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Must List: Chilly Hilly Bike Ride, Seattle Opera Presents Mary Stuart
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Pedal
Brave the Temps for the Chilly Hilly Bike Ride
Sunday (2/28, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Zip up those fleeces and head to Bainbridge Island to saddle up for the Chilly Hilly bike ride, where keen (or crazy?) cyclists will take on the 33-mile route reaching a top elevation of 2,191 feet to beat the cold. Start your adventure on the ferry from Seattle over Puget Sound to Bainbridge Island (from $35), or meet the bikers on Bainbridge at Winslow Way (from $30) and be ready to ride.
Must Bravo
Seattle Opera Presents Mary Stuart
(2/27 to 3/12, times vary) Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 work about the conflict between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots is the rare musical dramatization of a battle of wills between two powerful women in history; one triumphant, the other vanquished. The fate of two nations and religious faiths would be changed forever by the outcome.
Must Hear
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at Meany Theater
Sunday (2/28, 2 p.m.) Expect this most familiar and frequently heard classical music composition to be given new life in this performance by the virtuoso Pacific MusicWorks orchestra, which will lend its early music insight to the work.
Must Listen
Writer Timothy Egan to Discuss New Book at Town Hall
Tuesday (3/1, 7:30 p.m.) National Book Award–winning Seattle writer and New York Times columnist Timothy Egan has for years offered an alternate Northwest perspective to readers of the nation’s paper of record, weighing in on topics such as resource management, religious faith and social isolation. At Town Hall, he will discuss his new book, The Immortal Irishman, about Irish revolutionary, refugee and American Civil War hero Thomas Francis Meagher.
Must See
Last Chance to Catch The Figure In Process: Da Kooning to Kapoor
(Through 2/28, times vary) The inaugural show at Paul Allen’s new Pivot Art + Culture, housed in the new Allen Institute for Brain Science in South Lake Union, includes 20 works by Francis Bacon, Barry X Ball, Jonas Burgert, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, David Hockney, Y.Z. Kami and Anish Kapoor.
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