Watch Director’s Talk Video with Peter Kazaras
Patricia Racette starred in this heart-breakingly beautiful production.
Hear the gorgeous trio from “Così fan tutte” sung by three of our favorite singers.
More than 8,000 Seattelites enjoyed Madama Butterfly on the night of our first-ever Simulcast!
Listen to the 2012/13 YAPs celebrating Verdi in style!
Colorful production of audience favorite featuring new sets by Seattle Opera and memorable costumes from Zandra Rhodes.
A home-grown team of young designers created a gorgeous production of Gluck’s masterpiece.
Some of the most joyously noisy music in all opera!
Explore the 2012/13 Turandot Program!
Explore the 2012/13 Fidelio Program!
A Fellini-style Don Giovanni starring a hot group of young artists.
Peter Kazaras directs Rossini’s popular comedy!
A rousing overture from the master of Italian opera.
Explore the 2009/10 La Traviata Program!
Explore the 2011/12 Madama Butterfly Program!
Photos from Seattle Opera’s first production of the decade.
Our liveliest production yet of this great comedy!
A wholly Shakespearean production of Verdi’s great comedy.
A great accomplishment by Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program.
A stunning production of Puccini’s grandest opera with an all-star cast.
This innovative new production turned the stage into a library desktop, complete with giant books, ink wells, and feather pens.
Explore the 2010/11 The Magic Flute Program!
Explore the 2009/10 Falstaff Program!
The Seattle debut of Christiane Libor, with Greer Grimsley as a delicious villain.
YAP moved to UW’s Meany Hall for this lively comedy.
The Young Artists’ only German-language production!
The orchestra mourns the death of a fallen hero.
Our only production of Verdi’s ‘other’ comedy.
Antonello Palombi sings one of opera’s most beloved arias.
Explore the 2011 Young Artists Program Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 2010/11 The Barber of Seville Program!
Explore the 2012/13 Cinderella Program!
A minimalist new production directed by Peter Kazaras that was inspired in part from the Ambrose Bierce short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
Our Young Artists saluted Giuseppe Verdi in style for his bicentennial!
A double-cast production: soprano Sarah Coburn performed Rosina one and mezzo Kate Lindsey in the other!
The most familiar music from Wagner’s RING!
Hear Asher Fisch conduct the TRISTAN Prelude!
Watch Video: Music with Maestro Asher Fisch
The first commission under Speight Jenkins’ leadership.
Explore the 2011/12 Carmen Program!
Listen to “My man’s gone now”!
Seattle Opera’s first home-grown production of the greatest American opera.
Watch a Video Excerpt
Explore the 2013 Ring Program!
Explore the 2010 Young Artists Program Ariadne Auf Naxos Program!
Explore the 2012/13 La Boheme Program!
Explore the 2009/10 Il Trovatore Program!
Wagner’s mighty epic performed for–and by!–kids all over Washington State.
Aleksandra Kurzak sings Lucia’s Mad Scene!
Explore the 2011/12 Orphee et Eurydice Program!
Explore the 2011/12 Attila Program!
Explore the 2013/14 La Voix Humaine/ Suor Angelica Program!
Explore the 2011/12 Porgy and Bess Program!
Explore the 2010/11 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Explore the 2009/10 Amelia Program!
Listen to highlights from Strauss’s outrageous tragicomedy.
The announcement of Seattle Opera’s third General Director.
Explore the 2013 Young Artists Program King for a Day program!
Mamma knows best…not!
Listen to musical highlights from Donizetti’s charming operetta.
A unique revival in which the alternating Rosinas were performed by different voice types.
Hear the luscious voice of a great mezzo singing the role she created.
Not a dry eye in the house at the end of this gorgeous production.
Explore the 2010 Young Artists Program Viva la Mamma! Program!
A fascinating double-bill of dark twentieth-century masterpieces.
William Burden as Orphée implores the Furies to return his Eurydice to him.
Seattle Opera’s beautiful world premiere from 2010.
New production featured a repurposed set from 2008’s “I PURITANI”.
A fantastic young American soprano created the role of the heroine’s namesake in Amelia.
Explore the 2012 Young Artists Program Werther program!
A touring production of Massenet’s tragedy about an ‘emo’ artist.
Explore the 2010/11 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Cinderella—as Seattle Opera had never seen her before!
A memorable voice in a powerful role.
Hear the German soprano who triumphed at Seattle Opera recently in Fidelio.
Listen to highlights from this effervescent Rossini comedy!
Seattle Opera’s stirring production of this Verdi rarity.
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Seattle Opera’s first-ever performance at UW’s Meany Hall!
A favorite soprano singing a wild aria.
Operatic fun for everyone in a colorful Cinderella!
Two alluring mezzo-sopranos gave us intensely seductive Carmens.
Listen to some of Mozart’s greatest music, from performances in 1999 and 2011.
Explore the 2012 Young Artists Program Don Pasquale Program!
Explore the 2013 Young Artists Program Viva Verdi Program!
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
