Creative highs are Locally Sourced in Seattle

By Philippa Kiraly, 11 November 2019

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Reviewed at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle on 8 November 2019

F O I L (Eva Stone)

Love and Loss (Donald Byrd)

Wash of Gray (Miles Pertl)

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Lucien Postlewaite, Dancer

Leta Biasucci, Dancer

Sarah Pasch, Dancer

Pacific Northwest Ballet closes its digital season by looking back

Graham Watts, 18th June

An assortment of oddments from the repertoire to honour seven departing PNB dancers.

***11

Choreography with the camera in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Rep 2

Annie Nikunen, 16th November

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rep 2 features an all-female choreographer program with world premieres by Penny Saunders and Jessica Lang and excerpts from the work of Twyla Tharp and Susan Marshall.

*****

A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Thomas May, 16th January

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

Mozart meets Vaudeville in Seattle's silent movie Magic Flute

Erica Miner, 22nd February

Eye-popping, hand-drawn animation melds with Mozart's fantastical world and the silent film era to create a colorful and energetic new-to-Seattle production.

***11

African American spirituals ring out in world premiere of Jubilee

Erica Miner, 12th October

A world premiere opera about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the intrepid troupe of African American singers who changed music history.

*****

Alcina in Seattle: captivating, flirtatious, sometimes weird

Rosie Rogers, 25th October

Thoughtful cuts, an extremely skillful orchestra and active, inventive staging made this sexy dark comedy engrossing and highly watchable.

*****

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Philippa Kiraly

Philippa Kiraly has writing classical music criticism since 1980, for several newspapers in northern Ohio and Seattle, magazines, both local and national, and blogs. She has covered dance in Seattle for a decade. Pippa has been steeped in classical music since early childhood and is passionate about the importance of independent criticism for the fine arts, an art in itself. Pippa is a keen gardener, a keen grandparent, and can get lost in a good book.