Trails Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N. (Issaquah), 425-392-2202. $22-$63. Runs Wed.–Sun.; see villagetheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends April 21. (Runs…
From the first garbled bar, conductor Carlo Montanaro made Seattle Opera’s opening-night performance of La boheme the speediest I’ve ever…
![Ludovic Morlot conducts October's [untitled] . . . in the lobby.](https://www.seattleweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1189433.jpg)
The scene in the Benaroya Hall lobby, one Friday night last October, must have startled both those people who’d been…
This doc is Wagner for Dummies, and I mean that in the best sense: I can’t imagine a more engaging…
The unheralded godfather of minimalism, Canadian-born composer Colin McPhee (1900–64) became so captivated by a recording of Balinese music that…
Things this hit show’s creators—Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez—hate: received wisdom, Disney plasticity, Johnnie Cochran, and condescension from…
Rossini’s 1817 Cenerentola is roughly the Cinderella tale we all know, with a few important twists: The wicked stepmother is instead a…
Over the years, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, in either its summer or winter festivals, has almost never included any…
It’s good to be the king–at least for a day–in Verdi’s rarely staged comedy.
A musical inventor’s preserved instruments, trucked cross-country.
It happened at the World’s Fair.
A Verdi tragedy on the big screen.
Ludovic Morlot, the Seattle Symphony’s chief innovator.Informality, accessibility, openness, a sense of welcoming–these are virtues when it comes to the…
Ultramodern music, 50 years old.
A modern-dress take on Beethoven’s raised-fist opera.
What Shostakovich told the future about Stalin.
Pamela is partnered with Tristan MacManus, the world’s sexiest Irishman who doesn’t play a chauffeur on Downton Abbey.Are you as…
This Bruckner symphony is 73 minutes, eh? I better use the restroom now.When I was back home in August, I…
Music’s inadvertent revolutionary influenced arts far beyond it.
The Seattle Symphony’s season opening recalls 2001’s.
