Philippa Kiraly
Philippa Kiraly has been a classical music critic for more than 30 years. She wrote for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio and, after moving to Seattle in 1991, for the Sun Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nowadays she writes for The Sun Break blog, The Seattle Times and City Arts.
Recent Articles
Women Abandoned at Seattle Opera
Women who have been abandoned are a motif running through both short works on Seattle Opera’s current double bill, one by a lover, the other by her family. And in...
A superb performance by Hilary Hahn
There are great expectations of Hilary Hahn whenever, wherever she performs, and this week at Benaroya Hall was no exception. Her performance of Sibelius’ Violin...
Vespertine Opera Theater's Surreal 'Breasts of Tiresias'
Definition of Surrealism: The principles, ideals or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery in art or literature by means of unnatural juxtapositions...
Seattle Pro Musica's Songs of Spring
Seattle Pro Musica is never boring. Its concerts bring us all sorts of recently composed music of astonishing variety, knit together with a theme and sung with...
UW World Series: Juilliard String Quartet
In a couple of centuries when people look back at our time, will they regard Elliott Carter as a 20th century Beethoven? Unlikely. Probably more like the 16th...
Our Earth: A Trilogy of Environmental Operas
Sue Elliott’s biography at Seattle Opera requires three lines to describe what she does, so it was no surprise to find a creative, enthusiastic woman whose face...
Seattle Opera's Colorful Cinderella
It’s a child’s palette on stage at McCaw Hall for Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella). Think of a six-year-old with untrammeled imagination and a new box of...
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