Martin Haselböck, musical director of the Musica Angelica orchestra in Long Beach, has conducted on some of the world’s biggest stages in classical music, from the San Francisco Symphony to the National Orchestra and Choir of Poland at the Warsaw Philharmonic. Still, the Viennese virtuoso has continued to find inspiration in Long Beach since 2003. Read More
What were you doing when you were 8 years old? Well, if you were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you were writing your Symphony No. 1, which opened Musica Angelica’s all-Mozart concert the other night at the Beverly O’Neill Theater. Read More
A number of Long Beach musical and theatrical powerhouses will be coming together under one roof in the coming year. Read More
With live performances that included musical theater, choral, opera and baroque numbers, arts leaders and city officials on [May 9] offered a glimpse of what’s to come when the Beverly O’Neill Theater becomes the venue for several local performing companies next season. Read More
If you closed your eyes, you could have imagined you were back in the 18th century listening to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Read More
A 23-year-old classical music group that uses Baroque instruments announced this week that Long Beach will be its new home. Read More
It was a very special homecoming for the welcoming announcement that Musica Angelica was returning to Long Beach! Read More
Two fine performing ensembles, the Long Beach Camerata Singers and Musica Angelica, teamed up the other day at Long Beach City College for a concert culminating the 41st annual Long Beach Bach Festival, and the results were impressive. Read More
Oh, the pleasures. Those are the opening words of Handel’s delightful pastoral opera “Acis and Galatea,” and a fitting commentary on the performance of that work by Musica Angelica the other night at the Center Theater. Read More