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Septime Webre’s dazzling, maximalist Great Gatsby for the Kansas City Ballet is instantly engaging.

Carlisle Floyd's operatic setting of John Steinbeck’s classic novella is given a new production in the composer's centenary year at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Kansas City Ballet celebrate the USA’s 250th anniversary with three American ballets. Balanchine's Stars and Stripes, de Mille's Rodeo and a new work by Caili Quan, A Home Away.

Francesca Zambello's magnificent production of the Gershwins’ American epic comes to the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. 

Swan Lake opens the season for Kansas City Ballet in a splendid looking production and with very pleasing interpretations.

Michael Shell's sparkling new production of La Cenerentola, built locally, opens the season at the Lyric Opera Kansas City. 

Lyric Opera of Kansas City ends its season with Garnett Bruce's blockbuster production of Puccini's Turandot. 

Kansas City Ballet's first love affair with Don Quixote is a striking and well-danced success.

Webre’s screwball ALICE (in Wonderland) for the Kansas City Ballet is colorful and packed with excellent performances.

Based on letters between Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, Kevin Puts’ The Brightness of Light at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City portrays marriage as a collaborative work in progress. 

Balanchine's Jewels for the Kansas City Ballet is a very pleasing way to end the season.

New Moves for Kansas City Ballet is a great way to spot new choreographic talent.

A visually captivating and lyrically authentic production by Doug Scholz-Carlson for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Devon Carney's Peter Pan is alluring and terrifically comic: tantrums, sulking, pranks and fun, all thrown into the mix.

Kansas City Ballet's The Nutcracker charms young and young at heart. 

Enthralling, intense and terrifying, yet compellingly watchable. It may send chills down the spine but it is quite brilliantly portrayed. 

Shawna Lucey directs verismo's inseparable twins in the Lyric Opera of Kansas City's outstanding season opener. 

Alexander Ekman's Cacti is the zany highlight of the evening! 

The Uzbek pianist returns to Kansas City for a wonderful recital including Dilorom Saidaminova’s The Walls of Ancient Bukhara. 

The composer's powerful When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd anchored a thought-provoking program led by Michael Stern.

Pianist Ray Ushikubo turns violinist in his star turn with the Kansas City Symphony and Thomas Wilkins. 

“Here's Johnny!” Paul Moravec’s opera, based on Stanley Kubrick's film of Stephen King's novel, proves gripping in Eric Simonson's production. 

Matthias Pintscher revels in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, once described as a “bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows”, while George Li plays Ravel. 

Devon Carney's Cinderella is fast-moving and busy, with the stepsisters cavorting across the stage as the epitome of pantomime dames

Maria Ioudenitch joins the Symphony for Samuel Barber's popular Violin Concerto. 

An engaging and emotionally authentic rendition of the 19th-century classic features Kaleena Burks in the title role.

This year's winner in the Piano Category of the George Enescu International Competition opens up about the challenges of being in the spotlight and what now lies ahead of her.

A well-sung, traditional production of Carmen opens the season for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Gil Shaham is the outstanding soloist in Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto as a new season gets under way. 

Beilman plays the world premiere of Chris Rogerson’s Violin Concerto no. 1 “The Little Prince” with the Kansas City Symphony under Gemma New.

Septime Webre's irrepressible reinvention of Dorothy, Kansas and Oz is back at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Ryan McAdams conducts Tosca at the Kansas City Lyric Opera in a production by a famous former Tosca, Carol Vaness. 

We spoke to Hanna Arie-Gaifman, Director Emeritus of the Tisch Center, New York, about the richly layered backstory involving generations of Bachs and Mendelssohns and Itzigs, and how this will be explored in the upcoming festival.

A refined but unromantic rendition of Brahms' Violin Concerto by Midori following compelling account of Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour and Debussy's La Mer. 

Twilight of a Tech God: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Liang Fu impresses as a regal and macabre, majestic and creepy Dracula in Michael Pink's ballet.

Tchaikovsky Gold Medallist Zlatamoir Fung also makes his Kansas City debut playing the Rococo Variations. 

Devon Carney’s wittily choreographed Nutcracker returns to charm the Kauffman stage. 

Goosby's decisive Bruch strikes the right tone in a programme which includes the world premiere – of sorts – of Stuart Murray Turnbull's Odyssey. 

Serenades, Siberia and a little Celtic nostalgia as Kansas City Ballet returns to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Gian Carlo Menotti's seasonal opera, performed in Kansas City, finds a new audience online. 

The tradition of the great opera houses perhaps cannot stand unless we recommit ourselves to singing arias in the shower.

Sarah Coburn triumphs in Shawna Lucey's production of Donizetti's masterpiece. 

Visiting conductor Matthew Halls in a programme of Haydn, MacMillan and Beethoven.

Kaleena Burks impresses in her role as Odette/Odile in Kansas City Ballet's Swan Lake. 

Janáček's The Fiddler’s Child and Mozart's 39th Symphony complete a varied program under Michael Stern.

A sprightly program of Beethoven, anti-Beethoven and Bartók.

We spoke to pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze about what happened after his victory at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition.

Kathleen Belcher's production is well sung and vividly characterized – but a focus on the comedy comes at the expense of pathos

Michael Stern conducts Bruckner's Seventh and Stravinksy's Psalms.