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