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Miss Adelaide (Wildrick) gets what she wants.

Arts & Culture

Opening Nights: Guys and Dolls

Yet again, a 5th Avenue production is a safe bet.

They know how to shear sheep, too.

Film

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls: They’ll Double Your Kiwi Fun

Resistance is futile. Don’t even try not falling for these adorable twin lesbian political-activist farmer/folksinger/comedians from New Zealand.…

Scribner: devoted to sound.

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Ear Supply: A Mighty Wind

Sounds of nature + expert improvisers = nine hours of sonic wonder.

Ilya Bannik wearing one of Rhodes' creations.

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Opening Nights: The Magic Flute

Well-sung, but the costumes will get the buzz.

Feltsman, preparing for the chase.

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Ear Supply: Haydn Makes SSO Jump Through Hoops

The first three movements of Haydn‘s Symphony no. 60 offer no more than the usual number of surprises…

The Jack Quartet, looking like the cast of Law and Order: Chamber Music Unit.

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Ear Supply: Jack and Ethel

Two visiting string quartets bring the genre into this century.

Banks (front) with his questing choir.

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Ear Supply: What’s Old Is New

Holy Week music by a murderer.

Mask master Zaslove.

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Ear Supply: Renaissance Men

Opera's bawdy birth.

Krohn's Don G is so easy to hate.

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Opening Nights: Don Giovanni

In which Mozart's eternal seducer has to resort to gunplay.

One of the butterfly's avatars.

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Ear Supply: Under the Plum Blossom

Sweet freedom whispered in her ear/She's a butterfly . . .

Kikuchi in the Great Hall: Music to catch trains by.

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Ear Supply: Reverb Festival

Good vibes (and other percussion) at Union Station.

Bach: just like starting over.

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Ear Supply: Bach Around the Clock

A cello relay.

A tenor faces his fiercest critic.

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Ear Supply: Handel, With Care

In a new opera, a tenor suffers a Messiah complex.

Gilbert called his women's chorus "professional bridesmaids."

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Ear Supply: Victorian Secrets

Ruddigore with rayguns.

Relyea as the delusional knight.

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Opening Nights: Don Quichotte

Forgiveness and idealism from opera's master patissier.

The Emerson, non mesto.

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Ear Supply: Song of the Exile

A lament for a lost Europe.

Gordon Carpenter (left) as Readymoney Matt, John Bogar as Macheath.

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Opening Nights: The Threepenny Opera

A Russian nesting doll of social satire.

Krimsky and one of his non-electric instruments.

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Seth Krimsky: Excuse Me While I Plug In My Electric Bassoon

The bassoon has never gotten the attention it deserves from composers—despite its historical prestige as one of the…

Morlot brings new ideas and ears.

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Spring Forward

With Muhly, Varèse, and Zappa, the Seattle Symphony hopes to open ears and minds.

Lindsey’s Rosina needs no help from Moore’s.

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Opening Nights: The Barber of Seville

Two Counts court two terrific Rosinas.