Arts & Culture
Seattle Symphony Conductor Ludovic Morlot Announces He’ll Step Down in 2019
Seems like he just got here. In an announcement posted on the Seattle Symphony’s website this morning, music…
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Seattle Opera’s Stark American Tragedy
A Czech opera is transported from Russia to Cascadia, making its villain even more chilling.
Arts & Culture
The 5th Avenue’s “Pajama Game” Is Steaming Hot
How did they get away with this in 1954?
Music
Arvo Pärt: Timeless to Me
At 81, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt walks his own quiet path, but has captivated the world into…
Arts & Culture
Seattle Opera Leaves Verdi Unsettled
Times are tough all over. Ever since the ex-courtesan Violetta, whose story Verdi tells in La traviata, moved…
Arts & Culture
‘The Little Match Girl Passion’ Is a Bleak Counterpart To Seasonal Favorites
ArtsWest’s live choir and dance adaptation of the fairy tale follows a child’s Christmas in hell.
News
The Sounders’ Are-You-F***ing-Kidding-Me Season: A Timeline
It was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons. But on Saturday, it could become…
Arts & Culture
Pushing Bach Against Trump
A Cornish faculty cellist’s next performance will double as protest.
Arts & Culture
From Seattle Opera, A Trans Person’s Path to Self-Reconciliation
No opera, to my knowledge, has told the story of a trans person as either a central or…
Arts & Culture
At Seattle Opera’s Hansel and Gretel, Let the Buyer Beware
A classic fairy tale is rethought to make a political point—with one huge miscalculation.
Arts & Culture
Seattle Theatre Works’ Harrowing Tale of a Brutalized Everyman
The 1837 play could be subtitled “It’s Not the Murderer Who Is Perverse, but the Society He Lives…
Arts & Culture
John Cage Inspires Epic Chaos With His Musicircus
An evening devoted to the composer erases boundaries—between performer and auditor, art and life.
Arts & Culture
Seattle Opera’s Spicy Comedy Is Second to Nun
Terry Gilliam inspired the visuals in this tale of medieval mayhem.
Arts & Culture
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Unusually Serious, Bittersweet Opera Charms
Outstanding performances abound in this rare staging of the 1888 work by the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
Arts & Culture
The Northwest Mahler Festival Goes Long
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the volunteer-driven celebration takes on the Third Symphony.
Arts & Culture
The Symphony Programs a Different Kind of American Festival
Ludovic Morlot takes a more difficult and rewarding route in programming SSO’s summer offering.
Arts & Culture
Seattle Opera’s Idiosyncratic Wagner
What happens when a stylized directorial conception doesn’t quite mesh with the voices singing it?
Arts & Culture
Reclaiming Milton Babbitt, America’s Most Polarizing Composer
It was clickbait before its time. In 1958 composer Milton Babbitt submitted a thinkpiece to High Fidelity magazine…
Arts & Culture
Seattle Opera Wins With a Pair of Queens
No one would dispute that in stagings of bel canto operas—the early-19th-century Italian school—vocal excellence is the main…