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