Explore the 1984/85 Tannhäuser Program!
Explore the 1987/88 Orpheus and Eurydice Program!
The most familiar music from Wagner’s RING!
Explore the 1989/90 Dialogues of the Carmelites Program!
Speight remembers how Nuremberg came to Seattle.
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
The Seattle debut of Carol Vaness, a favorite soprano of the Seattle audience.
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Superstar tenor required! Ben Heppner was the first Andrea Chénier at Seattle Opera since Franco Corelli in 1968.
Watch clips from Seattle Opera’s monumental production from the Goodwill Games!
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
Explore the 2003/04 Girl of the West Program!
Britten’s all-male nautical tragedy made its Seattle Opera debut in a spectacular production from Francesca Zambello, Alison Chitty, and Alan Burrett.
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
Explore the 1992/93 Pelléas et Mélisande Program!
Explore the 1985/86 Die Walküre Program!
Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
Explore the 1997/98 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Explore the 1993/94 Norma Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Billy Budd Program!
Speight remembers when the “Shiite Wagnerites” demanded his head.
Explore the 2013 Ring Program!
Carol Vaness made her role debut as The Marschallin and Maestro Asher Fisch won Artist-of-the-Year honors for conducting this revival of Bruno Schwengl’s lavish production.
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
Explore the 2008/09 Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung Program!
Watch clips from our imaginative second production of Wagner’s Ring.
Hear the luscious voice of a great mezzo singing the role she created.
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
A stunning production of Puccini’s grandest opera with an all-star cast.
Explore the 2007/08 Iphigenia in Tauris Program!
Explore the 1990/91 Anna Bolena Program!
Listen to Asher Fisch conduct overwhelming music from the first show in McCaw Hall!
Featuring the Seattle Opera debuts of Stephen Wadsworth and Peter Kazaras!
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Explore the 1995/96 Andrea Chenier Program!
Don Giovanni as Seattle had never seen it before!
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
Explore the 2012/13 Turandot Program!
Explore the 1990/91 Rusalka Program!
Images highlighting 1991’s Anna Bolena
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Hear the winners of our International Wagner Competitions!
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
This fascinating double-bill won its director Artist of the Year.
Hear Oreste’s mad scene from Gluck masterpiece, in a co-production created with the Met.
The moment when the difference between Speight Jenkins and Glynn Ross became apparent!
Speight remembers consecrating McCaw Hall with Wagner’s most Wagnerian opera.
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
For Seattle Opera’s only production of this masterpiece, we projected titles above the stage for the first time.
The final outing of Ring 2 was a great success, artistically—and financially!
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
Dale Chihuly’s designs matched Debussy’s evocative, translucent music perfectly.
Explore the 1990/91Don Giovanni Program!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
Our only production of the Poulenc masterpiece.
Explore the 2011/12 Porgy and Bess Program!
The orchestra mourns the death of a fallen hero.
Explore the 2009/10 Amelia Program!
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
Renée Fleming’s debut as Dvořák’s little mermaid.
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
This innovative new production turned the stage into a library desktop, complete with giant books, ink wells, and feather pens.
The stunning debut of one of our favorite sopranos!
Explore the 1985/86 Manon Program!
Explore the 1986 Ring Program!
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
Seattle Opera’s first home-grown production of the greatest American opera.
Our powerful first production of this Gluck masterwork.
Seattle Opera’s beautiful world premiere from 2010.
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
Hear the gorgeous trio from “Così fan tutte” sung by three of our favorite singers.
None who were there will ever forget Jane Eaglen’s stunning Seattle Opera debut!
Renee Fleming made her Seattle Opera debut in one of her greatest roles.
A sumptuous production of Richard Strauss’s most popular opera.
Hear the German soprano who triumphed at Seattle Opera recently in Fidelio.
Our unforgettable War and Peace celebrated the end of the Cold War.
Explore the 1990/91 War and Peace Program!
A fantastic young American soprano created the role of the heroine’s namesake in Amelia.
Explore the 1984/85 Jenufa Program!
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
Discover Seattle Opera and Metropolitan Opera’s co-production of Iphigénie en Tauride, claimed as a rare treasure, debuted in 2007.
Explore the 1995 Ring Program!
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
The first complete presentation of the imaginative Rochaix/Israel Ring 2.
Explore the 2006/07 Der Rosenkavalier Program!