Author Archives: Colleen Koestner

The idea of Eddie Van Halen sharing a stage with Dmitri Shostakovich may be enough to ruffle the feathers of any blue-blooded classical music aficionado. Ben Harbert sure hopes so.

Since it first came to the LA Opera in 1987, “Tristan und Isolde” has been one of the company’s most popular productions.

After graduating from UCLA in 1993 with an economics degree, Erik Quisling wrote a book. An accountant by day, he wrote “The Angry Clam” in pen, photocopied it at Kinko’s and sold it to local bookstores.

A musical with Shakespearean verse set to bluegrass, country and gospel may seem like a battle of conflicting artistic expressions. And yet, the twangs of guitar and banjo merge seamlessly with Shakespeare’s love sonnets in “Atlanta’s” story of war and poetry.