Seattle Opera’s first-ever performance at UW’s Meany Hall!

The Young Artists take on Rossini’s Cinderella!

Tenor and baritone fight—not for the soprano’s love, but to escape her!

Seattle Opera’s only production of this tuneful comedy.

Cinderella—as Seattle Opera had never seen her before!

Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!

A wholly Shakespearean production of Verdi’s great comedy.

Drag, disguise, and dummies make Die Fledermaus one of the world’s most popular operettas!

An old fool makes the mistake of a lifetime when he marries a pretty young thing.

Images highlighting 1991’s Ariadne of Naxos

A ‘Just Add Water’ Così that toured the state in the fall of 2009.

Seattle Opera’s first production of Verdi’s comic Shakespearean masterpiece.

Sir Geraint Evans returns!

The first Young Artists Program opera directed by Peter Kazaras!

A Cinderella comedy without the glass slipper–but with a hilariously pompous stepfather and a rogue servant.

Puccini’s great comedy in a brilliant YAP production!

A lively production of Rossini’s great comedy.

A huge cast assembled for Strauss’s great comedy.

Seattle Opera’s first-ever performance of Mozart’s intriguing comedy.

Starring Kaaren Erickson as Susanna.

Colorful production of audience favorite featuring new sets by Seattle Opera and memorable costumes from Zandra Rhodes.

The world’s first opera buffa, toured around Washington by the Young Artists.

The world’s favorite operetta, starring several popular television stars of the day.

A double-cast production: soprano Sarah Coburn performed Rosina one and mezzo Kate Lindsey in the other!

Peter Kazaras’ lively staging featured Mariusz Kwiecien heading up a colorful cast of characters.

A lovesick dope wins the help of his special lady with a magic love potion that’s really cheap red wine.

Our only performance of this charming operetta.

“I think this is getting too silly!”

Who says Wagner singers are no fun?

An adorable young cast in Mozart’s whirligig comedy.

An amusing production of Mozart’s beloved comedy.

Starring Dale Duesing as Eisenstein!

Chris Alexander’s first award-winning production.

Mamma knows best…not!

Young love triumphs over aged tyranny in this most popular of opera comedies.

Images highlighting 1990’s Gianni Schicchi

Maurice Sendak’s beautiful production of Mozart’s fairy-tale.

Donizetti’s charming comedy about a magic bottle of wine.

Mozart’s problem comedy—with a time machine!

The first Seattle Opera appearance of the appealing Mary Costa.

Seattle’s first completely comic opera!

A unique revival in which the alternating Rosinas were performed by different voice types.

Richard Stilwell, Sheri Greenawald, Vinson Cole and others starred in Mozart’s thought-provoking comedy.

Cinderella comes to Seattle Opera for the first time.

Régine Crespin’s Seattle Opera appearance!

Mozart’s beloved comedy performed by an adorable young cast.

Our only production of Verdi’s ‘other’ comedy.

Our colorful first production of the Strauss-Hofmannsthal charmer!

Starring June Anderson as Rosina!

Beloved mezzo Frederica von Stade’s only Seattle Opera appearance!

Jonathan Miller’s startlingly contemporary production.

Mirth and madness from the master of operatic mayhem!

Angels aloft! And sliding down a giant playground slide in this familiar fairy-tale.

A great accomplishment by Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program.

The second Seattle Opera staging of Verdi’s final opera was directed by Shakespearean veteran Chris Alexander.

A lively Young Artists production of Mozart’s comedy.

Harolyn Blackwell’s Seattle Opera debut!

A sumptuous production of Richard Strauss’s most popular opera.

Seattle Opera’s first production of Mozart’s great fairy-tale.

Our Young Artists rise to the challenge of Britten’s Shakespeare!

Donizetti’s cautionary tale about an old man with a young wife.