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Review of Seattle Opera's Elektra

Elektra-fying ExperienceExcellent opera production causes local writer to employ terrible pun! First of all, Richard Strauss’ Elektra is a masterpiece, plain and simple - beautiful, powerful and short. It is one of the very few operas that actually has ever made me lose sense of spac... [More]

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Posted on October 23, 2008 07:29 by Igor Keller
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Beware of Knife-Wielding Clowns!

Seattle Opera performs Pagliacci at McCaw Hall through January 26th Ah, the sad, murderous clown! Where would opera be without you? Well, we certainly wouldn’t have Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (or Verdi’s Rigoletto, too, but we’re not talking about that). We might... [More]

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Posted on January 25, 2008 11:01 by Igor Keller
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Categories: music | stage and dance
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A Messiah to Remember

In the wake of the New York Times stinging article about the Seattle Symphony and its players’ rather stormy relationship with conductor and music director, Gerard Schwarz, you’d think that the performance of Handel’s Messiah would somehow reflect that ongoing tension. Not... [More]

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Posted on December 20, 2007 11:20 by Igor Keller
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Seattle International Film Festival

May 24 - June 18, 2006 Seattle - Bellevue, Washington Under wet rainy skies over the holiday weekend, a trio of hot film tickets brought out hundreds of filmgoers to see X-Men 3 fill the screen with live-action comic book heroes and muscle-bound beefcake, Tom Cruise find yet an... [More]

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Posted on June 1, 2006 08:59 by Eric Gould
Tags: seattle international film festival, film festival, film, movies
Categories: media art and cinema | music
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Feast Your Ears: Dead Rock Stars and Music Films at SIFF

Dead rock stars – no matter how young or old, how sad or tragic the death – live on forever in the popular imagination and culture. Their names, like an honor roll from pop’s hall of fame, capture a singular image; an icon of youthful passion, independence and rebellion. J... [More]

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Future Shock and the Aesthetics of Anticipation

1960’s Electric Arts: From Kinetic Sculpture to Media Environments Seattle Art Museum, Wednesday 2 March 2005 Co-presented by dorkbot-sea, Seattle Art Museum and CoCA In an energetic film presentation “1960s Electric Arts,” Media Arts Historian Robin Oppenheimer ... [More]

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Sassy Eartha Kitt brings her legendary cabaret to Seattle

Last Saturday night I saw Eartha Kitt perform an hour-and-a-half set at the Jazz Alley. While my expectations were high to begin with, I did not anticipate an evening of music and comedy that would rank among the very best I have ever seen. The sassy seventy-seven year-old singer — lo... [More]

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Posted on May 24, 2004 09:49 by Jim Demetre
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Kraftwerk: Press Play

Hey, where did the time go? Before you check your Smart Watch to get the latest news in headlines, stock ticker and weather forecasts, do you remember 1975? Remember what life was like before SARS, Y2K, and email? Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall? Before dot-coms, raves, grunge, and C... [More]

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Review of Seattle Opera's Elektra

Beware of Knife-Wielding Clowns!

A Messiah to Remember

Seattle International Film Festival

Feast Your Ears: Dead Rock Stars and Music Films at SIFF

Future Shock and the Aesthetics of Anticipation

Sassy Eartha Kitt brings her legendary cabaret to Seattle

Kraftwerk: Press Play