Margaret

Last night, Seattlest was a cliché. We sat and sobbed through the entire Seattle Opera production of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Strauss's music is lush, lush, lush, and the SO orchestra played it masterfully under the sure hand of conductor Asher Fisch. The music seems to be Richard's homage... continue reading on Seattlest

Forget Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. The true blockbuster of the summer is Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society's Pirates of Penzance, playing at the Bagley Wright Theatre at Seattle Center. As with any Gilbert and Sullivan play, Pirates' plot does not stand up to rigorous analysis, and the... continue reading on Seattlest

This weekend, the Northwest Chamber Chorus will present its final concert of the year. They have built their program around three composers whose last names start with the letter "b": Billings, Bruckner, and Bernstein. From their website: Northwest Chamber Chorus concludes its concert season by featuring the Mass in e... continue reading on Seattlest

Seattlest learned a very important lesson Saturday night: always look at your press pack before the end of the second intermission. If you wait until then, you may miss out on intermissing in the press room. Ah well. More important than any press room gathering was the reason we were... continue reading on Seattlest

This Friday you will have the chance to hear tomorrow’s jazz stars today! It’s the 10th anniversary of the Hot Java, Cool Jazz concert at the Paramount, sponsored by Starbucks. The five schools performing tomorrow are Garfield, Roosevelt, Edmonds Woodway, Mountlake Terrace and Shorewood. Seattlest has never been to the... continue reading on Seattlest