A touring production of Bernstein’s American masterpiece.
Listen to the 2012/13 YAPs celebrating Verdi in style!
YAP’s first ‘black-box’ opera tour!
Patricia Racette in her Seattle debut.
Our Young Artists saluted Giuseppe Verdi in style for his bicentennial!
A 1982 article about Glynn Ross and Seattle’s Ring.
Meet the invaluable volunteers who help visiting artists live in Seattle.
A precursor of Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program.
Glynn Ross comissioned a new Pasatieri chamber opera for a church in Medina.
A pioneer opera education program, which later became a model for programs nationwide.
A McCaw Hall Open House celebrating everyone’s favorite rags-to-riches heroine!
A McCaw Hall open house full of fun, music, and hair!
Seattle Opera’s flagship education program has been introducing young people to opera for almost 30 years.
A special Halloween treat from fall 2010!
The announcement of Seattle Opera’s third General Director.
Images from the first few years of our Young Artists Program!
Program for 1972/73 Manon Lescaut–the production that launched our Scenic Studios and Costume Shop.
Remarks from the award ceremony
Seattle Opera goes psychedelic!
Seattle Opera’s first season!
More than 8,000 Seattelites enjoyed Madama Butterfly on the night of our first-ever Simulcast!
A ‘Just Add Water’ Così that toured the state in the fall of 2009.
Our only production of Verdi’s ‘other’ comedy.
Tenor and baritone fight—not for the soprano’s love, but to escape her!
Speight lectures on the Ring in the summer of 1982.
A group who have been promoting opera in Seattle since before Seattle Opera was born!
Footage from the fun open house that kicked off our 2013 RING.
The ancient history of our performance space!
350 schoolchildren starred in a Seattle Opera production in 1973!
R. M. Campbell’s obituary recaps the remarkable career of Glynn Ross.
The world’s first opera buffa, toured around Washington by the Young Artists.
Young adults have all the fun at Seattle Opera!
From the book, “Classical Music in America”
The world’s first ‘rock opera’ was Bette Midler’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
25 Years of Backstage Passes collected by soprano Donna Baldwin, a member of our chorus.
Mamma knows best…not!
A favorite young composer of ours in the 1970s!
Seattle Opera’s Community and Artist Relations Manager has been with the company since the late ’70s.
Mayor Greg Nickels honored Speight’s 25th with a proclamation.
A McCaw Hall open house full of Mozart-inspired musical madness.
An imaginative production of a wonderfully magical opera.
The career of an artist who gave much to Seattle Opera.
Grade-schoolers performing side-by-side with Seattle Opera Young Artists!
Opera education and outreach, ’70s-style!
Wagner’s mighty epic performed for–and by!–kids all over Washington State.
A great teacher who turned many in our community on to the beauty and power of opera.
Phil Kelsey has been at the heart of Seattle Opera’s music department since 1983.
