An imaginative production of a wonderfully magical opera.
A home-grown team of young designers created a gorgeous production of Gluck’s masterpiece.
The Seattle debut of Carol Vaness, a favorite soprano of the Seattle audience.
Explore the 2011/12 Orphee et Eurydice Program!
Explore the 2003/04 Carmen Program!
Offenbach’s masterpiece, in a lovely Gunther Schneider-Siemssen production.
Explore the 1998/99 Faust Program!
Featuring the meltingly honeyed voice of Leo Goeke in the title role.
Ashley Putnam took on all three heroines in this production of Offenbach’s masterpiece.
Verdi’s most ambitious opera came thrillingly to life in this spectacular production.
James McCracken brought down the house!
Check out the production which caused the first-ever Seattle Times opera-related phone-in poll!
Explore the 1980/81 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Explore the 1989/90 The Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Explore the 1973/74 Daughter of the Regiment Program!
A beautiful (and beautifully sung) production of one of the most Romantic French operas.
Joan Sutherland’s Seattle debut!
Explore the 1986/87 Faust Program!
Explore the 1995/96 Carmen Program!
Explore the 2013/14 La Voix Humaine/ Suor Angelica Program!
Seattle’s first French-language opera production!
Discover Seattle Opera and Metropolitan Opera’s co-production of Iphigénie en Tauride, claimed as a rare treasure, debuted in 2007.
This romantic French opera features the popular “Flower Duet” and the “Bell Song,” beloved of coloraturas of yesteryear.
Explore the 2008/09 The Pear Fishers Program!
Explore the 1989/90 Dialogues of the Carmelites Program!
Listen to musical highlights from Donizetti’s charming operetta.
Explore the 1985/86 Manon Program!
Joan Sutherland in a Massenet rarity—also starring the young James Morris!
Explore the 1967/68 Romeo and Juliet Program!
Explore the 1965/66 Samson and Delilah Program!
Explore the 1982/83 Carmen Program!
Mary Costa and Leo Goeke sang Massenet’s unfortunate lovers.
William Burden as Orphée implores the Furies to return his Eurydice to him.
The first performance of Bizet’s classic tale in Seattle Opera history!
The unforgettable Seattle debut of Franco Corelli!
A touring production of Massenet’s tragedy about an ‘emo’ artist.
Listen to Corelli’s stunning “Ah, lève-toi soleil!”
Explore the 1964 Carmen Program!
Explore the 1976/77 Werther Program!
The ultimate tale of obsession unfolds in Bizet’s Carmen.
Explore the 1972/73 Faust Program!
Seattle Opera’s first production of the show featuring opera’s most gorgeous tenor-baritone duet!
Explore the 1987/88 Carmen Program!
Dale Chihuly’s designs matched Debussy’s evocative, translucent music perfectly.
Explore the 1964/65 Faust Program!
Explore the 1970/71 Carmen Program!
Hear Oreste’s mad scene from Gluck masterpiece, in a co-production created with the Met.
Explore the 1974/75 Manon Progarm!
Explore the 1988/89 Werther Program!
Two alluring mezzo-sopranos gave us intensely seductive Carmens.
Explore the 1993/94 The Pearl Fishers Program!
Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 2012 Young Artists Program Werther program!
Explore the 1987/88 Orpheus and Eurydice Program!
Bizet’s exotic bonbon returns, starring William Burden.
Explore the 1993/94 Don Carlos Program!
A seductive production of Carmen that had it all.
A fantastic cast brings Bizet’s stunning opera alive.
Joan Sutherland wowed the opera-goers of Seattle in 1970 by singing all three ladies in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Our powerful first production of this Gluck masterwork.
Explore the 1970/71 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Explore the 2007/08 Iphigenia in Tauris Program!
Hear opera’s ultimate tenor-baritone duet.
Explore the 1996/97 Werther Program!
Starring Norman Treigle as the devil!
Explore the 2011/12 Carmen Program!
Explore the 1977/78 The King of Lahore Program!
This innovative new production turned the stage into a library desktop, complete with giant books, ink wells, and feather pens.
Explore the 1989/90 Daughter of the Regiment Program!
A fascinating double-bill of dark twentieth-century masterpieces.
Our only production of the Poulenc masterpiece.
Harolyn Blackwell’s Seattle Opera debut!
Bizet’s sexy gypsy returns to the main stage!
Erich Parce makes his Seattle Opera debut.
Vinson Cole and Kathryn Gameroni were affectingly romantic as the star-crossed lovers.
Explore the 1999/2000 Lakme Program!
John Relyea’s unforgettable “Hoffmann” villains!
Explore the 1988/89 Romeo and Juliet Program!
Francesca Zambello’s production boasted “theatrical virtues equaled only by a vintage MGM spectacular.”
Explore the 1992/93 Pelléas et Mélisande Program!
Our only performance of this charming operetta.
Explore the 1966/67 Lakme Program!
This colorful and imaginative production will return in May 2014.
YAP’s first ‘black-box’ opera tour!
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Listen to Sutherland and Tourangeau sing the famous “Lakmé” Flower Duet!
Two of opera’s darkest characters blend their voices.
Explore the 2004/05 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Explore the 2008 Young Artists Program Enchanted Child, Gianni Schicchi Program!
Starring Greer Grimsley as the Devil!
Explore the 1972/73 La Perichole Program!
Seattle favorite Dale Duesing starred in the ‘baritone’ version of Massenet’s tragedy.
Explore the 1975/76 Thais Program!
Explore the 2006 Young Artists Program The Tragedy of Carmen Program!
Explore the 1979/80 Faust Program!
