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