Icebreaker V: Love & War, Feb. 26-28On the BoardsOnce again Icebreaker has come and gone. After presenting it five times, I think the Seattle Chamber Players have really gotten the hang of it. My first Icebreaker was two years ago. It consisted of two decidedly mixed evenings...
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The Rake's Progress
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by W.H. Auden & Chester Kallman
Now through November 21st at the Royal Theatre in Victoria, BC
Since The Rake's Progress premiered in 1951, it has been considered a modern classic. Indeed, it might just be one...
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OK, before I go on and on about how much I'm looking forward to seeing Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in Victoria next month, a quick word about the Seattle Opera's production of La Traviata. It's good; go see it. I'm not going to give it a full review, becaus...
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The Best of All Possible Rings
by Igor Keller
Wagner’s four-opera Ring Cycle is at once magnificent and ridiculous.It is 16-plus hours of – among other things – greed, betrayal, vengeance, incest, defiance and love set in the framework of Germanic myths.As operatic works g...
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“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.” – Voltaire
I’ve seen Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro before. It was a while ago, perhaps even longer than that. I’d never had any strong feelings about it, as I...
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