Classical Seattle Opera: Don Giovanni You’ve seen the bus ads; you’ve seen

October 20, 2014 3:21 pm

Classical

Seattle Opera: Don Giovanni You’ve seen the bus ads; you’ve seen the TV spots, all abs and motorcycles; so you know Seattle Opera is going for the boom-chick-a-mow-mow in this revival of director Chris Alexander’s coolly decadent 2007 production of Mozart’s dramedy. Nicolas Cavallier and Mark Walters share the title role, and Lawrence Brownlee, one of today’s busiest and most acclaimed bel canto tenors, returns as the cuckolded Don Ottavio. In Italian with English supertitles. (Seven performances through Nov. 1.)  McCaw Hall (Seattle Center), 321 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 $25-$223 Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 7:30pm

Seattle Philharmonic An all-American program with music by Gail Kubik, Bernard Herrmann, and others. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle, WA 98101 $20-$30 Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 7:30pm

Seattle Women’s Chorus Moon songs, and lots of ‘em, in “Hallows in the Cathedral.” Opens Oct. 17. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. plus 2 p.m. Sat., Oct. 18. Ends Oct. 25. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. E. $25-$45 Friday, October 24, 2014

Seattle Women’s Chorus Moon songs, and lots of ‘em, in “Hallows in the Cathedral.” Opens Oct. 17. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. plus 2 p.m. Sat., Oct. 18. Ends Oct. 25. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. E. $25-$45 Saturday, October 25, 2014

Seattle Opera: Don Giovanni You’ve seen the bus ads; you’ve seen the TV spots, all abs and motorcycles; so you know Seattle Opera is going for the boom-chick-a-mow-mow in this revival of director Chris Alexander’s coolly decadent 2007 production of Mozart’s dramedy. Nicolas Cavallier and Mark Walters share the title role, and Lawrence Brownlee, one of today’s busiest and most acclaimed bel canto tenors, returns as the cuckolded Don Ottavio. In Italian with English supertitles. (Seven performances through Nov. 1.)  McCaw Hall (Seattle Center), 321 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 $25-$223 Saturday, October 25, 2014, 7:30pm

Compline Services A half-hour meditation each week with the eight-voice Renaissance Singers. St. Clement of Rome Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S., Seattle Free Sunday, October 26, 2014, 7:30 – 8pm

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Jonathan Powell Born in England of Parsi descent, composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988), fed up with the cool reception his dumbfoundingly ambitious music got in conservative Britain, became something of a musical hermit. As he put it, “No performance at all is vastly preferable to an obscene travesty,” and it wasn’t until the 1970s and ‘80s that he at last met pianists with the technique, devotion, and stamina required to bring to life his immense and complex music. There’s the hothouse lushness of Scriabin, but with a greater sinewy severity; the chaotic ecstasy of Messiaen, but with blurrier outlines; the formidably complex rhythms and saturated textures of Ives’ “Concord” Sonata-all mixed with rigorous contrapuntal structures that pile on further difficulties. Jonathan Powell has been one of the composer’s chief proselytizers, and brings two recitals’ worth to Seattle: shorter works tonight as an appetizer, and on Saturday, Nov. 1, Sorabji’s 1949 Sequentia cyclica super Dies irae-377 pages long, seven hours of music in all, deployed in bouts of roughly three, two, and two hours with two intermissions. You’ve heard nothing like it in this city, I promise you. GAVIN BORCHERT PONCHO Concert Hall (Cornish College), 710 E. Roy St., Seattle WA 98102 $10-$22 Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 8 – 9pm

Seattle Opera: Don Giovanni You’ve seen the bus ads; you’ve seen the TV spots, all abs and motorcycles; so you know Seattle Opera is going for the boom-chick-a-mow-mow in this revival of director Chris Alexander’s coolly decadent 2007 production of Mozart’s dramedy. Nicolas Cavallier and Mark Walters share the title role, and Lawrence Brownlee, one of today’s busiest and most acclaimed bel canto tenors, returns as the cuckolded Don Ottavio. In Italian with English supertitles. (Seven performances through Nov. 1.)  McCaw Hall (Seattle Center), 321 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 $25-$223 Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 7:30pm

Seattle Opera: Don Giovanni You’ve seen the bus ads; you’ve seen the TV spots, all abs and motorcycles; so you know Seattle Opera is going for the boom-chick-a-mow-mow in this revival of director Chris Alexander’s coolly decadent 2007 production of Mozart’s dramedy. Nicolas Cavallier and Mark Walters share the title role, and Lawrence Brownlee, one of today’s busiest and most acclaimed bel canto tenors, returns as the cuckolded Don Ottavio. In Italian with English supertitles. (Seven performances through Nov. 1.)  McCaw Hall (Seattle Center), 321 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 $25-$223 Friday, October 31, 2014, 7:30pm

Seattle Opera: Don Giovanni You’ve seen the bus ads; you’ve seen the TV spots, all abs and motorcycles; so you know Seattle Opera is going for the boom-chick-a-mow-mow in this revival of director Chris Alexander’s coolly decadent 2007 production of Mozart’s dramedy. Nicolas Cavallier and Mark Walters share the title role, and Lawrence Brownlee, one of today’s busiest and most acclaimed bel canto tenors, returns as the cuckolded Don Ottavio. In Italian with English supertitles. (Seven performances through Nov. 1.)  McCaw Hall (Seattle Center), 321 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 $25-$223 Saturday, November 1, 2014, 7:30pm

Compline Services A half-hour meditation each week with the eight-voice Renaissance Singers. St. Clement of Rome Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S., Seattle Free Sunday, November 2, 2014, 7:30 – 8pm

Compline Services A half-hour meditation each week with the eight-voice Renaissance Singers. St. Clement of Rome Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S., Seattle Free Sunday, November 9, 2014, 7:30 – 8pm