Sunny Martini Every time I experience live music, something shifts inside of me. That wasn’t any different for Seattle Opera’s opening night of “Alcina” — composed by Frideric Handel and libretto by Riccardo Broschi — on Oct. 14. As soon as I walked into the performance room I felt like my soul suddenly came back to my body,…
Sophia Bruscato | The Seattle Collegian With its closing performance on May 21, the Seattle Opera featured Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s much loved tale, “La Traviata” (The Fallen Woman). The production featured South African singer Vuvu Mpofo and German singer Mané Galoyan as alternating sopranos for the leading character Violetta, along with Dominick Chenes and Duke Kim as her counterpart and…
AFP On Oct. 19, 2022, I had the privilege of attending the Seattle Opera’s opening night of “Tristan and Isolde.” Once the public settled in, the lights turned down, and the orchestra commenced Richard Wagner’s famous prelude marked by the Tristan chord. After 12 minutes of pure orchestrated music, and the quiet and attentive souls of…