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Ventris in Parsifal: slow but worth it.

Music

Found: the Grail

McCaw Hall gets a wholly fabulous launch with this new production of Wagner's final work.

That Kennedy touch: John Bumbalo, right, and Kimberly Giordano.

Arts & Culture

Trouble in Camelot

Chappaquiddick is immortalized in song in Black Water.

Survival of the art form: voices or bodies?

Music

The Fat Lady Sings?

La Bohème, both here and on Broadway, contemplates whether opera can carry its own weight.

Seattle Youth Symphony

Arts & Culture

Seattle Youth Symphony

Marcus Tsutakawa and David Upham share the podium for a Halloween concert, a good, unhackneyed program of spooky…

Vivica Genaux triumphs as Rosina.

Arts & Culture

Manic mirth

A comic opera suffers from too much shtick.

Arts & Culture

Technicolor yawn

A rarely performed and very bland opera

Jon Kimura Parker

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Classical events

SEATTLE BAROQUE FESTIVAL Seattle Baroque, offering 18th-century music (and earlier) at its most engaging, presents mythological music for…

Chernov: sleek as a greyhound.

Arts & Culture

Fools in Love

The heart of Eugene Onegin.

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There are no dumb questions at Tom Baker's salon.

Arts & Culture

Sounding out composers

How a classical open-mike night helps to open ears.

Haruko Nishimura plays it cool.

Arts & Culture

Great Sounds of 2005

Tangos, mini-opera, and best performance by a cellist.

Candy Cane bubble bar

News

The Lush Life

How 'Buffy the Backside Slayer' can pamper the 'Yule Dude' on your list.

Novice nuns Blanche (Takiguchi, left) and Constance (Amber Sudduth) sing at Mother Superior's graveside.

Arts & Culture

Second to nun

UW's School of Music takes on theology, the French Revolution, and an opera.

Chappaquiddick with a High C

Arts & Culture

Chappaquiddick with a High C

Black Water resuscitates Mary Jo Kopechne's story.

Arts & Culture

STRINGING US ALONG

A local composer makes hands-on sound waves.

Arts & Culture

The Eaglen has landed

Taking in the Greatest Living Wagner Soprano.

Maya Beiser went compellingly offbeat at On the Boards.

News

The High Notes

Remembering a year of classical triumphs.

Arts & Culture

Positively Barber-ic

Seattle Opera's Vanessa isn't an opera at all.

Arts & Culture

Vulgar charm

Showcasing the enchanting contradictions of Poulenc.

Christophe Chagnard at the podium.

Music

Fabulous Invalids

Disregard those premature obituaries; Northwest orchestras are still thriving below the headlines.