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