Cinderella comes to Seattle Opera for the first time.
Explore the 1972/73 Die Walküre Program!
An Aida featuring several RING singers.
Archie Drake’s first outing as Benoit/Alcindoro–a role he owned for decades at Seattle Opera.
Explore the 1974/75 Manon Progarm!
Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!
as told by composer Carlisle Floyd
Polish soprano Zdizislawa Donat was a memorable Lucia.
Explore the 1969/70 Salome Program!
Explore the 1969/70 Die Fledermaus Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Gotterdammerung Program!
Explore the 1972/73 Faust Program!
Our only performance of this charming operetta.
Seattle Opera’s first Norma featured powerful singing from Cristina Deutekom.
Explore the 1969/70 Turandot Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Barber of Seville Program!
Explore the 1972/73 La Traviata Program!
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
Nicola Ghiuselev sang the title role in Russian, and Giorgio Tozzi sang it in English!
Explore the 1970/71Madama Butterfly Program!
Opera education and outreach, ’70s-style!
Hear the voice of Seattle’s original Ur-Mutter.
The first time the world ended at Seattle Opera!
A precursor of Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program.
Hear Seattle’s first malevolent Lord of the Ring.
Explore the 1979 Ring Program!
The world’s first ‘rock opera’ was Bette Midler’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
How Glynn Ross organized the two casts necessary for presenting opera in Seattle.
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s founding General Director!
A fantastic cast brings Bizet’s stunning opera alive.
Simon Estes was a strong Hagen, and Ute Vinzing joined our Ring for the first time as Brünnhilde.
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s first Music and Education Director!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s resident tenor in the ’70s!
Explore the 1978/79 Carmen Program!
Explore the 1975/76 The Seagull Program!
Explore the 1978/79 La Boheme Program!
Explore the 1979/80 Queen of Spades Program!
Explore the 1973/74 Daughter of the Regiment Program!
Explore the 1979/80 Faust Program!
Explore the 1978 Ring Program!
This Sarajevo Opera production starred some of Yugoslavia’s greatest singers.
Explore the 1976/77 Of Mice and Men Program!
Explore the 1976/77 Werther Program!
Explore the 1978/79 Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 1969/70 Of Mice and Men Program!
Klara Barlow was Seattle’s first necrophilic nymphomaniac princess.
Explore the 1970/71 Don Carlo Program!
A great star, but a compromised performance!
Hear Archie Drake in this thrilling American premiere.
Featuring the meltingly honeyed voice of Leo Goeke in the title role.
Our second production of Puccini’s perennially popular tragedy.
Explore the 1973/74 Cosi Fan Tutte Program!
Listen to excerpts from Seattle Opera’s English-language RINGS!
Seattle Opera’s first production of Mozart’s great fairy-tale.
A cast substitution with unexpected results.
Korean soprano Sung-Sook Lee was Seattle Opera’s second Butterfly.
Hear Archie Drake sing Gunther–in English!
Explore the 1973/74 Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci Program!
Explore the 1977/78 The King of Lahore Program!
Glynn Ross comissioned a new Pasatieri chamber opera for a church in Medina.
Explore the 1969/70 Force of Destiny Program!
Explore the 1971/72 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 1979/80 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
A huge cast assembled for Strauss’s great comedy.
with Glenn Ross in 1970
Explore the 1977/78 Falstaff Program!
“Ride of the Valkyries” — sung in English!
Explore the 1975/76 Thais Program!
as told by Julian Patrick
Explore the 1970/71 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Beverly Sills sang Lucia in Seattle.
Mary Costa was an attractive Desdemona.
Explore the 1977/78 Magic Flute Program!
Explore the 1975/76 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Our first production directed, designed, and built entirely in-house!
Explore the 1979/80 Fidelio Program!
Edward Sooter made a great addition to our Ring cast at its fifth consecutive summer.
Explore the 1975/76 Eugene Onegin Program!
Remarks from the award ceremony
Italian baritone Matteo Manuguerra shines in Seattle Opera’s second staging of Rigoletto.
Hear the SIEGFRIED Riddle Scene–in English!
350 schoolchildren starred in a Seattle Opera production in 1973!
Seattle Opera’s first original commissioned work.
Explore the 1973/74 Siegfried Program!
A pioneer opera education program, which later became a model for programs nationwide.
Hear the mezzo who was Seattle’s original Queen of the Gods.
Explore the 1976/77 Cinderella Program!
Explore the 1977/78 Boris Godunov Program!
Thomas Pasatieri’s opera based on the Checkov play.
Explore the 1971/72 A Masked Ball Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Ring Program!
Hear the bass who was with us from before the beginning.
Explore the 1975/76 Aida Program!
A multi-national cast brought Verdi’s tuneful melodrama to Seattle.
Seattle Opera’s first production of Verdi’s comic Shakespearean masterpiece.
A 1978 production of Bizet’s thrilling opera.
Explore the 1971/72 La Boheme Program!
The return of this great American work, first performed in Seattle in 1970.
Explore the 1974/75 Il Trovatore Program!
Explore the 1976/77 Otello Program!
A lively production of Rossini’s great comedy.
Mary Costa and Leo Goeke sang Massenet’s unfortunate lovers.
Seattle Opera’s first-ever performance of Mozart’s intriguing comedy.
Explore the 1971/72 Black Widow Program!
Explore the program for our Summer 1981 Wagner festival, featuring the Ring and Tristan and Isolde.
Hear the voice of Noel Tyl, one of our first Wotans.
Starring Norman Treigle as the devil!
Joan Sutherland wowed the opera-goers of Seattle in 1970 by singing all three ladies in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Fiorenza Cossotto stole the show with “O don fatale.”
Erich Parce makes his Seattle Opera debut.
Explore the 1978/79 Macbeth Program!
Explore the 1978/79 Norma Program!
A favorite young composer of ours in the 1970s!
Explore the 1977 Ring Program.
Explore the 1979/80 La Traviata Program!
Explore the 1977/78 Madama Butterfly Program!
Johanna Meier and Alberto Remedios joined our cast this summer.
Excerpt from The Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California
Explore the 1973/74 Rigoletto Program!
Explore the 1974/75 Mefistofele Program!
The first Ring performed complete within a week in the U.S. in a generation.
A new Brünnhilde headlined our second complete cycle.
Explore the 1972/73 La Perichole Program!
Program for 1972/73 Manon Lescaut–the production that launched our Scenic Studios and Costume Shop.
World Premiere of a new Pasatieri opera!
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
Glynn Ross begins introducing his favorite opera tetralogy to Seattle.
Explore the 1976/77 Tosca Program!
A sexy devil bewitched Seattle Opera in 1974.
Explore the 1976 Ring Program!
Explore the 1970/71 Carmen Program!
Explore the 1970/71 Marriage of Figaro Program!
Seattle Opera’s first production of Puccini’s beloved tragedy.
Joan Sutherland in a Massenet rarity—also starring the young James Morris!
A second Ring opera is added to Seattle’s repertory.
