From the 2009 Ring cycle performances
“Out, damn spot…out, I say!”
Explore the 2000/01 Tosca Program!
Explore the 2002/03 Eugene Onegin Program!
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
Explore the 2009 Young Artists Program Cosi Fan Tutte Program!
The earliest opera yet presented by Seattle Opera.
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
The unseen heroes who bring it all together!
Artist of the Year Winner Stephanie Blythe wows in Aida.
Tenor and baritone fight—not for the soprano’s love, but to escape her!
Both comedy and tragedy are found in Pagliacci, but laughter turns to tears in this Seattle Opera production 2008.
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
Explore the 2006/07 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Explore the 2005 Young Artists Program Marriage of Figaro Program!
The last opera produced in the old Seattle Opera House.
Explore the 2000/01 Billy Budd Program!
Explore the 2009 Young Artists Program A Midsummer Night’s Dream Program!
Explore the 2007/08 Iphigenia in Tauris Program!
Peter Kazaras’ lively staging featured Mariusz Kwiecien heading up a colorful cast of characters.
John Relyea’s unforgettable “Hoffmann” villains!
The making of the Ring
The Making of the Ring
A powerfully effective chamber version of Eugene Onegin.
The world’s first opera buffa, toured around Washington by the Young Artists.
Explore the 2004/05 Manon Lescaut Program!
Explore the 1999/2000 Lakme Program!
“The jaws of hell gape wide and swallow all of creation” in some of Verdi’s most powerful music.
Explore the 2009/10 La Traviata Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 2002/03 Norma Program!
Explore the 2004/05 Florencia in the Amazon Program!
Explore the 2004/05 Rigoletto Program!
Ewa Podles receives the artist of the year award in 2003’s production of Norma.
One of opera’s best-loved love duets.
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Explore the 2007/08 Pagliacci Program!
A lively Young Artists production of Mozart’s comedy.
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
Explore the 2000 Young Artists Program Don Giovanni Program!
Revival of 1995 production updating the action to Mussolini’s Italy.
Peter Kazaras’s brilliant production is born.
A touring production of Bernstein’s American masterpiece.
Starring future Artist-of-the-Year winners Lawrence Brownlee and Mary Elizabeth Williams!
Explore the 2006 Young Artists Program The Tragedy of Carmen Program!
The first Jake Heggie opera performed at Seattle Opera.
Patricia Racette in her Seattle debut.
Bizet’s exotic bonbon returns, starring William Burden.
Love at first candle lighting.
Veteran Carol Vaness paired with emerging newcomer Jay Hunter Morris in this rarely presented Puccini tragedy.
“I think this is getting too silly!”
Explore the 1999/2000 Boris Godunov Program!
Three-minute complilation of footage from the final dress rehearsal of 2009’s DAS RHEINGOLD.
Explore the 1999/2000 Der Freischutz Program!
History of our costume shop!
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
Marius Kwiecien sings the Champagne Aria!
Puccini’s iconic tragedy, a staple of operatic performance, is performed for eager audiences.
Explore the 2003/04 Mourning Becomes Electra Program!
A stylish, sexy production of what’s been called the ‘perfect’ opera.
Chris Alexander’s first award-winning production.
Explore the 2009/10 Falstaff Program!
Wagner’s mighty epic performed for–and by!–kids all over Washington State.
The twin casts of Speight Jenkins’ Seattle Opera.
The ultimate tale of obsession unfolds in Bizet’s Carmen.
Explore the 2008/09 The Marriage of Figaro Program!
A beautifully haunting production of Britten’s ghost story.
A spectacular cast and walls that dripped blood made for a thrilling night of Verdi and Shakespeare.
An old fool makes the mistake of a lifetime when he marries a pretty young thing.
The first of three Verdi operas featured in our 2009/10 season.
Hear Christopher Maltman sing his award-winning Billy Budd!
The earliest composed opera performed by Seattle Opera.
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
Explore the 1999/2000 Magic Flute Program
Hear audience laughter drowning out Mozart’s music!
Grief, revenge, and murder… Explore Strauss’s Elektra!
Conducted by Gerard Schwarz, this opera stretched Mercer Arts Arena to the acoustic limits.
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Tatyana’s Letter Program!
Explore the 2001/02 Salome Program!
Explore the 2004/05 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Stephanie Blythe curses Verdi’s priests.
Explore the 2008/09 The Pear Fishers Program!
Explore the 2001/02 Un ballo in maschera Program!
Listen to some of the silliest music in all opera!
Three of our favorite singers starred in this Verdi masterpiece.
Speight remembers consecrating McCaw Hall with Wagner’s most Wagnerian opera.
Young love triumphs over aged tyranny in this most popular of opera comedies.
Greer Grimsley stars as the perfect villain!
The second Seattle Opera staging of Verdi’s final opera was directed by Shakespearean veteran Chris Alexander.
Hear the three great voices of the rescheduled Tosca after the earthquake.
Explore the 2005/06 Cosi fan tutte Program!
Our Young Artists rise to the challenge of Britten’s Shakespeare!
Nuccia Focile’s debut with Seattle Opera signing the title role, Tatyana, in Eugene Onegin
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Trouble in Tahiti & Rita Program!
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
Explore the 2001/02 Rusalka Program!
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Explore the 2008/09 Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung Program!
This colorful and imaginative production will return in May 2014.
Hear Oreste’s mad scene from Gluck masterpiece, in a co-production created with the Met.
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
The first Young Artists Program opera directed by Peter Kazaras!
Britten’s Shakespeare, set in a magical boarding school!
Explore the 2003 Young Artists Program La Boheme Program!
Explore the 2005/06 Die Fledermaus Program!
Explore the 2001 Young Artists Program La Cenerentola Program!
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Who says Wagner singers are no fun?
Listen to some of Verdi’s bubbliest music.
Explore the 2008/09 Elektra Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
Explore the 2001/02 Madama Butterfly Program!
Mayor Greg Nickels honored Speight’s 25th with a proclamation.
Listen to Asher Fisch conduct overwhelming music from the first show in McCaw Hall!
Jonathan Miller’s startlingly contemporary production.
Explore the 2002/03 Don Pasquale Program!
The people of Russia acclaim their new Tsar–but strange harmonies in the clanging bells warn us that all is not well.
The first opera of the new century showcased the chorus in their leading role as the people of Russia.
Explore the 2006/07 L’Italiana in Algeri Program!
Grade-schoolers performing side-by-side with Seattle Opera Young Artists!
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
Listen to a great Russian bass who shared his country’s greatest opera with Seattle.
One performance, one role, two tenors!
Listen to a clip from Perry Lorenzo’s famous RING lectures!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
Three of Seattle’s favorite superstar singers braved the Nisqually earthquake during the run of this Puccini thriller.
Explore the 2000/01 Falstaff Program!
This fascinating double-bill won its director Artist of the Year.
Hear the lively conclusion to Verdi’s great comedy.
Listen to highlights from Mozart’s perfect opera.
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
The Young Artists played Puccini’s beloved tragedy against Impressionist imagery.
A lovesick girl sings rhapsodies about a fantasy of the man she adores.
Hear Ewa Podles’s award-winning Adalgisa!
Based on the Eugene O’Neill play, and revised by the composer for Seattle Opera’s production.
Explore the 2003/04 Carmen Program!
Explore the 2009/10 Il Trovatore Program!
Explore the 2007 Young Artists Program Falstaff Program!
Explore the 2007/08 Tosca Program!
Explore the 2006/07 La Boheme Program!
Explore the 2005/06 The End of the Affair Program!
YAP’s first ‘black-box’ opera tour!
Explore the 2004 Young Artists Program Cosi fan tutte Program!
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
A ‘Just Add Water’ Così that toured the state in the fall of 2009.
Hear a Verdi duet of heartbreaking beauty.
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
Explore the 2003/04 Ariadne auf Naxos Program!
The Young Artists take on Rossini’s Cinderella!
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Explore the 2008/09 Aida Program!
From 2009 Ring cycle performances.
An imaginative production of a wonderfully magical opera.
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
When a vocal cover is not enough…
Hear the winners of our International Wagner Competitions!
Explore the 1999/2000 Barber of Seville Program!
Explore the 2005/06 Macbeth Program!
Listen to one of Verdi’s most popular tunes!
Explore the 2006/07 Julius Caesar in Egypt Program!
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Part one of our series previewing 2009 RING Cycle focused on the artists involved and their rehearsal process.
Explore the 2003/04 Girl of the West Program!
Puccini’s great comedy in a brilliant YAP production!
From the 2009 Ring
Explore the 2006 Young Artists Program The Turn of the Screw Program!
Explore the 2002/03 Fidelio Program!
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
Jane Eaglen stars in Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio 2002.
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Enchanted Child, Gianni Schicchi Program!
