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    Review: The Kanye West opera at the Hollywood Bowl? Call it 'Nebuchadsnoozer'

    by Mark Swed and Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Nov 25, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Kanye West premiered his much-anticipated "Nebuchadnezzar" opera Sunday evening at the Hollywood Bowl, and the result was ... short! At 50 minutes or so, the production ran for far less than the two hours and change the audience waited (past the advertised 4 p.m. start time) for the show to begin.

    But if West's new project - the latest in a very busy stretch following his pop-up Sunday Service performances, an IMAX concert movie and last month's "Jesus Is King" album - was surprisingly brief in duration, the scale of it was characteristically ambitious.

    Directed by frequent West collaborator Vanessa Beecroft (and streamed live on Tidal), "Nebuchadnezzar" featured a cast of hundreds including dancers, keyboardists, drummers, string players, the Sunday Service choir and, in the

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