Explore the 1969/70 Die Fledermaus Program!
with Glenn Ross in 1970
Explore the 1970/71 Marriage of Figaro Program!
Explore the 1975/76 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
An Aida featuring several RING singers.
Seattle Opera’s first original commissioned work.
Explore the 1973/74 Cosi Fan Tutte Program!
Explore the 1977/78 Falstaff Program!
A fantastic cast brings Bizet’s stunning opera alive.
Glynn Ross begins introducing his favorite opera tetralogy to Seattle.
Explore the 1970/71 Don Carlo Program!
A cast substitution with unexpected results.
A second Ring opera is added to Seattle’s repertory.
Explore the 1969/70 Force of Destiny Program!
Explore the 1975/76 Aida Program!
Explore the 1977 Ring Program.
Hear the voice of Noel Tyl, one of our first Wotans.
Explore the 1973/74 Daughter of the Regiment Program!
Our only performance of this charming operetta.
Featuring the meltingly honeyed voice of Leo Goeke in the title role.
A new Brünnhilde headlined our second complete cycle.
Mary Costa was an attractive Desdemona.
A favorite young composer of ours in the 1970s!
Explore the 1974/75 Ring Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Gotterdammerung Program!
Explore the 1979/80 La Traviata Program!
A 1978 production of Bizet’s thrilling opera.
Hear the bass who was with us from before the beginning.
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s resident tenor in the ’70s!
Explore the 1969/70 Of Mice and Men Program!
Explore the 1970/71Madama Butterfly Program!
Explore the 1976/77 Cinderella Program!
Explore the 1973/74 Siegfried Program!
A multi-national cast brought Verdi’s tuneful melodrama to Seattle.
Our first production directed, designed, and built entirely in-house!
Opera education and outreach, ’70s-style!
A pioneer opera education program, which later became a model for programs nationwide.
Explore the 1973/74 Rigoletto Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s first Music and Education Director!
Explore the 1978/79 Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
Explore the 1976 Ring Program!
Explore the 1977/78 Boris Godunov Program!
This Sarajevo Opera production starred some of Yugoslavia’s greatest singers.
Explore the 1970/71 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Explore the 1971/72 Black Widow Program!
Cinderella comes to Seattle Opera for the first time.
The first time the world ended at Seattle Opera!
Explore the 1973/74 Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci Program!
A sexy devil bewitched Seattle Opera in 1974.
Explore the 1978/79 La Boheme Program!
Explore the 1975/76 Eugene Onegin Program!
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
Explore the 1979/80 Fidelio Program!
Explore the 1970/71 Carmen Program!
Explore the program for our Summer 1981 Wagner festival, featuring the Ring and Tristan and Isolde.
Explore the 1974/75 Barber of Seville Program!
Explore the 1978/79 Carmen Program!
The first Ring performed complete within a week in the U.S. in a generation.
Klara Barlow was Seattle’s first necrophilic nymphomaniac princess.
Fiorenza Cossotto stole the show with “O don fatale.”
Explore the 1978/79 Norma Program!
Hear Archie Drake in this thrilling American premiere.
The world’s first ‘rock opera’ was Bette Midler’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
Nicola Ghiuselev sang the title role in Russian, and Giorgio Tozzi sang it in English!
Joan Sutherland wowed the opera-goers of Seattle in 1970 by singing all three ladies in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Glynn Ross comissioned a new Pasatieri chamber opera for a church in Medina.
Explore the 1976/77 Of Mice and Men Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Il Trovatore Program!
Listen to excerpts from Seattle Opera’s English-language RINGS!
Explore the 1978 Ring Program!
Hear the mezzo who was Seattle’s original Queen of the Gods.
Italian baritone Matteo Manuguerra shines in Seattle Opera’s second staging of Rigoletto.
Our second production of Puccini’s perennially popular tragedy.
Explore the 1972/73 Faust Program!
A lively production of Rossini’s great comedy.
Explore the 1979 Ring Program!
Explore the 1972/73 Die Walküre Program!
Simon Estes was a strong Hagen, and Ute Vinzing joined our Ring for the first time as Brünnhilde.
Explore the 1977/78 Magic Flute Program!
Thomas Pasatieri’s opera based on the Checkov play.
Explore the 1969/70 Turandot Program!
A huge cast assembled for Strauss’s great comedy.
“Ride of the Valkyries” — sung in English!
Hear Seattle’s first malevolent Lord of the Ring.
Explore the 1974/75 Mefistofele Program!
Explore the 1977/78 The King of Lahore Program!
Korean soprano Sung-Sook Lee was Seattle Opera’s second Butterfly.
Explore the 1978/79 Macbeth Program!
Explore the 1976/77 Tosca Program!
The return of this great American work, first performed in Seattle in 1970.
Explore the 1971/72 A Masked Ball Program!
World Premiere of a new Pasatieri opera!
Archie Drake’s first outing as Benoit/Alcindoro–a role he owned for decades at Seattle Opera.
Hear Archie Drake sing Gunther–in English!
Explore the 1971/72 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Remarks from the award ceremony
Program for 1972/73 Manon Lescaut–the production that launched our Scenic Studios and Costume Shop.
Explore the 1976/77 Otello Program!
as told by Julian Patrick
Explore the 1972/73 La Perichole Program!
Explore the 1979/80 Faust Program!
Seattle Opera’s first production of Verdi’s comic Shakespearean masterpiece.
Edward Sooter made a great addition to our Ring cast at its fifth consecutive summer.
Explore the 1971/72 La Boheme Program!
Mary Costa and Leo Goeke sang Massenet’s unfortunate lovers.
Joan Sutherland in a Massenet rarity—also starring the young James Morris!
Seattle Opera’s first Norma featured powerful singing from Cristina Deutekom.
How Glynn Ross organized the two casts necessary for presenting opera in Seattle.
Seattle Opera’s first production of Puccini’s beloved tragedy.
Seattle Opera’s first-ever performance of Mozart’s intriguing comedy.
Erich Parce makes his Seattle Opera debut.
Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 1975/76 The Seagull Program!
as told by composer Carlisle Floyd
A precursor of Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program.
Seattle Opera’s first production of Mozart’s great fairy-tale.
Hear the SIEGFRIED Riddle Scene–in English!
Polish soprano Zdizislawa Donat was a memorable Lucia.
Explore the 1976/77 Werther Program!
Explore the 1969/70 Salome Program!
Starring Norman Treigle as the devil!
350 schoolchildren starred in a Seattle Opera production in 1973!
Beverly Sills sang Lucia in Seattle.
A great star, but a compromised performance!
Excerpt from The Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California
Johanna Meier and Alberto Remedios joined our cast this summer.
Explore the 1979/80 Queen of Spades Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle’s original Ur-Mutter.
Explore the 1974/75 Manon Progarm!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s founding General Director!
Explore the 1977/78 Madama Butterfly Program!
Explore the 1975/76 Thais Program!
Explore the 1979/80 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 1972/73 La Traviata Program!
