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    Articles by Gavin Borchert
    Focile and Shenyang as Susanna and Figaro at their wedding dance. Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera
    An interesting letter is found in the program...
    By Gavin Borchert • January 19, 2016 6:56 pm

    An interesting letter is found in the program for Seattle Opera’s staging of The Marriage of Figaro that opened Saturday….

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    Focile and Shenyang as Susanna and Figaro at their wedding dance. Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera
    An interesting letter is found in the program...
    By Gavin Borchert • January 18, 2016 4:33 pm

    An interesting letter is found in the program for Seattle Opera’s staging of The Marriage of Figaro that opened Saturday. Written by…

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    Triangle in Berlin: Earp, Adam Somers (center), and Wildrick. Mark Kitaoka/Village Theatre
    You’d never know it from Liza Minnelli’s performance...
    By Gavin Borchert • May 15, 2015 10:40 am

    You’d never know it from Liza Minnelli’s performance in the 1972 Bob Fosse film, but Sally Bowles—one of the great…

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    Photo by Bruce Tom
    “Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how...
    By Gavin Borchert • May 5, 2015 6:16 pm

    “Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes the diverse musicians she’s spotlighting on the next…

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    “Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes
    “Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how...
    By Gavin Borchert • May 4, 2015 3:30 pm

    “Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes the diverse musicians she’s spotlighting on the next…

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    Aylward's Big Daddy.Chris Bennion
    The choice of Laura Griffith and Brandon O’Neill...
    By Gavin Borchert • April 27, 2015 4:19 pm

    The choice of Laura Griffith and Brandon O’Neill for Maggie and Brick—two examples of the superb casting of ACT’s current…

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    Above: Trimpin (left) and Morlot in rehearsal. Below: the score and the prepared piano.
    “Do I have to use musicians?” was Trimpin’s...
    By Gavin Borchert • April 21, 2015 11:39 am

    “Do I have to use musicians?” was Trimpin’s first question when planning began for his new commission for the Seattle…

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    Hawke, at right, clearly venerates his subject.Ramsey Fendall/Risk Love LLC
    Right from the first scene, in which pianist...
    By Gavin Borchert • March 16, 2015 5:38 pm

    Right from the first scene, in which pianist Seymour Bernstein talks his way through his thought process for fingering a…

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    Rae’s Semele with Alek Shrader’s Jupiter.
    The spectacle is what’s been hyped about Seattle...
    By Gavin Borchert • March 2, 2015 4:54 pm

    The spectacle is what’s been hyped about Seattle Opera’s production of Handel’s Semele, but the music is why you shouldn’t…

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    Left: Eager Sounders fans cluster behind the team’s bench. Right: pre-game stretches.
    Even on an absolutely cloudless day, the light...
    By Gavin Borchert • February 25, 2015 11:44 am

    Even on an absolutely cloudless day, the light in Arizona is pale, washed-out, yellow-white—nothing like the electric lemon of an…

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    O’Neill’s Billy Bigelow with Laura Griffith’s Julie.
    With its tricky mix of kitchen-sink realism, cornpone...
    By Gavin Borchert • February 17, 2015 10:58 am

    With its tricky mix of kitchen-sink realism, cornpone Americana, and supernatural fantasy—and not an overabundance of likable characters—what this 1945…

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    Stab him! Stundyte and Grimsley in Tosca.
    Here’s a question: Does anyone actually like Tosca?...
    By Gavin Borchert • January 12, 2015 6:02 pm

    Here’s a question: Does anyone actually like Tosca? Not Puccini’s 1900 opera, I mean, but its title character. At Seattle…

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    The one disheartening thing about Robbie Rogers’ Coming Out to Play (Penguin,
    The one disheartening thing about Robbie Rogers’ Coming...
    By Gavin Borchert • December 3, 2014 11:51 am

    The one disheartening thing about Robbie Rogers’ Coming Out to Play (Penguin, $17), the newest entry in its genre—Memoir League,…

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    Taylor’s Elizabeth (left) with Rebecca Olson as sister Jane.
    Pride and Prejudice Center Theatre at the Armory...
    By Gavin Borchert • December 1, 2014 6:04 pm

    Pride and Prejudice Center Theatre at the Armory 
(Seattle Center), 216-0833, book-it.org. 
$25–$60. Runs Wed.–Sun. Ends Dec. 28. It is…

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    Schenkman (rear center) and colleagues.
    Though you’d think a nickname so catchy could...
    By Gavin Borchert • November 14, 2014 11:55 am

    Though you’d think a nickname so catchy could have taken root, as far as I know Carl Maria von Weber…

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    Lobo as Leo (with Audi’s Gabriel seated behind).
    The Way He Looks Opens Fri., Nov. 7...
    By Gavin Borchert • November 3, 2014 4:50 pm

    The Way He Looks Opens Fri., Nov. 7 at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated. 95 minutes. Leo, from Sao Paulo, is…

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    “Indian summer” is a term often applied to Richard Strauss’ last works,
    “Indian summer” is a term often applied to...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 28, 2014 6:53 pm

    “Indian summer” is a term often applied to Richard Strauss’ last works, in which he set aside the sensationalism of…

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    In 1945, the elderly Strauss had much to grieve for.
    “Indian summer” is a term often applied to...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 28, 2014 12:23 pm

    “Indian summer” is a term often applied to Richard Strauss’ last works, in which he set aside the sensationalism of…

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    Busswood's forlorn Rose. Michael Brunk
    The title of this musical—based on the affecting...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 27, 2014 2:10 pm

    The title of this musical—based on the affecting 1991 movie—refers to a hideous sort of male-bonding competition among a group…

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    What’s a nice girl like her doing with him? Cavallier and Hall.
    These days, the sexual politics in Mozart’s Don...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 14, 2014 3:50 pm

    These days, the sexual politics in Mozart’s Don Giovanni are nearly impossible to navigate. The zeitgeist can’t tolerate the glamorization…

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    Unfrozen entertainers Hoffer (left) and Andriessen. Photo by Nate Waters
    Two song-and-dance artistes, touring Antarctica in the ’20s,...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 13, 2014 12:22 pm

    Two song-and-dance artistes, touring Antarctica in the ’20s, get frozen in an avalanche for 90-some years and stage a post-thaw…

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    Deaver (left) and Kent. Alan Alabastro
    Festively asserting that too much is never enough,...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 13, 2014 12:22 pm

    Festively asserting that too much is never enough, TZZ’s new show keeps its dinner-cabaret formula fresh with acts that mash…

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    Mary Lambert, Heart on My Sleeve (Oct. 14, Capitol Records, mary lambertsings.com)
    Michael Nicolella, Complete Bach Cello Suites  Out now,...
    By Gavin Borchert • October 7, 2014 6:26 pm

    Michael Nicolella, Complete Bach Cello Suites Out now, Gale Recordings, nicolella.com/cds.htm Of the six suites Johann Sebastian Bach composed for…

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