Johanna Meier and Alberto Remedios joined our cast this summer.
Excerpt from The Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California
Watch Video: Music with Maestro Asher Fisch
Hear Archie Drake sing Gunther–in English!
Speight remembers how supertitles came to Seattle Opera.
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
Hear the mezzo who was Seattle’s original Queen of the Gods.
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
R. M. Campbell’s obituary recaps the remarkable career of Glynn Ross.
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
A 1982 article about Glynn Ross and Seattle’s Ring.
Explore the 1980/81 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Speight’s story of saving his first-ever RING from disaster.
Explore the 1985/86 Die Walküre Program!
Explore the program for our Summer 1981 Wagner festival, featuring the Ring and Tristan and Isolde.
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Listen to excerpts from Seattle Opera’s English-language RINGS!
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.”
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
A serenade gone hilariously wrong!
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
A complete list of Wagner performances in Seattle.
Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
Explore the 1980 Ring Program!
Explore the 1978 Ring Program!
Explore the 1982 Ring Program!
Hear the winners of our International Wagner Competitions!
Hear Asher Fisch conduct the TRISTAN Prelude!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s resident tenor in the ’70s!
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
Watch Director’s Talk Video with Peter Kazaras
Perhaps the wildest animal ever to appear on our stage…
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
From 2009 Ring cycle performances.
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
Duesing implores the Evening Star to bear his love to the lady of his heart.
It’s love at first sight (and hearing!) when Seattle Opera meets Richard Wagner.
Our first production of Wagner’s great song of love and death.
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
Explore the 1991 Ring Program!
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
Explore the 1995 Ring Program!
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
Speight finds a new Siegfried–after the final dress rehearsal!
The moment when the difference between Speight Jenkins and Glynn Ross became apparent!
How the first go-around of “Ring 2” had some strengths and some weaknesses.
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
Listen to Asher Fisch conduct overwhelming music from the first show in McCaw Hall!
Explore the 1974/75 Ring Program!
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Listen to a clip from Perry Lorenzo’s famous RING lectures!
“Ride of the Valkyries” — sung in English!
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
The orchestra mourns the death of a fallen hero.
Explore the 1984 Ring Program!
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Explore the 1973/74 Siegfried Program!
Pete Olds’ quick-thinking saves the day.
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Edward Sooter made a great addition to our Ring cast at its fifth consecutive summer.
From the 2009 Ring cycle performances
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
Hear the voice of Noel Tyl, one of our first Wotans.
The final outing of Ring 2 was a great success, artistically—and financially!
By 1980, Seattle’s Ring was a well-known west coast cultural phenomenon.
Explore the 2013 Ring Program!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
The making of the Ring
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s founding General Director!
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
Explore the 1984/85 Tannhäuser Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle’s original Ur-Mutter.
Explore the 1986 Ring Program!
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
One of our favorite baritones sings Alberich’s curse.
The final cycle produced by Glynn Ross.
Simon Estes was a strong Hagen, and Ute Vinzing joined our Ring for the first time as Brünnhilde.
From the book, “Classical Music in America”
Explore the 1983 Ring Program!
A game of musical chairs ensued when several Ring singers switched parts.
The first complete presentation of the imaginative Rochaix/Israel Ring 2.
Speight remembers how Nuremberg came to Seattle.
A cast substitution with unexpected results.
The first Wagner production at Seattle Opera!
The most familiar music from Wagner’s RING!
Watch a Video Excerpt
Explore the 1977 Ring Program.
Speight remembers consecrating McCaw Hall with Wagner’s most Wagnerian opera.
For Seattle Opera’s only production of this masterpiece, we projected titles above the stage for the first time.
Explore the 1976 Ring Program!
Speight remembers his first great success with the RING.
Explore the 1972/73 Die Walküre Program!
The Making of the Ring
Hear the SIEGFRIED Riddle Scene–in English!
Wagner’s mighty epic performed for–and by!–kids all over Washington State.
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
Speight learns to listen to young people at final dress rehearsals.
A second Ring opera is added to Seattle’s repertory.
RING 2 achieved widespread acceptance this summer, and the number of performances increased to three.
A new Siegfried added to the excitement of Seattle Opera’s most ambitious summer program yet.
Watch clips from our imaginative second production of Wagner’s Ring.
Part one of our series previewing 2009 RING Cycle focused on the artists involved and their rehearsal process.
Hear the bass who was with us from before the beginning.
The once-controversial “Ring 2” finally earns complete acceptance.
The first time the world ended at Seattle Opera!
Hear the bass-baritone who often sang Wotan in Seattle in the ’80s.
Three-minute complilation of footage from the final dress rehearsal of 2009’s DAS RHEINGOLD.
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Explore the 2010/11 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Speight remembers when the “Shiite Wagnerites” demanded his head.
From the 2009 Ring
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Gotterdammerung Program!
Explore the 1988/89 Flying Dutchman Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s first Music and Education Director!
A new Brünnhilde headlined our second complete cycle.
The first Ring performed complete within a week in the U.S. in a generation.
Hear Seattle’s first malevolent Lord of the Ring.
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
Explore the 1979 Ring Program!
The last summer for Ring 1!
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
Glynn Ross begins introducing his favorite opera tetralogy to Seattle.
