Giovanni Martinelli’s one Seattle Opera appearance!
William Burden as Orphée implores the Furies to return his Eurydice to him.
The Seattle Opera debut of Julian Patrick!
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
A wholly Shakespearean production of Verdi’s great comedy.
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Renee Fleming made her Seattle Opera debut in one of her greatest roles.
Watch clips from Seattle Opera’s monumental production from the Goodwill Games!
Stephanie Blythe curses Verdi’s priests.
Explore the 2010/11 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
Hear the German soprano who triumphed at Seattle Opera recently in Fidelio.
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Explore the 1964/65 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Listen to highlights from Mozart’s perfect opera.
Hear the luscious voice of a great mezzo singing the role she created.
“The jaws of hell gape wide and swallow all of creation” in some of Verdi’s most powerful music.
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Young love triumphs over aged tyranny in this most popular of opera comedies.
A serenade gone hilariously wrong!
A beautiful (and beautifully sung) production of one of the most Romantic French operas.
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Mirth and madness from the master of operatic mayhem!
Explore the 1967/68 Romeo and Juliet Program!
Hear an astonishing “Si, pel ciel” from a great American tenor!
Explore the 1972/73 La Traviata Program!
Listen to some of Verdi’s bubbliest music.
A lovesick girl sings rhapsodies about a fantasy of the man she adores.
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
The stunning debut of one of our favorite sopranos!
A double-cast production: soprano Sarah Coburn performed Rosina one and mezzo Kate Lindsey in the other!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
Verdi’s most ambitious opera came thrillingly to life in this spectacular production.
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
James McCracken brought down the house!
Who says Wagner singers are no fun?
Explore the 1970/71 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Renée Fleming’s debut as Dvořák’s little mermaid.
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
Seven magic bullets consecrated to the devil wreak havoc in this, the original German Romantic opera.
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
One performance, one role, two tenors!
Explore the 2009/10 Amelia Program!
Hear the performance that won Ben Heppner’s the Artist-of-the-Year Award!
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
Explore the 1990/91 Anna Bolena Program!
Patricia Racette in her Seattle debut.
The ultimate tale of obsession unfolds in Bizet’s Carmen.
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
Seattle Opera’s beautiful world premiere from 2010.
Explore the 1982/83 Peter Grimes Program!
Peter Kazaras directs Rossini’s popular comedy!
Chris Alexander’s first award-winning production.
Explore the 1968/69 Tosca Program!
A stylish, sexy production of what’s been called the ‘perfect’ opera.
Dorothy Kirsten’s Seattle appearance.
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
One of our favorite baritones sings Alberich’s curse.
A lively production of Rossini’s great comedy.
Our unforgettable War and Peace celebrated the end of the Cold War.
Explore the 1980/81 Aida Program!
Starring Dale Duesing, Peter Kazaras, Judith Haddon, and Geri Decker.
Explore the 1966/67 Lakme Program!
Explore the 1968/69 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
Two of opera’s darkest characters blend their voices.
The world’s first ‘rock opera’ was Bette Midler’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
Seattle Opera’s first production of the show featuring opera’s most gorgeous tenor-baritone duet!
Explore the 1967/68 Don Giovanni Program!
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
The career of an artist who gave much to Seattle Opera.
Explore the 1965/66 La Boheme Program!
Starring Greer Grimsley as the Devil!
“I think this is getting too silly!”
John Relyea’s unforgettable “Hoffmann” villains!
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 1984/85 Ballad of Baby Doe Program!
Régine Crespin’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 1969/70 Turandot Program!
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Seattle Opera’s only production of Tchaikovsky’s Pushkin-inspired tragedy.
The climax of Don Magnifico’s ridiculous “dream” aria.
Starring future Artist-of-the-Year winners Lawrence Brownlee and Mary Elizabeth Williams!
Erich Parce makes his Seattle Opera debut.
The second Seattle Opera staging of Verdi’s final opera was directed by Shakespearean veteran Chris Alexander.
Beverly Sills sang Lucia in Seattle.
Explore the 1990/91 Rusalka Program!
Local favorites Vinson Cole, Sally Wolf, and Dale Duesing took on Puccini’s bohemians.
as told by Hans Lehmann
Explore the 1966/67 Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Program!
Listen to Sally Wolf’s award-winning LUCIA Mad Scene!
“Death with honor before life with dishonor!” A strong production of Puccini’s great tragedy.
A lovesick dope wins the help of his special lady with a magic love potion that’s really cheap red wine.
as told by Julian Patrick
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
Starring Seattle Opera’s first African-American singer!
Explore the 1968/69 Andrea Chenier Program!
Aleksandra Kurzak sings Lucia’s Mad Scene!
Nilsson as the Ice Princess.
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
Speight remembers his first great success with the RING.
Explore the 1965/66 Samson and Delilah Program!
Joan Sutherland returned to Seattle as Donna Anna.
Superstar tenor required! Ben Heppner was the first Andrea Chénier at Seattle Opera since Franco Corelli in 1968.
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
Peter Kazaras’ lively staging featured Mariusz Kwiecien heading up a colorful cast of characters.
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
Beverly Sills’ only Mimì!
A spectacular cast and walls that dripped blood made for a thrilling night of Verdi and Shakespeare.
Explore the 1965/66 Il trovatore Program!
Two spectacular voices, early in their careers, brought an unknown masterpiece to Seattle.
New production featured a repurposed set from 2008’s “I PURITANI”.
Veteran Carol Vaness paired with emerging newcomer Jay Hunter Morris in this rarely presented Puccini tragedy.
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
Fiorenza Cossotto stole the show with “O don fatale.”
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
Our liveliest production yet of this great comedy!
Explore the 1966/67 The Barber of Seville Program!
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
A great star, but a compromised performance!
Explore the 1981/82 Die Fledermaus Program!
Explore the 1978/79 Macbeth Program!
Explore the 1978/79 Don Giovanni Program!
Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
Hear the gorgeous trio from “Così fan tutte” sung by three of our favorite singers.
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Explore the 1977/78 The King of Lahore Program!
Joan Sutherland’s Seattle debut!
Marius Kwiecien sings the Champagne Aria!
When Stravinsky and Basil Rathbone appeared at Seattle Opera!
Explore the 1987/88 Orpheus and Eurydice Program!
This colorful and imaginative production will return in May 2014.
None who were there will ever forget Jane Eaglen’s stunning Seattle Opera debut!
Listen to Corelli’s stunning “Ah, lève-toi soleil!”
Hear opera’s ultimate tenor-baritone duet.
Explore the 1990/91 War and Peace Program!
Listen to some of the silliest music in all opera!
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Roberta Peters was Seattle Opera’s first Lucia.
Explore the 1964/65 Boris Godunov Program!
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Our powerful first production of this Gluck masterwork.
Three of Seattle’s favorite superstar singers braved the Nisqually earthquake during the run of this Puccini thriller.
Explore the 1995/96 Andrea Chenier Program!
Explore the 1971/72 A Masked Ball Program!
Jon Vickers as Britten’s tragic fisherman misfit.
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
Sally Wolf won Artist of the Year this season for her extraordinary Lucia.
Explore the 1967/68 Otello Program!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Patricia Racette starred in this heart-breakingly beautiful production.
Images highlighting 1991’s Anna Bolena
Explore the 1964/65 Rigoletto Program!
Enter a frozen world ruled by a harsh ice princess–at your own risk!
Hear Ewa Podles’s award-winning Adalgisa!
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
A unique revival in which the alternating Rosinas were performed by different voice types.
Hear the three great voices of the rescheduled Tosca after the earthquake.
Sherrill Milnes’s Seattle Opera debut!
Explore the 1993/94 Norma Program!
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Check out the production which caused the first-ever Seattle Times opera-related phone-in poll!
Explore the 1971/72 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Franco Corelli at Seattle Opera.
Joan Sutherland in a Massenet rarity—also starring the young James Morris!
Joan Sutherland wowed the opera-goers of Seattle in 1970 by singing all three ladies in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Listen to Sutherland and Tourangeau sing the famous “Lakmé” Flower Duet!
Jane Eaglen stars in Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio 2002.
Beloved mezzo Frederica von Stade’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
A starry production of Verdi’s great melodrama.
Seattle Opera’s first Traviata wasn’t ours at all—it came from the Met.
Explore the 1973/74 Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci Program!
Bizet’s sexy gypsy returns to the main stage!
Seattle’s first completely comic opera!
