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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.

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. 

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 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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Was für ein furioser Einstieg: Matthias Pintscher, der frischgebackene Chefdirigent des Kansas City Symphony entführt sein Orchester direkt am Anfang seiner ersten Spielzeit über den großen Teich zu einer Europatournee.