political realities and its intuitive, fantastical imagination is where Isabel Allende writes. Where she lives is the Bay Area, arriving in California about 25 years ago with a famous surname she's gone...

What to read in limbo: a peek at the Guantanamo prison library

2013-04-29 12:19:00

If you’re stuck in a cell — and in legal limbo — for an undefined period that might be forever, what do you do? You read, of course. The library at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established during the Bush administration, in...

A teen's quest for self-discovery in 'Maya's Notebook'

2013-04-27 08:00:00

Whatever happened to magic realism? The question arises when dipping into "Maya's Notebook," Isabel Allende's bruising, cinematically vivid new novel. It's an exercise in gritty realism rather than the fanciful folkloricism that Allende has been known...

Review: 'A Fierce Green Fire' recounts environmental struggle

2013-03-14 16:45:00

A kind of crash course in 50-plus years of environmentalism, the documentary "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet," adapted from the book by Philip Shabecoff, proves a worthy reminder of how much has been done to help heal our planet's...

Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

2013-01-18 08:15:00

Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...

Authors in L.A.: Isabel Allende celebrates 'Zorro' and more

2012-03-19 16:35:09

The Arts on TV: Placido Domingo; Josh Groban; Nicholas Hytner

2011-07-14 16:33:09

The cover of "Maya's Notebook" and author Isabel Allende.

2013-04-25 12:09:58

Chilean author Isabel Allende

2013-04-16 00:00:00

La novelista Isabel Allende en FIU

2012-03-06 00:00:00