Explore the 1978/79 Macbeth Program!
Marius Kwiecien sings the Champagne Aria!
Listen to Sutherland and Tourangeau sing the famous “Lakmé” Flower Duet!
A lovesick girl sings rhapsodies about a fantasy of the man she adores.
Who says Wagner singers are no fun?
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
Explore the 1965/66 La Boheme Program!
Explore the 1971/72 A Masked Ball Program!
Explore the 1965/66 Il trovatore Program!
Explore the 1966/67 Lakme Program!
Mirth and madness from the master of operatic mayhem!
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
Stephanie Blythe curses Verdi’s priests.
Superstar tenor required! Ben Heppner was the first Andrea Chénier at Seattle Opera since Franco Corelli in 1968.
James McCracken brought down the house!
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
One of our favorite baritones sings Alberich’s curse.
Listen to highlights from Mozart’s perfect opera.
Veteran Carol Vaness paired with emerging newcomer Jay Hunter Morris in this rarely presented Puccini tragedy.
Local favorites Vinson Cole, Sally Wolf, and Dale Duesing took on Puccini’s bohemians.
Our powerful first production of this Gluck masterwork.
Explore the 1967/68 Romeo and Juliet 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.”
“Death with honor before life with dishonor!” A strong production of Puccini’s great tragedy.
Anna Moffo’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 1978/79 Don Giovanni Program!
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Fiorenza Cossotto stole the show with “O don fatale.”
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 1968/69 Andrea Chenier Program!
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
Explore the 1967/68 Otello Program!
Patricia Racette starred in this heart-breakingly beautiful production.
Explore the 1982/83 Peter Grimes Program!
New production featured a repurposed set from 2008’s “I PURITANI”.
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
Peter Kazaras’ lively staging featured Mariusz Kwiecien heading up a colorful cast of characters.
Explore the 1995/96 Andrea Chenier Program!
Starring Seattle Opera’s first African-American singer!
Explore the 1965/66 Samson and Delilah Program!
Explore the 1971/72 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Jane Eaglen stars in Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio 2002.
Renee Fleming made her Seattle Opera debut in one of her greatest roles.
Starring Greer Grimsley as the Devil!
The climax of Don Magnifico’s ridiculous “dream” aria.
Starring future Artist-of-the-Year winners Lawrence Brownlee and Mary Elizabeth Williams!
Explore the 1973/74 Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci Program!
Hear opera’s ultimate tenor-baritone duet.
Enter a frozen world ruled by a harsh ice princess–at your own risk!
Erich Parce makes his Seattle Opera debut.
The ultimate tale of obsession unfolds in Bizet’s Carmen.
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Dorothy Kirsten’s Seattle appearance.
A beautiful (and beautifully sung) production of one of the most Romantic French operas.
Explore the 1964/65 Boris Godunov Program!
Explore the 1968/69 Tosca Program!
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
as told by Julian Patrick
A spectacular cast and walls that dripped blood made for a thrilling night of Verdi and Shakespeare.
This innovative new production turned the stage into a library desktop, complete with giant books, ink wells, and feather pens.
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
Hear the gorgeous trio from “Così fan tutte” sung by three of our favorite singers.
The career of an artist who gave much to Seattle Opera.
A stylish, sexy production of what’s been called the ‘perfect’ opera.
Hear the German soprano who triumphed at Seattle Opera recently in Fidelio.
A lively production of Rossini’s great comedy.
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
A double-cast production: soprano Sarah Coburn performed Rosina one and mezzo Kate Lindsey in the other!
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
A serenade gone hilariously wrong!
Joan Sutherland wowed the opera-goers of Seattle in 1970 by singing all three ladies in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”
William Burden as Orphée implores the Furies to return his Eurydice to him.
Chris Alexander’s first award-winning production.
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Bizet’s sexy gypsy returns to the main stage!
Explore the 1967/68 Don Giovanni Program!
One performance, one role, two tenors!
Joan Sutherland in a Massenet rarity—also starring the young James Morris!
Beverly Sills sang Lucia in Seattle.
The Seattle Opera debut of Julian Patrick!
Aleksandra Kurzak sings Lucia’s Mad Scene!
Two of opera’s darkest characters blend their voices.
Giovanni Martinelli’s one Seattle Opera appearance!
“The jaws of hell gape wide and swallow all of creation” in some of Verdi’s most powerful music.
This colorful and imaginative production will return in May 2014.
A penguin-crocodile, floating coloratura queen, and befeathered Nathan Gunn delighted audiences in this final production of the millenium.
Speight remembers his first great success with the RING.
Explore the 1984/85 Ballad of Baby Doe Program!
Explore the 1987/88 Orpheus and Eurydice Program!
None who were there will ever forget Jane Eaglen’s stunning Seattle Opera debut!
A great star, but a compromised performance!
Explore the 1981/82 Die Fledermaus Program!
Hear the three great voices of the rescheduled Tosca after the earthquake.
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
Explore the 1972/73 La Traviata Program!
Sherrill Milnes’s Seattle Opera debut!
Joan Sutherland returned to Seattle as Donna Anna.
Listen to some of the silliest music in all opera!
The second Seattle Opera staging of Verdi’s final opera was directed by Shakespearean veteran Chris Alexander.
as told by Hans Lehmann
Explore the 2010/11 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Explore the 1968/69 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Images highlighting 1991’s Anna Bolena
Our liveliest production yet of this great comedy!
Seattle Opera’s only production of Tchaikovsky’s Pushkin-inspired tragedy.
Seattle’s first completely comic opera!
Check out the production which caused the first-ever Seattle Times opera-related phone-in poll!
When Stravinsky and Basil Rathbone appeared at Seattle Opera!
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
The stunning debut of one of our favorite sopranos!
Starring Dale Duesing, Peter Kazaras, Judith Haddon, and Geri Decker.
Beverly Sills’ only Mimì!
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
This romantic French opera features the popular “Flower Duet” and the “Bell Song,” beloved of coloraturas of yesteryear.
Patricia Racette in her Seattle debut.
Hear an astonishing “Si, pel ciel” from a great American tenor!
Seattle Opera’s beautiful world premiere from 2010.
Sally Wolf won Artist of the Year this season for her extraordinary Lucia.
Our unforgettable War and Peace celebrated the end of the Cold War.
A lovesick dope wins the help of his special lady with a magic love potion that’s really cheap red wine.
Young love triumphs over aged tyranny in this most popular of opera comedies.
A unique revival in which the alternating Rosinas were performed by different voice types.
Verdi’s most ambitious opera came thrillingly to life in this spectacular production.
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Explore the 1966/67 Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Program!
The world’s first ‘rock opera’ was Bette Midler’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
Listen to Sally Wolf’s award-winning LUCIA Mad Scene!
Explore the 1977/78 The King of Lahore Program!
Explore the 1964/65 Lucia di Lammermoor Program!
Renée Fleming’s debut as Dvořák’s little mermaid.
Beloved mezzo Frederica von Stade’s only Seattle Opera appearance!
Franco Corelli at Seattle Opera.
Hear the performance that won Ben Heppner’s the Artist-of-the-Year Award!
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
Listen to Corelli’s stunning “Ah, lève-toi soleil!”
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Three of Seattle’s favorite superstar singers braved the Nisqually earthquake during the run of this Puccini thriller.
Jon Vickers as Britten’s tragic fisherman misfit.
Explore the 1990/91 Rusalka Program!
John Relyea’s unforgettable “Hoffmann” villains!
Composed in 1996, this evocative production debuted in Seattle in 1998. It proved so popular it was revived only 7 years later.
Explore the 1966/67 The Barber of Seville Program!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Régine Crespin’s Seattle Opera appearance!
Explore the 1970/71 Tales of Hoffmann Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
Seattle Opera’s first Traviata wasn’t ours at all—it came from the Met.
Peter Kazaras directs Rossini’s popular comedy!
Two spectacular voices, early in their careers, brought an unknown masterpiece to Seattle.
Explore the 1980/81 Aida Program!
Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
Hear Ewa Podles’s award-winning Adalgisa!
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
Nilsson as the Ice Princess.
Explore the 1990/91 Anna Bolena Program!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Explore the 1964/65 Rigoletto Program!
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Watch clips from Seattle Opera’s monumental production from the Goodwill Games!
Explore the 1990/91 War and Peace Program!
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
Hear the luscious voice of a great mezzo singing the role she created.
Seattle Opera’s first production of the show featuring opera’s most gorgeous tenor-baritone duet!
“I think this is getting too silly!”
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
Explore the 2009/10 Amelia Program!
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
Seven magic bullets consecrated to the devil wreak havoc in this, the original German Romantic opera.
Listen to some of Verdi’s bubbliest music.
Roberta Peters was Seattle Opera’s first Lucia.
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
Explore the 1969/70 Turandot Program!
Explore the 1993/94 Norma Program!
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
A starry production of Verdi’s great melodrama.
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Joan Sutherland’s Seattle debut!
A wholly Shakespearean production of Verdi’s great comedy.
