“The jaws of hell gape wide and swallow all of creation” in some of Verdi’s most powerful music.
The world’s first opera buffa, toured around Washington by the Young Artists.
Ewa Podles receives the artist of the year award in 2003’s production of Norma.
Chris Alexander’s first award-winning production.
Explore the 2007/08 Tosca Program!
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 2003/04 Ariadne auf Naxos Program!
Listen to a clip from Perry Lorenzo’s famous RING lectures!
The last opera produced in the old Seattle Opera House.
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
Patricia Racette in her Seattle debut.
Stephanie Blythe curses Verdi’s priests.
From the 2009 Ring
Hear the lively conclusion to Verdi’s great comedy.
“Out, damn spot…out, I say!”
Explore the 2005/06 Die Fledermaus Program!
One of opera’s best-loved love duets.
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Listen to one of Verdi’s most popular tunes!
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Explore the 2001 Young Artists Program La Cenerentola Program!
The first opera of the new century showcased the chorus in their leading role as the people of Russia.
The people of Russia acclaim their new Tsar–but strange harmonies in the clanging bells warn us that all is not well.
The earliest opera yet presented by Seattle Opera.
This colorful and imaginative production will return in May 2014.
Tenor and baritone fight—not for the soprano’s love, but to escape her!
Explore the 2005/06 Macbeth Program!
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
Explore the 2003 Young Artists Program La Boheme Program!
Hear the winners of our International Wagner Competitions!
Explore the 2000/01 Tosca Program!
Explore the 2000 Young Artists Program Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 2006 Young Artists Program The Tragedy of Carmen Program!
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
Explore the 2009 Young Artists Program Cosi Fan Tutte Program!
One performance, one role, two tenors!
Hear the three great voices of the rescheduled Tosca after the earthquake.
Explore the 2001/02 Salome Program!
The making of the Ring
Listen to highlights from Mozart’s perfect opera.
Explore the 2005 Young Artists Program Marriage of Figaro Program!
Three-minute complilation of footage from the final dress rehearsal of 2009’s DAS RHEINGOLD.
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
Greer Grimsley stars as the perfect villain!
Explore the 2008/09 Elektra Program!
The first Young Artists Program opera directed by Peter Kazaras!
Hear audience laughter drowning out Mozart’s music!
Hear a Verdi duet of heartbreaking beauty.
Explore the 2008/09 The Marriage of Figaro Program!
Britten’s Shakespeare, set in a magical boarding school!
Explore the 2001/02 Madama Butterfly Program!
The first of three Verdi operas featured in our 2009/10 season.
From the 2009 Ring cycle performances
The Making of the Ring
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
Explore the 2006/07 L’Italiana in Algeri Program!
Explore the 2008/09 Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung Program!
Explore the 2003/04 Carmen Program!
Speight remembers consecrating McCaw Hall with Wagner’s most Wagnerian opera.
Explore the 2001/02 Un ballo in maschera Program!
Explore the 2006/07 Julius Caesar in Egypt Program!
Explore the 2003/04 Girl of the West Program!
Explore the 2006/07 La Boheme Program!
Explore the 2006/07 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Enchanted Child, Gianni Schicchi Program!
Explore the 2006 Young Artists Program The Turn of the Screw Program!
A beautifully haunting production of Britten’s ghost story.
Revival of 1995 production updating the action to Mussolini’s Italy.
Explore the 2001/02 Rusalka Program!
This fascinating double-bill won its director Artist of the Year.
Explore the 2008/09 The Pear Fishers Program!
Hear Ewa Podles’s award-winning Adalgisa!
Listen to Asher Fisch conduct overwhelming music from the first show in McCaw Hall!
Starring future Artist-of-the-Year winners Lawrence Brownlee and Mary Elizabeth Williams!
Wagner’s mighty epic performed for–and by!–kids all over Washington State.
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Tatyana’s Letter Program!
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
John Relyea’s unforgettable “Hoffmann” villains!
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
Puccini’s iconic tragedy, a staple of operatic performance, is performed for eager audiences.
Explore the 2002/03 Don Pasquale Program!
Young love triumphs over aged tyranny in this most popular of opera comedies.
Explore the 2000/01 Billy Budd Program!
The first Jake Heggie opera performed at Seattle Opera.
Explore the 2004 Young Artists Program Cosi fan tutte Program!
Explore the 2005/06 Cosi fan tutte Program!
Listen to some of Verdi’s bubbliest music.
History of our costume shop!
Three of our favorite singers starred in this Verdi masterpiece.
Explore the 2009/10 Falstaff Program!
Jonathan Miller’s startlingly contemporary production.
Based on the Eugene O’Neill play, and revised by the composer for Seattle Opera’s production.
“I think this is getting too silly!”
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Trouble in Tahiti & Rita Program!
Explore the 2004/05 Rigoletto Program!
Bizet’s exotic bonbon returns, starring William Burden.
Explore the 2009/10 La Traviata Program!
Part one of our series previewing 2009 RING Cycle focused on the artists involved and their rehearsal process.
A ‘Just Add Water’ Così that toured the state in the fall of 2009.
Explore the 2007 Young Artists Program Falstaff Program!
Conducted by Gerard Schwarz, this opera stretched Mercer Arts Arena to the acoustic limits.
An imaginative production of a wonderfully magical opera.
The Young Artists take on Rossini’s Cinderella!
Grief, revenge, and murder… Explore Strauss’s Elektra!
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
Three of Seattle’s favorite superstar singers braved the Nisqually earthquake during the run of this Puccini thriller.
Nuccia Focile’s debut with Seattle Opera signing the title role, Tatyana, in Eugene Onegin
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
Explore the 1999/2000 Barber of Seville Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Falstaff Program!
Explore the 2009 Young Artists Program A Midsummer Night’s Dream Program!
Love at first candle lighting.
Listen to a great Russian bass who shared his country’s greatest opera with Seattle.
Explore the 2007/08 Pagliacci Program!
Explore the 1999/2000 Lakme Program!
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
Explore the 2002/03 Norma Program!
The ultimate tale of obsession unfolds in Bizet’s Carmen.
Explore the 2004/05 Manon Lescaut Program!
When a vocal cover is not enough…
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Mayor Greg Nickels honored Speight’s 25th with a proclamation.
Explore the 2005/06 The End of the Affair Program!
An old fool makes the mistake of a lifetime when he marries a pretty young thing.
YAP’s first ‘black-box’ opera tour!
Who says Wagner singers are no fun?
Listen to some of the silliest music in all opera!
The twin casts of Speight Jenkins’ Seattle Opera.
Jane Eaglen stars in Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio 2002.
Grade-schoolers performing side-by-side with Seattle Opera Young Artists!
Explore the 2007/08 Iphigenia in Tauris Program!
A lovesick girl sings rhapsodies about a fantasy of the man she adores.
From 2009 Ring cycle performances.
Explore the 2004/05 Florencia in the Amazon Program!
Hear Oreste’s mad scene from Gluck masterpiece, in a co-production created with the Met.
Hear Christopher Maltman sing his award-winning Billy Budd!
The second Seattle Opera staging of Verdi’s final opera was directed by Shakespearean veteran Chris Alexander.
Explore the 2004/05 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Both comedy and tragedy are found in Pagliacci, but laughter turns to tears in this Seattle Opera production 2008.
Artist of the Year Winner Stephanie Blythe wows in Aida.
A lively Young Artists production of Mozart’s comedy.
The earliest composed opera performed by Seattle Opera.
A stylish, sexy production of what’s been called the ‘perfect’ opera.
Peter Kazaras’ lively staging featured Mariusz Kwiecien heading up a colorful cast of characters.
Explore the 2009/10 Il Trovatore Program!
Our Young Artists rise to the challenge of Britten’s Shakespeare!
Explore the 2003/04 Mourning Becomes Electra Program!
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Peter Kazaras’s brilliant production is born.
Puccini’s great comedy in a brilliant YAP production!
A spectacular cast and walls that dripped blood made for a thrilling night of Verdi and Shakespeare.
A powerfully effective chamber version of Eugene Onegin.
Explore the 2002/03 Eugene Onegin Program!
Explore the 1999/2000 Boris Godunov Program!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
Veteran Carol Vaness paired with emerging newcomer Jay Hunter Morris in this rarely presented Puccini tragedy.
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
Explore the 1999/2000 Der Freischutz Program!
Explore the 1999/2000 Magic Flute Program
A touring production of Bernstein’s American masterpiece.
The unseen heroes who bring it all together!
Marius Kwiecien sings the Champagne Aria!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Explore the 2002/03 Fidelio Program!
The Young Artists played Puccini’s beloved tragedy against Impressionist imagery.
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Explore the 2008/09 Aida Program!
