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Hung Dance: BIRDY

Hung Dance: BIRDY

November 19 at 8pm +2

Meany Center for the Performing Arts · University of Washington • $5

Eight dancers from Taiwan weave together Chinese opera, Tai Chi, and myth in a bold, fluid exploration of freedom and constraint. Rattan poles and flowing pheasant feathers transform the stage into something deeply human and quietly powerful.

Seattle Symphony: Xian Zhang - Mozart's Requiem

Seattle Symphony: Xian Zhang - Mozart's Requiem

November 21 at 8pm (Next weekend)

Benaroya Hall · Downtown Seattle • $64

Mozart's final masterpiece, left hauntingly unfinished at his death, gets the full treatment from Gramophone Award-winning conductor Xian Zhang and the Seattle Symphony. Expect thunder, tenderness, and Benaroya Hall's gorgeous acoustics doing every note justice.

Jamie Barton in Recital

Jamie Barton in Recital

November 21 at 7:30pm (Next weekend)

McCaw Hall · Uptown

Jamie Barton brings her powerhouse mezzo-soprano and serious stage presence to McCaw Hall for an intimate evening of song, accompanied by pianist Kathleen Kelly.

El último sueño de Frida y Diego

El último sueño de Frida y Diego

January 16 at 2pm +11

McCaw Hall · Uptown

Diego Rivera longs to paint with Frida one last time in this opera where the dead walk among the living. Pulitzer winners Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz weave a lush, visual love story across the threshold of El Día de los Muertos.

Seattle Opera: El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego

Seattle Opera: El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego

January 24 at 10pm

McCaw Hall · Uptown • $99

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reunite in the afterlife for one final dream. Seattle Opera's Spanish-language production turns their tempestuous love into lush, surreal spectacle.

Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima

Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima

January 24 at 4pm

Town Hall Seattle · Downtown Seattle

GRAMMY-winning soprano Amanda Forsythe joins period ensemble Opera Prima for an evening of 17th-century Italian masterpieces, plumbing the passions of the human soul in Town Hall's soaring Great Hall.

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