Seattle Opera’s professional chorus has played a major role in the company’s success ever since the “Te Deum” of our first Tosca in 1964. A series of talented chorusmasters—Leonard Moore, Henry Holt, Hans Wolf, George Fiore, Beth Kirchhoff, and John Keene—has trained the chorus to sing in Italian, German, French, English, Russian, Czech, Spanish, and Sanskrit. In addition to playing every conceivable kind of supporting character (often many different characters in the same performance, sometimes with costume changes timed down to the second), our versatile chorus has played a starring row in such operas as Boris Godunov, Turandot, Satyagraha, Orphée et Eurydice, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and War and Peace. The chorus members belong to the American Guild of Musical Artists.