Tuesday, March 10

Opera UCLA revamps ‘Don Giovanni’

This week, 18th-century playboy Don Giovanni returns to the UCLA stage donning a black-and-white suit and fedora. On Feb. 14, Opera UCLA premiered a contemporary production of Mozart’s classic two-act opera “Don Giovanni.” A winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, guest director Jeffrey Buchman’s production is showing again at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse this Friday and Sunday. Read more...

Photo: Opera UCLA, UCLA Philharmonia and the Department of Theater collaborate on a modern adaptation of Mozart’s two-act “Don Giovanni” by guest director Jeffrey Buchman. The performance premiered at the Freud Playhouse on Feb. 14 and continues with performances this Friday and Sunday. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)


Out of Focus: 1980s ‘Bad Timing’ is forgotten gem

Sex, lies and obsession play out in the somber streets of a rainy Vienna in director Nicolas Roeg’s 1980 baroque masterpiece “Bad Timing.” From its opening scene, in which paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt appear alongside the jazz-tinged music of singer Tom Waits, “Bad Timing” comes on like a fever dream of Freudian psychoanalysis and a popular detective novel. Read more...

Photo: Art Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel and Theresa Russell star in Nicolas Roeg’s “Bad Timing,” a thrilling love story between a young psychology professor and his pill-addicted love interest. The film will be screened at The Cinefamily on Friday night. (Courtesy of The Criterion Collection)


Concert Review: Justin Martin

As the clock ticked past midnight in downtown Los Angeles, electronic music intensified inside Exchange Los Angeles, with deep bass trills pushing the limits of the sound system and morphing genres together. Read more...

Photo: DJ and co-founder of Dirtybird Records, Justin Martin performed the premiere of his bimonthly residency at Exchange LA Saturday night, with deep bass trills and morphing genres. (Courtesy of Kyle Hendrix)



Movie Review: ‘Winter’s Tale’

Don’t be fooled – “Winter’s Tale” has no association with the often-adapted William Shakespeare play “The Winter’s Tale,” in which one of the supporting characters is indiscriminately chased off stage by a bear. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Warner Bros.)


Student band The Street Hearts to perform Valentine’s Day show

The sound of The Street Hearts will be coupled with the sight of candy hearts at WitZend on Valentine’s Day. This year, the student folk and soul band has been experimenting with the violin and expanding with genres such as jazz, blues and soul, which it will bring to Friday’s concert in Venice. Read more...

Photo: In addition to performing on Friday at the WitZend, The Street Hearts will play their newest single “Darling Don’t Go” at this year’s Spring Sing and will feature a violinist. (Joseph Chan/Daily Bruin)