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