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