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