Etiqueta: Carlos J. Lopez
SSO and Ludovic Morlot struggle with Beethoven. Once again
The first concert of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2017 was dedicated to the spirituality, as a key side of humanity. French conductor Ludovic...
Purgatory is not that bad, after all – SSO performs Elgar’s...
Deeply influenced by the music of Richard Wagner (the use of leitmotiv and the continuous melody are easily identifiable) The Dream of Gerontius has...
An intense Russian evening with the Seattle Symphony and Lucas Debargue
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra SSO and the guest conductor Mikhail Agrest offered last Thursday a concert of their Masterwork Series at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The event was also the debut of...
Seattle Symphony Orchestra: the unstoppable power of Romanticism
A new Seattle Symphony Orchestra concert took place at the Benaroya Hall last Thursday, featuring a Romantic program which included works by Berlioz, Sibelius...
Hansel and Gretel by the Seattle Opera, way more than a...
The roles of Hansel and Gretel were served by former Seattle Opera Young Artists mezzo Sarah Larsen and soprano Anya Matanovic. Both should be...
Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman with the SSO, the perfect storm...
Two world-class legends of the classical music, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, arrived in Seattle to perform two unrepeatable concerts with the Seattle Symphony...
A new remarkable evening of the SSO, despite a disastrous start
Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra offered last Thursday at the Benaroya Hall a remarkable concert of its Masterworks series. The program included...
The SSO wraps two generations of Prokofievs in Beethoven
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra presented last Thursday the first concert of its Masterworks series at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The program included Beethoven’s...
Wagner's The Flying Dutchman at the Seattle Opera
In the vocal plan, the SO features a well-balanced cast of Wagnerian singers, led by the strong stage presence of bass-baritone Greer Grimsley (The Dutchman). His...
SSO tributes Shakespeare in a concert dedicated to the night featuring...
Yesterday’s Seattle Symphony Orchestra concert featured the appearance of tenor Mark Padmore and the singers of the Seattle Symphony Chorale in works of Mendelssohn,...
Too much testosterone at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra appeared in a new concert featuring Russian conductor Mijhail Tatarnikov and the young Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan. The evening included works of...
Kopatchinskaja saved Seattle concertgoers from boredom
The SSO did not excel yesterday at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle, in a concert featuring New York-born conductor David Zinman and violinist Patricia...