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Zubel sings gems in an elaborate setting.

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Ear Supply: The Jeweler

The Seattle Chamber Players present gems from many lands.

At the Blue Moon, Popova and company bring art to the masses.

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Spring Arts: Opera, Bar by Bar

“I hope everyone’s having a double tonight,” emcee Ksenia Popova says to the 50 or so people loosely…

Scatliffe commands the stage as Jud.

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Opening Nights: Oklahoma!

We have some issues with it.

Musical solidarity: Horvitz and Holcomb.

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Opening Nights: Smokestack Arias

A new song cycle remembers the Wobblies.

Ehnes takes the reins, onstage and backstage.

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Four by Four

The Seattle Chamber Music Festival gets a little gnarly. Just a little.

Muhly stands out from the crowd.

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Ear Supply: Obsessive and Ecstatic

The latest from one of America's busiest young composers.

Liszt loved opera, warts and all.

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Ear Supply: The Borrowers

Stealing--oops, paying homage--to other composers' work.

Jerick Hoffer as the tormented Moritz.

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Opening Nights: Spring Awakening

"Help, help, I'm being oppressed!"

Robertson leads a fusion of opera and symphony.

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John Adams’ Big Bang

An explosive opera distilled into a half-hour symphony.

Nicolella finally realized he doesn't have to choose.

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Ear Supply: Split Personality

One instrument, many worlds.

Like John Waters behind the Iron Curtain.

Film

Hipsters: Not the Annoying Brooklyn Kind, but the Fun Russian Dancing Kind

Communism collapsed in the Soviet Union because it couldn’t satisfy the people’s unquenchable need for chartreuse checked suits…

Artful dodger Josefowicz.

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The Orchestra as Toy Box

Splashing sounds all around.

A young Sibelius let it all hang out.

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Ear Supply: The Sap Is Rising

Music the avant-garde loved to hate.

Dancer in a box--or in a Cage?

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Ear Supply: Dance Dance Revolution

A Cornish legend reborn.

Rachvelishvili's smart, sly heroine.

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Opening Nights: Carmen

A largely traditional production boasts better acting than singing.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. Song of Solomon 7:3

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Ear Supply: Like Clusters of Grapes

Centuries of frank sensuality in song.

Anita Rachvelishvili, one of SO's two Carmens, sees her fate in the cards.

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Ear Supply: Bizet This Weekend?

The ideal opera for opera virgins.

Rachmaninoff's music got spicier as he aged.

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Young Man in a Hurry

Ludovic Morlot drives best in the fast lane.

A symphony that even the Dude won't be able to keep you awake with.

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Ear Supply: The Dude Picks a Dud

A conducting star's big-screen stumble.

Varese, the dark side . . .

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Atlantic Crossings

The Seattle Symphony's Ludovic Morlot leads a musical exchange program.