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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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.  

Adam Hougland's premiere of Carmina Burana in Kansas City. 

World premiere of Daniel Kellogg's The Golden Spike with the Kansas City Symphony.

Alison Moritz's alluring production of The Abduction from the Seraglio for Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Company and World Premieres to round out KC'S ballet season

Andrew Sinclair and Zandra Rhodes' hugely colourful and affecting “Pearl Fishers” for Kansas City Lyric Opera

Jean-Guihen Queyras is the soloist in Lalo's rarely performed Cello Concerto. 

The seven world premieres all bore a certain unity, lacking and joy or wit, although Gary Abbott's Parallel Lives stands out.  

Jane Glover conducts a skittish Mozart's Così fan tutte for Kansas City's Lyric Opera.

An energetic performance from the Kansas City Symphony with Alessio Bax and David Lockington.

Kansas City Ballet premieres Val Caniparoli and Robert de la Rose's Impressionistic ballet

Devon Carney's fantasy-forward take on the holiday classic. 

A triumphant world première of Septime Webre's Wizard of Oz in Kansas City. 

Beethoven, Kurth and Grieg under the baton of Michael Stern.

Zambello's politically re-'woke' West Side Story comes to Kansas.