Eric Owens

Dodgers announce 2013 minor league coaching assignments

2012-12-17 17:45:00

Get out your minor league scorecards. The Dodgers announced coaching assignments for their seven minor league teams Monday. In truth, there was no singularly significant assignment, but the usual shuffle of coaches. Ex-Dodger Jody Reed, who served...

'Butterfly' subtext in 'Fatal Attraction' still can't be ignored

2012-11-28 13:49:00

A man has a casual affair with a woman and then dumps her. The woman, now with child, longs for his return but is coldly rebuffed. Humiliated and left with nothing to live for, she kills herself with a sharp blade to the throat. The story of Puccini's...

Opera's ever-inquisitive Eric Owens is in high demand

2012-11-17 07:47:00

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — But what he really wants to do is conduct … For the next three weeks Eric Owens is playing the supporting role of Sharpless in Los Angeles Opera's "Madame Butterfly," but at age 42, the Philadelphia-born singer has...

Opera review: David Robertson conducts 'Wozzeck' in Santa Fe

2011-08-02 16:33:14

At the Metroplitan Opera, some boos for a new 'Rheingold' and cheers for James Levine

2010-09-28 16:33:09

Opera review: Peter Sellars stages Handel's 'Hercules' in Chicago

2011-03-06 16:32:50

The return of #operaplot contest on Twitter

2011-04-13 16:33:08

Winners announced for #operaplot Twitter contest

2011-04-22 16:33:06

L.A. Phil: sharing the spotlight

2008-05-15 00:00:00

A Bach cantata contemplating the joys of life beyond death seems an odd bedfellow for romantic music by Reinecke, Schumann and Schubert. And, in fact, it didn't quite fit stylistically or thematically in a chamber music program played by members of the...

Words from the past, insights for today

2008-10-28 00:00:00

Saturday morning, hyperbolic weather reporters here barked out warnings of heavy wind and drenching rain all day. A shower or two did dampen Manhattan streets, but the real New York weather over the weekend was elsewhere. Friday night at the Chelsea...

The Baltimore Symphony delivers vivid Wagner program

2013-02-20 10:46:00

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra chose some of Richard Wagner’s most radiant and involving music for a program this weekend to mark the composer’s bicentennial year. The results were pretty radiant, too, Friday night at Meyerhoff Symphony...

A genius and an anti-Semite, Wagner

2013-02-09 00:00:00

It takes little effort to find severe problems with the character of Richard Wagner, the man who was born two centuries ago and, as he was the first to acknowledge, became one of history's greatest composers. It's much harder to dismiss his music, which...

The orchestra's annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. brings several firsts, including the conducting debut of operatic bass-baritone Eric Owens in Barber's Adagio for Strings.

2013-01-17 10:13:00

Oksana Dyka (Cio-Cio-San) and Eric Owens (Sharpless).

2012-11-18 18:12:00

Tenor Eric Owens goes over music during a rehearsal for Owens' first "Madame Butterfly" with L.A. Opera at the Music Center. MORE: Opera's ever-inquisitive Eric Owens is in high demand

2012-10-31 00:00:00