Artículos de Hilary Stroh

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.  

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

With the Kauffmann Center approaching its tenth anniversary, we look at how the building has breathed life into the arts scene in a city that was formerly considered flyover country.

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.