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