Soprano Jessica Rivera performs Saturday in the “St. Mark” Passion by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times calls the work a “joyous but also powerfully theatrical and shockingly original carnival of South American singing and dancing and drumming.” (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Capoerista Deraldo Ferreira, left, and Reynaldo Gonzalez Fernandez, Afro-Cuban singer and dancer, in the “St. Mark” Passion, presented as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Americas and Americans” festival. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Maria Guinand conducts the versatile chorus Schola Cantorum de Venezuela in the performance of Golijov’s work, also known as “La Pasion Segun San Marcos,” which premiered 10 years ago and adapts the text of one of the four Gospels. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Conductor Maria Guinand, whose techique was described by The Times’ Mark Swed as “a combination of Pierre Boulez-like precision and the authority of a dancing Gustavo Dudamel.” with capoerista Deraldo Ferreira on Saturday at Disney Hall. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Maria Guinand conducts Schola Cantorum de Venezuela and La Pasion Orchestra, as they perform the Golijov work, whose text is mostly in Spanish. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
