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