Check out the production which caused the first-ever Seattle Times opera-related phone-in poll!
The second Seattle Opera staging of Verdi’s final opera was directed by Shakespearean veteran Chris Alexander.
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
“Death with honor before life with dishonor!” A strong production of Puccini’s great tragedy.
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
Explore the 1969/70 Turandot Program!
Explore the 1965/66 La Boheme Program!
The career of an artist who gave much to Seattle Opera.
Seattle Opera’s first production of the show featuring opera’s most gorgeous tenor-baritone duet!
Hear the three great voices of the rescheduled Tosca after the earthquake.
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
Sherrill Milnes’s Seattle Opera debut!
Our unforgettable War and Peace celebrated the end of the Cold War.
Enter a frozen world ruled by a harsh ice princess–at your own risk!
Who says Wagner singers are no fun?
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
Explore the 1967/68 Don Giovanni Program!
Seven magic bullets consecrated to the devil wreak havoc in this, the original German Romantic opera.
Our liveliest production yet of this great comedy!
Hear the gorgeous trio from “Così fan tutte” sung by three of our favorite singers.
Explore the 1966/67 The Barber of Seville Program!
Listen to highlights from Mozart’s perfect opera.
Listen to some of Verdi’s bubbliest music.
Explore the 1978/79 Macbeth Program!
Roberta Peters was Seattle Opera’s first Lucia.
Local favorites Vinson Cole, Sally Wolf, and Dale Duesing took on Puccini’s bohemians.
Explore the 1971/72 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Explore the 1995/96 Andrea Chenier Program!
Peter Kazaras’ lively staging featured Mariusz Kwiecien heading up a colorful cast of characters.
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
Bizet’s sexy gypsy returns to the main stage!
William Burden as Orphée implores the Furies to return his Eurydice to him.
Hear the performance that won Ben Heppner’s the Artist-of-the-Year Award!
Beloved mezzo Frederica von Stade’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
A wholly Shakespearean production of Verdi’s great comedy.
Joan Sutherland in a Massenet rarity—also starring the young James Morris!
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
Speight remembers his first great success with the RING.
A lovesick girl sings rhapsodies about a fantasy of the man she adores.
Seattle’s first completely comic opera!
Explore the 1970/71 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Superstar tenor required! Ben Heppner was the first Andrea Chénier at Seattle Opera since Franco Corelli in 1968.
This innovative new production turned the stage into a library desktop, complete with giant books, ink wells, and feather pens.
A double-cast production: soprano Sarah Coburn performed Rosina one and mezzo Kate Lindsey in the other!
Explore the 1982/83 Peter Grimes Program!
A starry production of Verdi’s great melodrama.
Régine Crespin’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Images highlighting 1991’s Anna Bolena
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
Watch clips from Seattle Opera’s monumental production from the Goodwill Games!
A beautiful (and beautifully sung) production of one of the most Romantic French operas.
This colorful and imaginative production will return in May 2014.
Veteran Carol Vaness paired with emerging newcomer Jay Hunter Morris in this rarely presented Puccini tragedy.
Hear the German soprano who triumphed at Seattle Opera recently in Fidelio.
Seattle Opera’s only production of Tchaikovsky’s Pushkin-inspired tragedy.
Explore the 1987/88 Orpheus and Eurydice Program!
Marius Kwiecien sings the Champagne Aria!
Beverly Sills’ only Mimì!
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
Explore the 1966/67 Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Program!
Young love triumphs over aged tyranny in this most popular of opera comedies.
Explore the 1978/79 Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 1966/67 Lakme Program!
James McCracken brought down the house!
Explore the 1964/65 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 1990/91 Rusalka Program!
Jon Vickers as Britten’s tragic fisherman misfit.
Stephanie Blythe curses Verdi’s priests.
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
Explore the 1968/69 Andrea Chenier Program!
Peter Kazaras directs Rossini’s popular comedy!
Explore the 1980/81 Aida Program!
Explore the 1977/78 The King of Lahore Program!
Hear opera’s ultimate tenor-baritone duet.
Joan Sutherland’s Seattle debut!
“I think this is getting too silly!”
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
When Stravinsky and Basil Rathbone appeared at Seattle Opera!
Seattle Opera’s beautiful world premiere from 2010.
Three of Seattle’s favorite superstar singers braved the Nisqually earthquake during the run of this Puccini thriller.
Explore the 2010/11 Tristan and Isolde Program!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
The climax of Don Magnifico’s ridiculous “dream” aria.
Starring future Artist-of-the-Year winners Lawrence Brownlee and Mary Elizabeth Williams!
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
John Relyea’s unforgettable “Hoffmann” villains!
Explore the 1984/85 Ballad of Baby Doe Program!
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
This romantic French opera features the popular “Flower Duet” and the “Bell Song,” beloved of coloraturas of yesteryear.
Listen to Sally Wolf’s award-winning LUCIA Mad Scene!
Hear Ewa Podles’s award-winning Adalgisa!
Jane Eaglen stars in Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio 2002.
Joan Sutherland wowed the opera-goers of Seattle in 1970 by singing all three ladies in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
Mirth and madness from the master of operatic mayhem!
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Explore the 1990/91 Anna Bolena Program!
A spectacular cast and walls that dripped blood made for a thrilling night of Verdi and Shakespeare.
as told by Julian Patrick
Beverly Sills sang Lucia in Seattle.
Starring Seattle Opera’s first African-American singer!
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
A lively production of Rossini’s great comedy.
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Verdi’s most ambitious opera came thrillingly to life in this spectacular production.
as told by Hans Lehmann
Explore the 1967/68 Otello Program!
Explore the 1968/69 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Patricia Racette in her Seattle debut.
Explore the 1964/65 Rigoletto Program!
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
The world’s first ‘rock opera’ was Bette Midler’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Nilsson as the Ice Princess.
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
The ultimate tale of obsession unfolds in Bizet’s Carmen.
A stylish, sexy production of what’s been called the ‘perfect’ opera.
Hear the luscious voice of a great mezzo singing the role she created.
Listen to Sutherland and Tourangeau sing the famous “Lakmé” Flower Duet!
Explore the 2009/10 Amelia Program!
Erich Parce makes his Seattle Opera debut.
Renée Fleming’s debut as Dvořák’s little mermaid.
The Seattle Opera debut of Julian Patrick!
New production featured a repurposed set from 2008’s “I PURITANI”.
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Explore the 1972/73 La Traviata Program!
Explore the 1965/66 Il trovatore Program!
Hear an astonishing “Si, pel ciel” from a great American tenor!
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Starring Greer Grimsley as the Devil!
A penguin-crocodile, floating coloratura queen, and befeathered Nathan Gunn delighted audiences in this final production of the millenium.
Joan Sutherland returned to Seattle as Donna Anna.
Fiorenza Cossotto stole the show with “O don fatale.”
Explore the 1993/94 Norma Program!
A unique revival in which the alternating Rosinas were performed by different voice types.
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
“The jaws of hell gape wide and swallow all of creation” in some of Verdi’s most powerful music.
Chris Alexander’s first award-winning production.
Listen to some of the silliest music in all opera!
Explore the 1965/66 Samson and Delilah Program!
Explore the 1964/65 Boris Godunov Program!
Sally Wolf won Artist of the Year this season for her extraordinary Lucia.
Seattle Opera’s first Traviata wasn’t ours at all—it came from the Met.
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
The stunning debut of one of our favorite sopranos!
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
Aleksandra Kurzak sings Lucia’s Mad Scene!
None who were there will ever forget Jane Eaglen’s stunning Seattle Opera debut!
Composed in 1996, this evocative production debuted in Seattle in 1998. It proved so popular it was revived only 7 years later.
Dorothy Kirsten’s Seattle appearance.
A great star, but a compromised performance!
Listen to Corelli’s stunning “Ah, lève-toi soleil!”
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
Explore the 1990/91 War and Peace Program!
Explore the 1981/82 Die Fledermaus Program!
Explore the 1967/68 Romeo and Juliet Program!
A serenade gone hilariously wrong!
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
A lovesick dope wins the help of his special lady with a magic love potion that’s really cheap red wine.
A minimalist new production directed by Peter Kazaras that was inspired in part from the Ambrose Bierce short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
Explore the 1971/72 A Masked Ball Program!
Starring Dale Duesing, Peter Kazaras, Judith Haddon, and Geri Decker.
Our powerful first production of this Gluck masterwork.
Two spectacular voices, early in their careers, brought an unknown masterpiece to Seattle.
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
Two of opera’s darkest characters blend their voices.
Giovanni Martinelli’s one Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 1973/74 Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci Program!
Renee Fleming made her Seattle Opera debut in one of her greatest roles.
Patricia Racette starred in this heart-breakingly beautiful production.
One performance, one role, two tenors!
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Franco Corelli at Seattle Opera.
Explore the 1968/69 Tosca Program!
One of our favorite baritones sings Alberich’s curse.
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
