More than Friends -Lowbrow Opera Collective
More than Friends-A triptych on Queer Love through the Ages. Although I generally like traditional grand operas, as long as […]
Opera
Music of Remembrance: Another Sunrise & For a Look or a Touch
Music of Remembrance delves into the depths of memory and trauma with a heart-rending and touching set of performances
Another Sunrise and For a Look or a Touch was a Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer double bill put on by Music of Remembrance, While only showing in Seattle for one day, it is playing again in San Francisco on May 24th and Chicago on May 27th and 28th.
La Traviata: An Enchanting Evening of the Boundaries of Love, Anger, and Forgiveness
La Traviata is being put on by the Seattle Opera, and was an absolutely enchanting show. It offers insight into the very boundaries of love, high-society, and forgiveness throughout its action-packed acts.
Preview-Lowbrow Opera Collective
Evening of Songs and Discussion about queerness, art etc.
Low-Brow Collective is looking forward to getting together with their beautiful community this week! Local singing talent Trevor Ainge (he/him, tenor), and Jared White (he/him, baritone) will offer selections from their upcoming production Achilles & Patroclus (composition by Erika Meyer, libretto by James T. Washburn), and Christine Oshiki (she/her, soprano) will present Seven Songs of Emily Dickinson (composition by Erika Meyer), with the imitable Beth Grimmett-Tankersley (she/her) on the piano!
The Elixir of Love is Being Poured
On August 6th, the renowned Seattle Opera finally lifted its curtain at McCaw Hall with its season opener, Elixir of Love.
Review-THE FUN AND FANTASY of THE MAGIC FLUTE
You know you’re in for a comic treat of an opera when after an introductory serving of serious music, you’re greeted with the specter of a hapless prince being mauled by a dragon. The Magic Flute is a mash-up of genres- part fairy tale, part circus and part religious pageant flouting astronomy and ancient Egypt. Here spectacle reigns supreme. The opera is packed full of sensory overload, with treats for the eyes, ears and the mind too. Seattle Opera’s newest production of The Magic Flute just opened at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center and will run till May 21st.
The Rape of Lucretia-Opera
For $35 a ticket one does not expect Bayreuth, but one does expect to be able to see the singers and the set
The rarely performed, The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, is definitely for opera addicts; that is to say, for people so in love with operatic music that they will sit through any opera, even if the libretto is a dud, and even if, as was the case with the Vespertine Opera’s production at St. Mark’s Cathedral, the audience can not even see the singers on the stage.