Month: March 2018
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For much of its most recent history, the Seattle Symphony has been associated with the music of Sibelius. The composer’s works were frequently performed by the orchestra during Gerard Schwarz’s tenure, and in 2015, Thomas Dausgaard drew on the orchestra’s familiarity with Sibelius’ idiom for performances of all seven symphonies, an experience that has stayed…
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For the 2017-2018 season, Berlioz’s comedic opera Beatrice and Benedict is receiving its Seattle Opera premiere. But in a sense, its Pacific Northwest debut is also a world ‘re-premiere’. Fusing Berlioz’s score with Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing (on which the opera is based), the Seattle Opera created a new, English-language production (the original Béatrice et Bénédict is in French).…