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Hear what the cops were saying about them.

Arts & Culture

Cop Talk

New CD captures the sounds of WTO's police officers.

Descent into madness: Blackwell as Lucia.

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Torn between two lovers

Murder! Lust! Insanity! Soprano Harolyn Blackwell steals the show at Seattle Opera.

Jonathan Dean: He's got the PowerPoint.

Arts & Culture

Read ‘Em and Weep

Jonathan Dean's opera titles make the art form intelligible to the masses.

Copland: an uncommon common man.

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Uneasy Fanfare

Aaron Copland's Third Symphony captures the sound of a nation.

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A classical gas

With its very own stage this year, classical music gets the spotlight.

Cosí couch surfers.

Music

Mozart in Medina

Seattle Opera sets Cosí fan tutte in the modern-day burbs.

The DAE stages a mouthful.

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Degenerate Pleasures

A decade-old performance troupe continues to find new ways to shake up the senses.

Blythe: She loves him, she loves him not.

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Kiss Her, You Fool

A perfectly aloof Carmen commands our affection.

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The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera

Opera heavyweight burnishes his well-deserved legacy.

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Fall Arts Preview – Classical Music

Orchestral

Piano man: Schenkman switches over.

Arts & Culture

Changing keys

The evolution of harpsichordist Byron Schenkman.

Fink (left) aims low as the malevolent Pizarro.

Music

Modern Love?

Seattle Opera goes contemporary for a moving, if misplaced, Fidelio that offers 19th-century oppression in 21st-century style.

News

Classical

1. If you ain’t curious, you ain’t a music lover. You may be a music consumer, or enjoy…

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Playing by numbers

Two local groups make it a weekend at Benaroya

No lightweight: Britten stands tall.

Arts & Culture

The Battle of Britten

A composer's reputation finally achieves the victory of respect.

Elvis Costello, between genres.

Music

Everyday I Compose the Ballet

Elvis Costello dives back into classical music with Il Sogno.

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More gold than corn

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer to the stars.

Envelope-pusher Brant.

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Out of Bounds

Breaking the rules, thrillingly, with composer Henry Brant.

Seattle Opera puts the flesh in flashback.

Arts & Culture

Start of an Affair?

Skeptics of contemporary opera may be seduced by Jake Heggie's newest work.

Film

Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Opens at Egyptian, Fri., April 7. Rated PG-13. 104 minutes.