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SeattleMorlot Conducts The Sounds of Spring

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Bridge, Adams, Schumann
Seattle Symphony; Ludovic Morlot; Conor Hanick

SeattleLeila Josefowicz Returns

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Chin, Szymanowski, Stravinsky
Seattle Symphony; Jonathan Stockhammer; Leila Josefowicz

SeattleTchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Zarathustra

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Tchaikovsky, Strauss R.
Seattle Symphony; Xian Zhang; Tony Siqi Yun

SeattleMozart’s Requiem with Xian

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Pereira, Mozart
Seattle Symphony; Xian Zhang; Eric Schweikert; Mei Gui Zhang; Sarah Larsen; Eric Ferring

SeattleElf In Concert With The Seattle Symphony

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Seattle Symphony

SeattleHandel’s Messiah

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Handel: Messiah
Seattle Symphony; Jean-Sébastien Vallée; Sarah Dufresne; Nicholas Burns; James Ley; Enrico Lagasca
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From chamber intimacy to the edge of chaos: Ehnes and Zhang in Seattle

Xian Zhang conducts the Seattle Symphony © Seattle Symphony | James Holt
James Ehnes brings chamber-like intimacy to Bruch before Xian Zhang drives Symphonie fantastique from private obsession to hallucinatory spectacle.
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Sasha Cooke brings sharp intelligence to Seattle Opera’s Carmen

Sasha Cooke (Carmen) and Christian Pursell (Escamillo) © Sunny Martini
Sasha Cooke’s thoughtful role debut anchors Paul Curran’s visually and musically alert but dramatically uneven production.
****1
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Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

The Seattle Symphony © Jon Pendleton
The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.
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A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Heidi Stober © Sunny Martini

Presented without staging, Seattle Opera’s concert Daphne places Strauss’ extreme vocal demands and saturated orchestral writing in sharp relief, offering a high-risk encounter with a rarely heard late opera.

****1
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Ioffe conducts the Seattle Symphony in varied faces of Romanticism

Alevtina Ioffe conducts the Seattle Symphony © James Holt | Seattle Symphony
Barber and Bernstein shine in this program exploring sharply contrasting faces of 20th-century Romanticism under guest conductor Alevtina Ioffe.
****1
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Ivars Taurins leads the Seattle Symphony in Baroque feast

Ivars Taurins conducts the Seattle Symphony © James Holt | The Seattle Symphony

A lean Seattle Symphony under guest conductor Ivars Taurins brings stylish energy to Baroque orchestral theater by Telemann, Hasse and Handel.

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The crisis facing US classical music: Douglas McLennan

President Trump at the Kennedy Center © Daniel Torok | The White House
Longtime music journalist and founder of ArtsJournal talks about the multiple crises facing orchestras and arts organisations in the United States, amid the damage wrought by the second Trump administration.