Well-sung, but the costumes will get the buzz.
The first three movements of Haydn‘s Symphony no. 60 offer no more than the usual number of surprises and feints,…
Two visiting string quartets bring the genre into this century.
Holy Week music by a murderer.
Opera’s bawdy birth.
In which Mozart’s eternal seducer has to resort to gunplay.
Sweet freedom whispered in her ear/She’s a butterfly . . .
Good vibes (and other percussion) at Union Station.
A cello relay.
In a new opera, a tenor suffers a Messiah complex.
Ruddigore with rayguns.
Forgiveness and idealism from opera’s master patissier.
A lament for a lost Europe.
A Russian nesting doll of social satire.
The bassoon has never gotten the attention it deserves from composers—despite its historical prestige as one of the earliest woodwind…
With Muhly, Varèse, and Zappa, the Seattle Symphony hopes to open ears and minds.
Two Counts court two terrific Rosinas.
No missteps, but no revelations either, in this Mozart update.
It was a good call for violinist Gidon Kremer–who brought his string orchestra Kremerata Baltica to Benaroya Hall Friday night–not…
Blood and stripping in a fearless mad scene.